Individual Awards
- Dr. Stefan Balan has been named one of ten recipients of the American Cancer Society's 2010 Lane Adams Quality of Life Award. According to the American Cancer Society, this national award recognizes individuals who "innovatively and consistently provide excellent and compassionate skilled care, counsel, and/or service to persons with cancer and their families." The award is given annually in honor of the late Lane W. Adams, who served as executive vice president of the American Cancer Society. Read the complete press release.
- Dr. Ardis Olson, a pediatrician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD) as well as a researcher at Norris Cotton Cancer Center, has been named Pediatrician of the Year by the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Pediatrics Society. Describing Dr. Olson as a "champion for pediatricians, family practitioners and their practices," the Chapter called her "a pioneer committed to improving practice quality through enhanced communication." Read the complete press release.
- Forty-six physicians with Dartmouth-Hitchcock ties, in 34 different specialties, were recently named to New Hampshire Magazine's list of the leading physicians in New Hampshire, in the magazine's April edition. Read the complete press release.
- Three Dartmouth-Hitchcock employees have been honored as "exceptional quality leaders" with the James W. Varnum Quality Health Care Awards. Scott Farr, Cynthia L. Nulton, and Laurie L. Tostenson were cited for their "ongoing commitment to ensuring Dartmouth-Hitchcock provides the highest quality of care." Read more.
- Danielle Salvas, a registered nurse in Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Pediatric/Adolescent Unit, was with a patient when she received a message that the State Board of Nursing was on the phone. On her way to the phone she couldn't help wondering what she had done. As it turns out, the caller was from the New Hampshire Nursing Association announcing that Salvas had indeed done something - she had been named New Hampshire Direct Care Nurse of the Year.
- Pioneering vascular surgeon and Dartmouth medical educator Jack L. Cronenwett, MD, received the prestigious Julius H. Jacobson II Award for Physician Excellence, during the annual meeting of the Vascular Disease Foundation (VDF). Read more.
- Marie Bakitas, DNSc, APRN, AOCN, FAAN, was presented with the 2010 Brilliant Future New Investigator Award by the Council for Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS) at the organization's annual State of the Science Congress in Washington, DC. Dr. Bakitas, who is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and a researcher at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is being honored for her pioneering work in palliative care, according to CANS. Read more.
- Dartmouth vascular surgeon Brian W. Nolan, MD, MS, will further his research into the quality of life for patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), under a career-development award that he received on June 10, during the annual meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery. Read more.
