DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK - Key Persons
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- Program Coordinator SR - Continuing Nursing Education / Center for Nursing Excellence
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education ( GME ), Designated Institutional Official ( DIO ), Professor of Emergency Medicine
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Retired Investment Banker
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics / Southern Region Chief Operating Officer
Craig W. Beck, MBA, MHA, draws on nearly 30 years of healthcare experience as the Chief Operating Officer, Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics/Southern Region. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics multi-specialty group practice. He serves as the administrative partner to the southern region chief medical officer to set and implement strategies that advance the southern region's footprint in support of the Dartmouth Health system and for the patients and communities served. Beck's primary focus is on growing Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics' suite of clinical offerings in the region, navigating the critical relationships in southern New Hampshire on behalf of Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics, and identifying positive solutions to improve staff and clinician engagement and efficiency.
Beck rejoined Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in 2017 from St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua, New Hampshire, where he served as Vice President of Physician Services, Strategy and Business Development. Prior to St. Joseph, Beck was the Administrative Director of Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua for 12 years. He was instrumental in the growth and position of the group practice within the Nashua community, as well as the development of the new facility on 2300 Southwood Drive.
He holds a Master of Business Administration and an additional graduate degree in healthcare administration. Beck currently serves on the New London Hospital Board of Directors, New London, NH. Previously, he held board positions for Gateways Community Services in Nashua, NH; Home Health & Hospice and the Project Search Business Advisory Council.
He is a long-time resident of Goffstown, NH, where he and his wife Michelle, a retired elementary educator and avid mountain biker, have raised their two sons.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- President & COO, JBG SMITH
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- Continuing Nursing Education
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- Chief Academic Officer
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Dean, Geisel School of Medicine
Duane Compton, PhD, serves as Dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, where he is also the Senior Associate Dean for Research and a Professor of Biochemistry.
Dr. Compton received his PhD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1988 and completed his postdoctoral training in the field of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was recruited to the faculty at Dartmouth in 1993 and is a leader in graduate and medical student education and a distinguished National Institutes of Health-funded researcher.
In his research program, Dr. Compton focuses on understanding how cancer cells acquire abnormal chromosome numbers and how those alterations influence cancer cell growth. He has published more than 70 articles, and images of his work have been displayed on the cover of 15 different journals. He serves on national committees with the American Society for Cell Biology and American Association of Medical Colleges and reviews grant applications for the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2013 he earned a MERIT award from the NIH to provide long-term support for his research program.
Dr. Compton is committed to graduate and medical education. He has graduated 18 PhD students and has served on committees for more than 50 graduate students. He received the Graduate Faculty Mentor Award in 2007. He spent six years as Biochemistry course director for the first-year medical student curriculum and received the Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2004. He was a member of the inaugural class of faculty elected to the Geisel Academy of Master Faculty Educators in 2012. Dr. Compton is an avid snowboarder who lives with his wife in Lyme, New Hampshire.
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- Vice President, Center for Learning & Professional Development and Title IX Officer
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior VP, Resident Director for the Hanover, NH Bank of America / Merrill Lynch Office
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School and Chief Medical Officer, Applied Tissues Technologies, LLC
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Medical Director of the Comprehensive Wound Clinic at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center & Assistant Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University
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- Learning Experience Designer
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- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Senior Learning Systems Analyst
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Chief Communications and Marketing Officer
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Managing Director & CAO, White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Leadership Team
- President
Joanne M. Conroy, MD, has led Dartmouth Health as chief executive officer and president since 2017, overseeing the management of the state's only academic health system and largest private employer in a complex and rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.
Under Conroy's leadership the system's flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, is regularly ranked as the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report.
Conroy also has moved Dartmouth Health to continue broadening its service to New Hampshire and Vermont communities through partnerships and collaborations in both states. The Dartmouth Health system now includes four hospitals and a home health agency, and a longstanding, strong relationship with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth continues to provide key academic and research collaborations to train the next generation of physicians.
Conroy has long been a vocal advocate for increasing the role of women in leadership, and is often singled out as a role model for other women who aspire to become leaders and agents for positive change in healthcare.
Conroy was named to the American Hospital Association's Board of Trustees in 2019, and in 2022 was named Chair-Elect Designate, to serve as chair of the AHA Board in 2024.
In December, 2022, Conroy was ranked #18 on Modern Healthcare magazine's list of "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare." Other recent national and regional awards and honors of note include being named to Becker's Hospital Review's "Top 113 Great Leaders in Healthcare" list and the 2021 Citizen of the Year by the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Conroy received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College and earned her medical degree at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is board certified with the American Board of Anesthesiologists.
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- Chief Medical Officer
- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Senior Accreditation Consultant
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- GME Business and Reporting Specialist
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Interim Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Vice Chair for Education, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Co - Medical Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit
- Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Vice Chair for Education, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Co - Medical Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit
- Vice Chair for Education
Dr. Chiang is the Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC). A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, she completed an intern year in internal medicine at Earl K. Long LSU Medical Center in Louisiana, and her anesthesiology residency at the University of Alabama-Birmingham where she served as Chief Resident. She then completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock and joined the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center staff in 2015.
Dr. Chiang previously served as the DHMC's Director of Obstetric Anesthesia and is currently the Co-Medical Director of the Surgical Care Unit. Her clinical interests include critical care, management of complex patients in the OR, and quality improvement within perioperative critical care. She thrives on teaching applied physiology as it pertains to anesthesia and critical care.
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- Senior Learning Experience Designer
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- Accreditation Coordinator
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- Senior Learning Systems Analyst
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- Program Coordinator SR - Clinical Placements
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics / Southern Region Chief Medical Officer
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Co - Founder and Senior Advisor, Health Advances, LLC
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Chief Executive Officer, Equifax
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- Learning Experience Designer
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- Chief Quality Officer
- Member of the Leadership Team
Michael S. Calderwood, MD, MPH, was named Chief Quality Officer of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in February 2021. Prior to this role, he served as the Associate Chief Quality Officer for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center since 2019. As Chief Quality Officer for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Calderwood's responsibilities include management and oversight of the integration of safety, quality, patient experience and value/process improvement activities; along with oversight of quality assurance and regulatory compliance. In addition, he works closely with other Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center chief officers to identify organizational quality, safety, patient experience and value opportunities annually; and to develop policies, programs, metrics, reporting and accountability to aggressively implement improvement.
Calderwood joined Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in 2016, and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is an active physician in the Section of Infectious Disease and International Health, and is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease. Prior to his current leadership role, he served as Regional Hospital Epidemiologist for the Dartmouth Health system, as the Medical Co-director of the Collaborative Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention team, and as one of the leaders of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Comprehensive Antimicrobial Program. He continues to serve as Co-chair of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Quality Committee, SEARCHES (Significant Event Analysis of Root Causes and Hospital Systems), and the Dartmouth Health system Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee.
Calderwood started his career on the staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, where he directed the hospital's antimicrobial stewardship program, was one of the hospital epidemiologists and was a research investigator in the Therapeutic Research and Infectious Disease Epidemiology group in the Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine in Cambridge, MA. This research involved collaborations with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Calderwood earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Harvard University, followed by a medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a fellowship in infectious diseases in the combined Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital program. He also holds a master of public health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Calderwood was elected a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, is a member of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and has served on a number of committees and workgroups in both organizations. He is involved in a number of state advisory workgroups and has been actively engaged in the Dartmouth Health system response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Learning Experience Designer
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- Manager Research Education & Professional Development
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Medical Director, Blood Bank / Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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- Chairman Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
Dr. Desir is the Beeson Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine., Dr. Desir is also Chief of Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital, and at Yale University he serves as vice provost for faculty development and diversity.
As a physician-scientist, Dr. Desir is discovered a novel protein - which he named renalase - that plays a critical role in cell injury, inflammation, and cancer. He is a named inventor on several United States and international patents related to the discovery and use of the renalase protein, and the development of drugs for cancer. He is the scientific founder of 2 biotechnology companies.
Dr. Desir earned a bachelor's degree in biology, magna cum laude, from New York University. As an undergraduate he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society and received New York University's Founders Day award. Following graduation from Yale School of Medicine (cum laude, Alpha Omega Alpha honor society), he trained in internal medicine and nephrology at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is an established investigator of the American Heart Association and has been elected to honorary societies including the Association of Professors of Medicine, the American Clinical and Climatological Association, the Association of American Physicians, and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Clinical Partner, Welsh Carson Anderson and Stowe
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- Chairman
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees
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- Associate Learning Systems Analyst
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- FSSO, FACS, FASCO
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- CEO and Co - Founder of Particles for Humanity PBC
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- Chief Research Officer
- Member of the Leadership Team
Steven L. Bernstein, MD, is the inaugural Chief Research Officer for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Associate Dean of Clinical Research and Director of the C. Everett Koop Institute at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (Geisel).
As Chief Research Officer, Bernstein oversees all aspects of research at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, including serving as the designated Institutional Official for Research, leading Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center's Office of Research Operations, and overseeing development and implementation of a forward-looking strategic plan for growth of the organization's clinical, translational and population-based research portfolio. As the Associate Dean for Clinical Research for Geisel, Bernstein is responsible for growing and supporting the school's clinical and translational research programs, and, working with colleagues from across Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth College, develops opportunities and processes for clinical and translational research that span the organizations. In his role as the Director of the C. Everett Koop Institute, Bernstein leads the Institute's efforts to advance health and well-being through research, education and policy activities to protect the public health and prevent disease. The institute seeks to mitigate threats posed by the unhealthy promotion and use of consumer products, including tobacco, alcohol and highly processed foods, as well as prescription drugs.
Bernstein previously served as Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and Professor of Public Health (Chronic Disease Epidemiology) in the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut. In those roles, he developed screening and treatment interventions for tobacco users in hospital settings and programs to train providers in tobacco control.
He holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, and he earned his medical degree from the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bernstein trained in residencies at SUNY Health Sciences Center and at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. Bernstein was a fellow in hematology-oncology at SUNY Health Sciences Center and was a visiting fellow in clinical epidemiology at the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale.
Bernstein's research has received funding from a broad range of agencies, including the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other agencies and foundations. His work has appeared in journals as diverse as Health Affairs, the American Journal of Public Health, Annals of Emergency Medicine and Nicotine and Tobacco Research. He has strong interests in implementation science and is the founding Director of the Yale Center for Implementation Science. Current work includes studying the efficacy of a brief counseling intervention, nicotine replacement therapy, a telephone quitline service and an SMS texting program in helping adult smokers in the emergency department quit tobacco. Bernstein is also involved in a project using network analysis to model patterns of adherence and abstinence in human health behavior. He has additional interests in teaching the principles of public health, population health and prevention to medical students, residents and practitioners.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Executive Vice President, and Dartmouth Health Chief Nursing Executive
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
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- Continuing Medical Education
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- Accreditation and Education Specialist
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- CEO of the Harvard Allston Land Company
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Retired Senior Foreign Service Officer
Tina Dooley-Jones spent more than 30 years in international development as a researcher, private consultant with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She maintains expertise and in-depth knowledge of the role and potential of international assistance to catalyze inclusive democracies, economies and social systems and services that address the needs and aspirations of individuals, households, communities, countries and regions.
Thriving on finding simple, practical solutions to complex challenges, Dooley-Jones capstoned her career with USAID as the first female Mission Director to USAID/Afghanistan. USAID's largest Mission in the world with activities spanning the full array of development activities, including health, education, democracy and governance, agriculture, infrastructure, economic growth, and USAID's only standalone Office of Gender. USAID/Afghanistan underwent a tumultuous period during her tenure, characterized by the prospect of peace, the devastating impacts of COVID-19 and aggressive Taliban insurgency. Dooley-Jones utilized her strong leadership, vision and problem-solving acumen to lead a staff of 250 development and humanitarian professionals and more than 100 implementing partners, to support a country attempting to overcome 40 years of conflict, natural disaster and war.
Prior to her retirement from USAID, Dooley-Jones served as USAID's senior representative on the Department of State-led Afghanistan Coordination Task Force (ACTF). The ACTF, made up of several hundred State Department, USAID, and Department of Defense personnel coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for the evacuation and on-going efforts to assist more than 70,000 individuals to depart Afghanistan, and gain entry into and resettle in the United States.
Dooley-Jones served as the Deputy Mission Director in Afghanistan from 2019 to mid-2020. Prior to assuming her positions in Afghanistan, she served as Mission Director for USAID/Kenya and East Africa, overseeing a mission that provides bilateral assistance to Kenya and Somalia, assistance to East African regional institutions, and humanitarian assistance throughout the region. She also served on two separate occasions in Zimbabwe, and for multiple years in the South Africa/Southern African Regional Mission, Namibia and Morocco. Dooley-Jones began her career with USAID in 1994 as a Regional Housing and Urban Development Officer in Zimbabwe.
Working in difficult, conflict-affected countries such as Zimbabwe, Somalia and Afghanistan, she oversaw programs that support major macro-economic reforms; provide for the critical needs and well-being of people in war torn environments; seek to enhance the private sector's role in growth and job creation; and improve democratic institutions, governance and policies. The recipient of several Distinguished, Superior and Meritorious Achievement awards, Dooley-Jones was nominated for a 2023 Presidential Rank Award, the highest federal civilian award for "sustained extraordinary accomplishment."
Prior to joining USAID, Dr. Dooley-Jones worked as an architect in Philadelphia and for a number of non-profit organizations in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Dooley-Jones received a PhD and Master's degree in City and Regional Planning and a Master's degree in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College. She is a recently retired career member of the Senior Foreign Service.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Chief Medical Officer, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center & Medical Director for the Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics, Bennington, Vermont
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Chief Financial Officer and SVP of Finance
Wendy E. Fielding, MBA, was appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics and SVP of Finance in December 2021. In addition to her responsibilities related to the financial health of DHMC and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics, Fielding also has responsibility for the integration of financial planning across all Dartmouth Health system members.
Fielding joined DHMC and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in 2009 as the Vice President of Financial Planning, with oversight of business and analytical decision support, the annual financial planning and budget process, and development of the organization's long-term financial plan. She played an important role in DHMC and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic's financial turnaround in 2017-18 and in more recent years, has assumed an increasing level of responsibility for DHMC and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics financial issues. She collaborates closely with the DHMC and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics leadership team to provide financial support for strategic decisions from preliminary vetting through governance approval, most recently for significant expansion projects on DHMC and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic's Lebanon and Manchester campuses.
An avid learner and teacher, Fielding shares her knowledge and perspective with leaders across the system by teaching the fundamentals of healthcare finance in the "Leading at Dartmouth Health" leadership development program. She is a 2019 Carol Emmott Fellow and has a particular interest in supporting women leaders to advance their healthcare careers and to ultimately transform healthcare.
Prior to joining DHMC and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics, Fielding held positions as the Chief Financial Officer at Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine, and as the Director of Financial Reporting & Analysis at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Management from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Bentley University in Waltham, MA. A longstanding member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, she currently serves on the Board of New London Hospital in New London, New Hampshire. Fielding previously served on the Board of Cheshire Medical Center.
Fielding and her husband live in Grantham, NH.