Imaging and Re-imagining Mental Health: how visualizing the brain in mental illness through functional MRI can reduce suffering

On Wednesday, March 8, 2023, Dartmouth Health Care Foundations community members came together over Zoom to listen to Dr. Silbersweig, the guest speaker for the Eric Eichler ’57 Foundations in Medicine and Humanities Seminar.  David A. Silbersweig, MD, is the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and the Co-Director at the Center for the Neurosciences

Hidden in Plain Sight: Alcohol Addiction, Mental Illness, and Missed Diagnoses

Written by Katie Fearon, Dartmouth Class of 2023 and 2022-23 Eric Eichler ’57 Fellowship for Health Care Leaders fellow. Many of us feel guilt or regret about something in our lives. I should’ve known better is all too common a feeling. When this does happen, though, all we can do is try to learn and

Partners in Health: Amplifying Hope in Global Health Equity.

Written by Evan McMahon, Dartmouth Class of 2025 and 2022-23 Eric Eichler ’57 Fellowship for Health Care Leaders fellow. For this month’s Eichler ’57 Foundations in Medicine and Humanities Seminar, I had the pleasure of listening and talking with Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PhD. For those who don’t know Dr. Binagwaho, she is Vice

The Future of Hospital Sound

On September 29, 2022, Dartmouth Professor Elizabeth Carpenter-Song and Dr. Manish K. Mishra invited Yoko Sen, Sound Artist and Founder of Sen Sound, to talk about her mission to transform the hospital sound environment from something hostile to something more conducive to a healing environment for both patients and practitioners. She described her work with

Poetry, Music, and the Practice of Medicine: How Close Attention to Goethe and Schubert Can Improve Clinical Care

By Abigail Fischer (21-22 Eichler Fellow) “I’m fine. It’s good. It’s not a big deal.” Sometimes the tone of someone’s voice suggests the opposite of what the text of their sentences means. Tuning your senses to this mismatch is a critical skill in healthcare. This March, Steve Swayne, PhD, the Jacob Strauss 1922 Professor of

Re-Engineering Breast Cancer Surgery

By Lucy Fu (21-22 Eichler Fellow) There was no better way to kick off the new year than with an Eric Eichler D’57 Foundations in Medicine and Humanities Seminar Series. During our January seminar, we took a deep dive into an extraordinary story of collaboration: how an academic cancer surgeon and an engineering expert turned

Unresolved Tensions: Climate Change and Climate Anxiety

by Samantha Palermo (21-22 Eichler Fellow) As we closed out 2021, our Eric Eichler D’57 Foundations in Medicine and Humanities Seminar Series continued with a reflection on fostering environmental stewardship for our surroundings and the well-being of future generations. Together, the Dartmouth Health Care Foundations community grappled with, “How do we engage meaningfully with the

Housing is Health: Intersections of Policy and Public Health

On October 26, 2021, Dartmouth Health Care Foundations at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice (TDI), hosted an Eric Eichler ’57 Foundations in Medicine and Humanities Seminar. The program co-directors, Dr. Manish K. Mishra and Prof. Elizabeth Carpenter-Song facilitated a conversation with our featured guest speakers Anne N. Sosin, MPH, Policy Fellow

Freud’s Couch vs My Couch: Is digital therapy the answer in the era of COVID?

Experts from the sciences and humanities reviewed the growing problem of mental health access, described the process for a digital health program to be Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved, and helped us understand the promises and limitations of these new approaches.

Music AND Medicine, Music IN Medicine, Music IS Medicine

What better way to ring in the final seminar of the 2021 Eichler ’57 Foundations in Medicine and Humanities Seminar Series than with some music? Dartmouth Health Care Foundations co-directors Dr. Manish K. Mishra and Prof. Elizabeth Carpenter-Song were joined by our featured guest, Professor Michael A. Casey in furthering our exploration of the role of humanities in medicine in our