Activities

Fall Term 2023

Medical & Graduate Student Panel

  • Geisel and Cancer Biology Student Speaker

Infusion Center Tour

  • Beth Riendeau and Matthew Clem

Immunology and Cancer Part I

  • Steven Fiering, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Diagnostics

  • Joshua Levy, PhD, Assistant Professor in both the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (DPLM)

Colon Cancer Treatment and Prevention

  • Audrey Calderwood, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine

Spring Term 2023

Rural Health Care Delivery and Cancer – Good Neighbor Health Clinic

  • Peter Mason, MD

Hyperbaric Medicine

  • Jay Buckey, MD, Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth

Demystifying Clinical Trials

  • Erin Lynch, MS, CCRP, Office of Clinical Research

Immunology and Cancer Part I

  • Steven Fiering, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Winter Term 2023

Graduate Student Panel Talk

  • Cancer Biology Graduate Students

Cancer Center Annual Retreat

Entrepreneurship and Biotech

  • Barry Schweitzer

Big Data and Precision Medicine

  • Parth Shah, MD

Global Oncology - Rwanda

  • Mary Chamberlin, MD

Fall Term 2022

Animals in Research – tour

  • Karen Moodie, DVM, Research Assistant Professor, Geisel

Center for Surgical Innovation – tour

  • John Peiffer, Managing Director Center for Surgical Innovation and the Advanced Imaging Center, Geisel

4th Year Students’ Perspectives on Medical School

  • Thomas Flynn III and Charlene Dunaway Altamirano, Geisel

A Career as a Clinician – Investigator

  • Rodwell Mabaera, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Geisel

MYC and CRISPR

  • Michael Cole, PhD, Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel

Spring Term 2022

Management of a Large Cancer Enterprise

  • Amy Stansfield, RN, MBA, Director, Hematology/Oncology

Ethics in Oncology Treatment

  • Gary Schwartz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Clinical Pathology

  • Jacqueline Hubbard, PhD, Clinical Chemistry
  • Robert Nerenz, PhD, Clinical Chemistry

Gynecologic Oncology

  • Ivy Wilkinson-Ryan, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Families and Treatment Planning in Pediatric Oncology

  • Bonnie Lau, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Treatment of Sarcomas

  • Eric Henderson, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics

Winter Term 2022

Welcome to the Cancer Center – tour

  • Steven D. Leach, MD, Director of Dartmouth Cancer Center

Surgical Oncology

  • Andrew Loehrer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Surgery and of The Dartmouth Institute

Community Flu Clinic and Cancer Screening – Volunteer Opportunity at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

High-risk HPV and Cervical Cancer in Honduras

  • Gregory Tsongalis, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Jamie Fenton ’21, intern with Dartmouth Opportunities in Oncology Research

The Jack Byrne Center for Palliative Care – tour

  • Ruth Thomson, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Epidemiology of Cancer and Environmental Exposures

  • Megan Romano, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Fall Term 2021

Rural Health Care Delivery and Cancer – Good Neighbor Health Clinic

  • Peter Mason, MD

Hyperbaric Medicine

  • Jay Buckey, MD, Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth

Demystifying Clinical Trials

  • Erin Lynch, MS, CCRP, Office of Clinical Research

Immunology and Cancer Part I

  • Steven Fiering, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Translational Oncology and Immunology

  • P. Jack Hoopes, DVM, Professor of Surgery; and of Medicine, Geisel

Surgical Oncology

  • Andrew Loehrer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Surgery and of The Dartmouth Institute

Spring Term 2021

Exercise as a Therapeutic Adjuvant

  • Keri Schadler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, MD Anderson Cancer Center

The Work of a Hematology Oncologist

  • Gary N. Schwartz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel

Prostate Surgery

  • John D. Seigne, MB, BCh, Associate Professor of Surgery

The First Year of Medical School

  • Edel Auh and Matthew Y. Jiang, Medical Students, Geisel

DNA Sequencing and Genomics

  • Craig R Tomlinson, PhD, Research Scientist, Associate Director for Shared Resources, Dartmouth Cancer Center

Blood and Marrow Transplant

  • John M. Hill, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel

Dose Planning in Radiation Oncology

  • Benjamin B. Williams, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and of Radiology, Geisel

Winter Term 2021

Adolescents and High-Risk Behaviors Including Tobacco Use

  • James Sargent, MD, Professor of Pediatrics

Radiation Oncology – tour

  • Bassem Zaki, MD, Associate Professor Medicine

Pharmacology and Chemotherapy

  • Meenakshi Shelat, Pharm D, Oncology Pharmacist, Dartmouth Cancer Center

Cancer Screening in Primary Care

  • Robert Kelly, MD, MPH, Primary Care Physician, Core Physicians in Exeter

Fellowship Training in Oncology

  • Dartmouth Cancer Center Hematology-Oncology Fellows

Single Cell Sequencing

  • Fred Kolling IV, PhD, Research Scientist, Co-Director of Genomics and Molecular Biology Shared Resource, Dartmouth Cancer Center

Fall Term 2020

Immunology and Cancer Part I

  • Steven Fiering, PhD - Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Demystifying Clinical Trials

  • Erin Lynch, MS, CCRP – Office of Clinical Research

Clinical Oncology and Research

  • Gabriel Arne Brooks, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute, Geisel

Precision Medicine and the Molecular Tumor Board

  • Todd W Miller, PhD, Scientific Director of the Comprehensive Breast Program, Dartmouth Cancer Center, Associate Director of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel

Exercise as a Therapeutic Adjuvant

  • Keri Schadler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Clinical Genomics and Advanced Testing – tour

  • Joel Leffert, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Geisel

Spring Term 2020

Working Near Wuhan China in January 2020

  • Mark Spaller, PhD, Chemistry

Being in Medical School

  • Matthew Jiang ‘17 and Edel Auh ‘18, students at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Scientific Writing

  • Kathleen Lyons, ScD, Psychiatry

Preparation and Application to Medical School

  • Yichen Zhang ’17, student at Harvard Medical School Health Sciences and Technology

Leveraging Immunology in COVID

  • Paul Guyre, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
  • Steven Fiering, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Funding and a Scientific Career Path

  • Allan Bieber, PhD, Grant GPS at Dartmouth

A View of COVID Testing from Pathology

  • Joel Lefferts, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Science

Winter Term 2019-2020

Management of a Large Cancer Enterprise

  • Amy Stansfield, RN, MBA, Director, Hematology/Oncology

Ethics in Oncology Treatment

  • Gary Schwartz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Clinical Pathology

  • Jacqueline Hubbard, PhD, Clinical Chemistry
  • Robert Nerenz, PhD, Clinical Chemistry

Gynecologic Oncology

  • Ivy Wilkinson-Ryan, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Families and Treatment Planning in Pediatric Oncology

  • Bonnie Lau, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Treatment of Sarcomas

  • Eric Henderson, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics

Fall Term 2019

Welcome to the Cancer Center – tour

  • Steven D. Leach, MD, Director of Dartmouth Cancer Center

Surgical Oncology

  • Andrew Loehrer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Surgery and of The Dartmouth Institute

Community Flu Clinic and Cancer Screening – Volunteer Opportunity at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

High-risk HPV and Cervical Cancer in Honduras

  • Gregory Tsongalis, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Jamie Fenton ’21, intern with Dartmouth Opportunities in Oncology Research

The Jack Byrne Center for Palliative Care – tour

  • Ruth Thomson, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Epidemiology of Cancer and Environmental Exposures

  • Megan Romano, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology 

Community Breast Health Education Evening 

The Challenge and Opportunities Presented by Emerging Contaminants

  • Gary Ginsburg, PhD, Director of the Center for Environmental Health, NY State Department of Health

Promising Innovations in Pathology Using Artificial Intelligence

  • Louis Vaickus, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Radiation Oncology – tour

  • Bassem Zaki, MD, Associate Professor Medicine

Spring term 2019

Clinical Genomics and Advanced Testing – tour

  • Joel Leffert, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Geisel

Translational Oncology and Immunology

  • P. Jack Hoopes, DVM, Professor of Surgery; and of Medicine, Geisel

The Center of Imaging in Medicine – tour

  • Ethan Phillip LaRochelle, PhD, Candidate, Thayer School of Engineering

Animals in Research – tour

  • Karen Moodie, DVM, Research Assistant Professor, Geisel

Center for Surgical Innovation – tour

  • John Peiffer, Managing Director Center for Surgical Innovation and the Advanced Imaging Center, Geisel

4th Year Students’ Perspectives on Medical School 

  • Thomas Flynn III and Charlene Dunaway Altamirano, Geisel

A Career as a Clinician – Investigator

  • Rodwell Mabaera, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Geisel

MYC and CRISPR

  • Michael Cole, PhD, Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel

Device Development for Surgical Resection of Brain Tumors

  • David Roberts, MD, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Geisel

Winter term 2018-2019

Clinical Genomics and Advanced Testing – tour

  • Joel Leffert, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Geisel

Biostatistics

  • Zhigang Li, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Sciences; Epidemiology; and Community and Family Medicine, Geisel

Research in Neuro-oncology

  • Arti Gaur, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Geisel

Screening for Colon Cancer – tour

  • Audrey Calderwood, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine; and of The Dartmouth Institute

Dartmouth Cancer Center’s Office of Clinical Research

  • Michael Sainz, Administrative Director for the Office of Clinical Research, Dartmouth Cancer Center

Nursing in Oncology

  • Sheila Evans, RN, AOCN, Director of Nursing Operations, Dartmouth Cancer Center

Surgical Oncology

  • Christina Angeles, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Geisel

Fall term 2018

The Biology of Cancer – Our Biggest Questions Right Now

  • Yolanda Sanchez, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel, Associate Director for Basic Sciences, Dartmouth Cancer Center
  • Brent L Berwin, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel, Associate Director for Education, Dartmouth Cancer Center
  • Steven N Fiering, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel, Director of Mouse Modeling Shared Resource, Associate Director for Regional Affairs, Dartmouth Cancer Center

Exercise as a Therapeutic Adjuvant

  • Keri Schadler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, MD Anderson Cancer Center

The Work of a Hematology Oncologist

  • Gary N Schwartz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel

Prostate Surgery

  • John D Seigne, MB, BCh, Associate Professor of Surgery

The First Year of Medical School

  • Edel Auh and Matthew Y Jiang, Medical Students, Geisel

DNA Sequencing and Genomics

  • Craig R Tomlinson, PhD, Research Scientist, Associate Director for Shared Resources, Dartmouth Cancer Center

Blood and Marrow Transplant

  • John M Hill, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel

Dose Planning in Radiation Oncology

  • Benjamin B Williams, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and of Radiology, Geisel

Single Cell Sequencing

  • Fred Kolling IV, PhD, Research Scientist, Co-Director of Genomics and Molecular Biology Shared Resource, Dartmouth Cancer Center

Spring term 2018

Pharmacology and Chemotherapy

  • Meenakshi Shelat, Pharm D, Oncology Pharmacist, Dartmouth Cancer Center

Cancer Screening in Primary Care

  • Robert Kelly, MD, MPH, Primary Care Physician, Core Physicians in Exeter

Pediatric Oncology

  • Julie Kim, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Geisel

Precision Medicine and the Molecular Tumor Board

  • Todd W Miller, PhD, Scientific Director of the Comprehensive Breast Program, Dartmouth Cancer Center, Associate Director of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel

Learning Strategies for Medical School Students

  • William H Eidtson, EdD, Director, Learning Support & Student Accessibility Services, Geisel

Clinical Oncology and Research

  • Gabriel Arne Brooks, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute, Geisel

Fellowship Training in Oncology

  • Dartmouth Cancer Center Hematology-Oncology Fellows