Health care professionals: Names to Know

Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine announce new Chair of the Department of Medicine

LEBANON - Following a national search, Nathan Goldstein, MD, has been named the next Chair of the Department of Medicine at Dartmouth Health and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine.

Goldstein comes to Dartmouth Health from the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he is Professor and holds the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman Chair in Palliative Care. Goldstein serves as the system Vice-Chair for Professional Development, where he oversees initiatives including; diversity, equity, and inclusion; wellness and sustainability; and faculty and staff development.

Goldstein will have responsibility for the overall strategic direction, clinical operations, and management of the Department of Medicine. In addition, as the department’s academic leader, he will oversee the contributions of the department in medical education and will lead an expansion of the research enterprise in the department and in collaboration with other institutional leaders. Goldstein will also hold the Joseph M. Huber Professorship of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine.

Goldstein is a clinician investigator who has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the Health Resources & Services Administration, and multiple foundations. His work examines patient-physician communication in patients with advanced heart failure as well as novel models to deliver palliative care at home for people with advanced illness.

A magna cum laude graduate with a BA in Biology from Carleton College in Northfield, MN, Goldstein attended the Mount Sinai School of Medicine for medical school. He completed his training in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, followed by health services research training in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the Yale School of Medicine. He then returned to Mount Sinai to complete a clinical geriatrics fellowship and subsequently joined the faculty. Goldstein is board-certified in internal medicine, geriatrics, and hospice and palliative medicine.

Goldstein will begin work in March 2024, assuming the role previously held by Richard Rothstein, MD.

Scott W. Rodi, MD, named Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine

LEBANON – Scott W. Rodi, MD, MPH, FACEP, has been named Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Rodi’s appointment follows a national search to fill this important role. He has served as interim chair since 2020.

As the clinical leader and department Chair, Rodi is responsible for the overall direction, operations, and management of the department, including the delivery of emergency medicine services, faculty development, graduate medical education, and providing telemedicine across Dartmouth Health’s service area through the TeleED program. As an academic leader at Geisel, Rodi will be responsible for the department’s educational functions, which include teaching and training medical students, and residents.

“Dr. Rodi successfully led the emergency department through some of the most challenging times in recent memory from navigating the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic to managing ongoing staffing shortages and unprecedented patient census numbers,” said Edward J. Merrens, MD, chief clinical officer of Dartmouth Health. “His appointment to the role of emergency medicine chair is well-deserved and we look forward to his continued leadership in the department of emergency medicine.

“I am pleased that Dr. Rodi has taken on this important role,” said Duane Compton, PhD, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine. “He provided key leadership in the formation of Emergency Medicine as a stand-alone department and has been a strong advocate for the department’s academic mission. I look forward to working with him to advance the department’s educational and research activities.”

Rodi joined DHMC and Dartmouth in 2000. He attended medical school at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, and holds a bachelor’s in biology and master’s of public health from Dartmouth College. He served as interim section chief for emergency medicine at DHMC from 2018 to 2020. Rodi has been in leadership roles within DHMC emergency medicine since 2005, including medical director and section chief for emergency medicine, medical director for TeleED, regional medical director for DHART, and founder and co-director of the Center for Rural Emergency Services and Trauma.

This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Health care professionals: Names to Know