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Surgeon Kari Rosenkranz was elected to a three-year term as a trustee, and cardiologist Jon Wahrenberger was named to a four-year term on the Board of Governors.
Rosenkranz is the medical director of the Comprehensive Breast Program in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center. She also serves as an associate professor of surgery at Geisel, with a primary clinical interest in breast surgery. In addition to clinical practice, Rosenkranz has a strong interest in medical education. She is the associate chair for education in the Department of Surgery and the associate program director for the general surgery residency. She is a strong advocate for the educational mission at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, according to a news release from the health care system.
She earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her medical degree from Albany (N.Y.) Medical College. She completed her general surgery training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 2005. She went on to fellowship training in breast surgery at the MD Anderson Cancer Center and returned to Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the faculty of Geisel in 2006.
Members of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Board of Trustees are a diverse group of volunteers, with backgrounds in business, medicine, law, education, finance and other fields, the release said. They may be elected for a maximum of three consecutive terms.
Wahrenberger is a clinical cardiologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and an assistant professor of medicine for Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He has served on several regional affiliate boards of the American Heart Association, was president of the Northeast Affiliate, and co-president of the Founder’s Affiliate of the AHA. He has long overseen several educational conferences, including the annual Cardiovascular Disease Update Symposium for regional physicians, and a symposium, “Get Heart Smart,” which is held each February.
He attended college at the University of Montana, majoring in microbiology, and later did post-baccalaureate studies at Columbia University and attended medical school at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. He completed his medical training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, including Internal Medicine residency, a medicine fellowship and both a general and interventional cardiology fellowship.
His professional interests include general and consultative cardiology and high-altitude medicine. He has long been an advocate for tools to promote physician productivity, the release said. He was a member of the informatics team for several years before and after the implementation of Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s electronic medical record, served on the Departmental Systems Committee at D-H, and has been a “longtime champion” of speech recognition software at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s 18-member Board of Governors serves as the Executive Committee of the medical staff and is responsible for regulatory and licensing activities. It also makes recommendations to D-H’s CEO and president and to the Board of Trustees on a variety of issues related to the health care system.
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Tormey, who joined the Gastroenterology Department staff, will perform colonoscopies, endoscopies and outpatient consultations.
She has extensive experience as a medical researcher and from 2013 to 2016 was the principal investigator for a clinical study involving adults with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a news release from the hospital. She has also worked at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut on a study of the therapeutic effect of statins in the treatment of hepatitis C. From 2003 to 2006, Tormey worked at the Lank Center of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where she helped coordinate a clinical study of prostate cancer and create a research database.
She is the author of several research papers, lectures and presentations on aspects of treatment for bowel disorders, hepatitis C, pancreatitis and prostate cancer, as well as patient health literacy, the release said. She has also taught at Boston University School of Medicine and Yale School of Medicine.
Tormey earned her bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine. She completed her post-doctoral training at Yale-New Haven Hospital and completed her gastroenterology fellowship training at Boston Medical Center in 2016. She is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology, the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American College of Physicians.
Dougherty has more than 18 years of experience as a nurse practitioner, most recently in a health center in Maine, according to a separate news release from the hospital. She also served as director and primary nurse practitioner for a New Hampshire university health service.
“Her background of serving the needs of diverse patient populations, as well as her managerial skills, will be a tremendous asset to Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center and to our mission,” said Joseph Perras, the hospital’s CEO.
Dougherty has a “keen interest” in working with special needs adolescents and adults, and with patients who may be struggling with life circumstances, according to the release.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in public management from the University of Maine and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She earned a family nurse practitioner master’s degree from Rivier University, where she recently served as an adjunct faculty member with the program.
She is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and has been inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for Nursing.
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Partners for Community Wellness are “citizen representatives who work with Dartmouth-Hitchcock to inspire and advance healthier communities across New Hampshire and Vermont, through education, advocacy and philanthropy,” according to a news release from the health care system.
The group’s executive committee recently approved Catherine Bardier, director of wellness and community health at New London Hospital; New Hampshire attorney John Kitchen; Jill Lord, director of community health at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center; and Amanda Grappone Osmer, CEO of Grappone Automotive in Concord, N.H.
Bardier and Lord’s collaboration with many health and wellness groups in their own communities will enhance the group’s relationships with community coalitions such as Healthy Eating Active Living, prevention partnerships and state public health councils, the release said.
Osmer’s standing as a leader in family friendly workplace practices brings the voice of the business community into Partners for Community Wellness’ health policy work, the release said. She is especially passionate about advocacy work surrounding early childhood health and education.
Kitchen, a trust attorney, provides “a valuable connection to the legal community,” the release said. He brings a passion for improving advance care planning in New Hampshire, strong relationships with the state’s bar association and experience with the state legislature.
He is a trained facilitator with the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Honoring Care Decisions program, which aims to improve and promote advance care planning.
— Compiled by Aimee Caruso