Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has appointed Sarah H. Finn, MD, as the section chief of obesity medicine of its Walter and Carole Young Center for Digestive Health. Finn will also continue to serve as the medical director for the Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Weight Center in Manchester and Nashua.
Finn first joined Dartmouth Health in 2015 serving as a primary care physician in Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Bedford. Over the last decade, she has held leadership roles of increasing responsibility within the section of obesity medicine, including operational lead and obesity medicine director while also serving as an assistant professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Her clinical interests include anti-obesity pharmacology, post-bariatric surgery weight gain and targeted lifestyle change counseling.
Finn received her medical degree from the University of Nevada School of Medicine and completed an internship in internal medicine at the University of Virginia, followed by a residency in internal medicine at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, where she also served as chief resident.
Finn has been integral to the strategic growth and programmatic development of the section of obesity medicine including the evolving care philosophy that has resulted in the recent renaming of the Weight and Wellness section within the Center for Digestive Health, to the Weight Center.
In addition to her other responsibilities, Finn will have the important role to further integrate medical, surgical and endoscopic bariatric treatments to offer a fully comprehensive resource in the region for the treatment of obesity.
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