Former US Senator Judd Gregg, Google executive and former Vermont gubernatorial candidate Matthew Dunne, and three physician leaders have been appointed to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Board of Trustees, Board Chair Prof. Robert A Oden Jr announced today.
‘ While Dartmouth-Hitchcock is rapidly becoming a national leader in the changes to health care, our highest priority is still the patients of our region,’ said Oden. ‘ These new additions to our board give us the best of both: a wide range of knowledge and experience at the national and regional level, and an intimate knowledge of our institution, including its people and its patients.’
‘ As we work to create a sustainable health system that is value-driven and focused on the health of our communities, the role of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Board of Trustees is critical,’ said Dartmouth-Hitchcock CEO and President Dr. James N. Weinstein. ‘ I am so pleased to have Senator Gregg and Mr. Dunne, and Drs. Paris, Powell, and Rothstein add their vision, experience, and innovative thinking to our deliberations and strategic discussions.’
The new trustees include:
Hon. Judd Gregg - Senator Gregg has spent over three decades in public office, most recently serving as the United States Senator from the State of New Hampshire from January 1993 until January 2011. During his tenure in the Senate, Senator Gregg served on a number of key Senate Committees including Budget; Appropriations; Government Affairs; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Commerce, Science and Transportation; Foreign Relations; and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. He has served as the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee as well as chairman of various sub-committees.
Senator Gregg served as a chief negotiator of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and was the lead sponsor of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, and, along with the late Senator Ted Kennedy, co-authored the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
In March 2010, Senator Gregg was appointed to President Obama’ s bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
From 1989 to 1993, Senator Gregg was the Governor of New Hampshire and prior to that was a U.S. Representative from 1981 to 1989. He is also a director of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.
Matthew Dunne - Dunne has focused his life's work on bringing together the worlds of entrepreneurship, service and politics. Elected to the Vermont House at the age of 22, he served seven years before joining the Clinton administration as the Director of AmeriCorps*VISTA overseeing 6000 full-time people working in the fight against poverty.
In 2002 he returned home to Vermont and was elected to two terms in the Vermont Senate. Outside of the legislature, he worked in high-tech marketing and before joining Google was the Associate Director of the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, creating programs to support students who wish to pursue careers in the nonprofit and public sector.
Now the Head of Community Affairs at Google, Matt supports all aspects of the company's local corporate social responsibility activities in communities where Google has an office or data center as well as helping guide larger corporate partnerships with the nonprofit and public sector. He was a Democratic candidate for Vermont governor in 2010, a race ultimately won by Peter Shumlin.
Steven A. Paris, MD ‘ Dr. Paris is the Medical Director of Dartmouth-Hitchcock ‘ Manchester. He received his AB from Harvard University and his medical degree from Duke University Medical School. He completed his pediatric training at Children’ s Hospital of Philadelphia. Steve has been in pediatric practice since 1977 and has been Board Certified since 1979.
Dr. Paris has over 30 years of experience in the medical management of multispecialty group practices. He has special experience in health plan negotiations and risk contracts, implementation and planning or electronic systems, hospital and medical group mergers and affiliations and creating new ways for access to care for vulnerable populations.
Dr. Paris is very involved in community activities and affairs. He is a current member of the Granite United Way, the Healthy Manchester Leadership Committee, the Manchester Sustainable Action Project, the Child Health Services board, and the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. He is a past president of the Child Health Services board, past chair and member of the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester, past vice chair of the Heritage United Way, a past member of Leadership NH, and a past chair of the Granite United Way.
Richard J. Powell, MD - Dr. Powell is the Section Chief of Vascular Surgery and Professor of Surgery and Radiology at Geisel School of Medicine. He has been a member of the DHMC Board of Governors since 2008. He completed his medical degree at Medical College of Wisconsin in 1986. His Residency in General Surgery was completed at New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ in 1992. This was followed by a fellowship in Vascular Surgery at DHMC from 1992-1994. Following completion of his fellowship Dr. Powell was an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Yale Medical School until his return to DHMC in 1997. Upon his return to DHMC, He directed the Vascular Surgery Basic Science Program until assuming the role of Section Chief in 2007. He is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Hitchcock Foundation.
Dr. Powell’ s research interests center on the minimally invasive treatment of vascular disease. He has published numerous manuscripts on the use of stent grafts and hybrid operative approaches in the treatment of patients with peripheral vascular disease. He has been or is currently the National or International Principle Investigator on multiple Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Therapy clinical trials, including the first in human use of HGF gene therapy to treat patients with critical limb ischemia. He has had NIH funding continuously since 1997 and has served as a member on multiple NIH study sections. He has chaired the Research Council and Clinical Research Committee for the Society of Vascular Surgery.
Over the last four years Dr. Powell has led efforts within the Section of Vascular Surgery to use process improvement techniques in the development of care pathways for complex vascular surgery procedures. This has resulted in streamlined approaches to patient care and incorporation of evidence based algorithms that also factor cost into implant selection. This work has resulted in improved patient satisfaction, maintenance of high quality outcomes and substantial reductions in cost. This has also become a central theme of the section and has been incorporated into the section’ s academic portfolio as well as resident and fellow educational programs.
Richard I. Rothstein, MD ‘ Dr. Rothstein returns to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Trustees, serving now as the Chair of the Department of Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. He is the Joseph M. Huber Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is also a Professor of Surgery and serves as the Associate Dean for Continuing Education.
He is a graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine (1980), and did his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, MA (1980-1983). He pursued his fellowship training in Gastroenterology at DHMC (1983-1985), joining Geisel’ s faculty in 1985.
Dr. Rothstein was Director of Gastroenterological Research and Director of the Gastrointestinal Motility Lab before becoming the Section Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 1997, a position he held for 15 years. He was an elected member of the D-H Board of Governors and was previously on the D-H Board of Trustees until his appointment as Chair of Medicine in 2012.
In 2012 he became an inaugural member of the Academy of Faculty Master Educators at the Geisel School of Medicine. He participates actively in national and international educational programs concerning current and future endoscopic technologies. He has been consistently funded in his research efforts for over 28 years and has continuously published papers, chapters and abstracts in his areas of interest.
With their appointments, Gregg, Dunne, Paris, Powell, and Rothstein join current Dartmouth-Hitchcock Board members:
· William A. Abdu, MD, MS
· William J. Conaty
· Vincent S. Conti
· Denis A. Cortese, MD
· Barbara Couch
· Peter A. DeLong, MD
· Michael J. Goran, MD
· Wayne G. Granquist
· Alfred L. Griggs
· William W. Helman
· Alan C. Keiller
· Laura K. Landy
· Jennie L. Norman
· Robert Oden, Jr., PhD
· Richard S. Shreve
· Hugh C. Smith, MD
· Wiley "Chip" W. Souba, MD, ScD
· Anne-Lee Verville
· James N. Weinstein, DO, MS
ABOUT DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK: Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a national leader in patient-centered health care and building a sustainable health system. Founded in 1893, the system includes New Hampshire’ s only Level 1 trauma center and its only air ambulance service, as well as the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, one of only 40 National Center Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the nation, and the Children’ s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, the state’ s only Children’ s Hospital Association-approved, comprehensive, full-service children's hospital. As an academic medical center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock provides access to nearly 1,000 primary care doctors and specialists in almost every area of medicine, as well as world-class research at the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.