Names to Know: New promotions in the healthcare community
American Hospital Association board names Joanne M. Conroy, MD, as Chair-elect Designate
LEBANON – The American Hospital Association Board of Trustees has elected Joanne M. Conroy, MD, CEO and President of Dartmouth Health, as its Chair-elect Designate. Conroy will be Chair-elect in 2023 and become the 2024 Chair of the AHA, the top-elected official of the national organization that represents America’s hospitals and health systems and works to advance health in America.
“The American Hospital Association is a powerful force in leading and advocating for hospitals and health systems around our country and, by extension, the patients and communities we serve,” said Conroy. “I’m deeply honored that my colleagues on the Board have elected me to serve as Chair, and I look forward to continuing to work with Rick Pollack and AHA team in achieving our vision of a just society of healthy communities, where all individuals reach their highest potential for health.”
Since joining Dartmouth Health in 2017, Conroy’s leadership and commitment to improving access to, and the quality of, health care in New Hampshire and Vermont, and improving patient experience while saving the system money, has transformed the academic health system, resulting in an improvement in all areas of operation at the nation’s most rural academic health system.
Conroy has overseen significant changes across Dartmouth Health, including the undertaking of two major expansion projects, guiding the system through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a strategic planning process that will guide the organization into the future and build upon its partnership with the world-class Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Conroy is a co-founder of “Women of Impact,” a nonpartisan group of 85 female health care leaders. She led Dartmouth Health in becoming an early signatory of the TIME’S UP Healthcare initiative to increase safety and gender equity in the health sector. In June, 2022, Modern Healthcare named Conroy as of its “50 Most Influential Clinical Executives”, and the magazine has named her among “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare” in 2018 and 2020.
For more information about the American Hospital Association, visit: www.aha.org.
Dartmouth professor Jeremiah Brown appointed chair of NIH Study Section
HANOVER - Jeremiah Brown, PhD, a professor of epidemiology, of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and of biomedical data science at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has been named Chair of the Science of Implementation in Health and Healthcare Study Section (SIHH), a standing study section in the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He began his two-year term effective July 1, 2022.
Through his work in healthcare improvement and cardiovascular epidemiology, Brown has emerged as a leading presence in the field of implementation science. This new area of multidisciplinary research, which focuses on moving scientific evidence into routine practice, has quickly become a top priority for major funding organizations such as the NIH, CDC, and PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute).
“I am very pleased that Dr. Brown has been selected for this key national leadership position,” says Duane Compton, PhD, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine. “This appointment recognizes his many accomplishments in academic medicine and will provide him with a unique opportunity to contribute to the national biomedical research effort.”
In his role as chair, Brown’s responsibilities will include running the scientific review meeting, managing the grant review process to ensure that it is fair, equitable and free of bias, addressing areas of discordance, summarizing the panel discussion for each grant proposal, and working with the scientific review officer in panel management and training.
“I’m very excited to take on this new leadership role at the NIH,” says Brown, who served a two-year term as a standing study section member in the SIHH before being named chair. “I think it’s a great opportunity for Dartmouth to further develop its positioning in the implementation science field nationally and internationally.”
Brown is the principal investigator on several national NIH-funded clinical trials focused on implementation science and clinical informatics. Supported by team members Meagan Stabler, PhD, Iben Sullivan, PhD, MPH, Kevin Cox, Devin Parker, MS, Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, PhD, Todd MacKenzie, PhD, and James O’Malley, PhD, MS, along with national collaborators, the team is leading two national randomized implementation trials to improve adoption of evidence-based practices and guidelines in preventing major complications including acute kidney injury, peri-operative bacterial transmission, and infections. In addition, his team also specializes in clinical informatics using electronic health record data and clinical notes to predict healthcare encounters.
Brown also collaborates with other leaders in the field to develop guidelines for organizations such as the Acute Kidney Injury Network, the International Consortium of Evidence Based Perfusion, and the Workforce on Cardiopulmonary Bypass for the Society for Thoracic Surgeons. He is the lead author on the Society of Thoracic Surgery acute kidney injury guidelines co-produced with the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Extracorporeal Technology being released this fall.
In collaboration with Dean Compton, Kelly Aschbrenner, PhD, Sarah Lord, PhD, and faculty across all of Dartmouth, Brown is working to build a new Center for Implementation Science that will serve as an axis for faculty, staff, and students to develop expertise and independence in implementation science.
This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Names to Know: New professionals in the healthcare community
