Section Chief, General Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
James Heckman, MD, is a general internist who joined Dartmouth Health in 2021 and serves as Section Chief of General Internal Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
A native of Weare, New Hampshire, he earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he remained on faculty as a clinician-educator and physician leader. At Beth Israel, his work centered on healthcare delivery redesign, team development, and improving clinician well-being, and in 2017 he was selected for the Linde Family Fellowship in Primary Care Leadership.
Building on that experience, Dr. Heckman returned to New Hampshire to lead the Section of General Internal Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where he has guided growth and transformation, spearheading positive culture change, advancing faculty development, and promoting innovative models of care.
Guided by the values of integrity, respect, kindness, and professionalism, he is passionate about reengineering healthcare systems to improve outcomes for patients and care teams.