The department of medicine at Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have selected Angelo E. Volandes, MD, MPH, as its next vice chair of research. He transitions to this new role from Massachusetts General Hospital where he practiced internal medicine since 2007.
In his new position, Volandes will build the infrastructure necessary to support endeavors for early career investigators, mid-career researchers and senior scientists to create an environment where innovation can thrive across the entire spectrum of investigation, from bench to bedside.
A clinician investigator, Volandes established a world-renowned research platform focused on leveraging a novel ethical and population health program. The program utilizes digital visual media to improve decision making for all patients and caregivers throughout the lifespan. His work brought international recognition to the importance of digital media decision aids in the innovation of clinical care delivery models, and the improvement of quality of life and care for all patients across the age spectrum.
Volandes’ research also brought an elevated level of scientific rigor to shared decision making research by first describing the decision-making needs of patients and families across the continuum of care, followed by systematically developing, refining, testing and disseminating digital interventions to meet those needs. His work has received funding from numerous federal agencies and nonprofit foundations
Volandes received his undergraduate degree from Harvard before attending medical school at Yale. He then completed residency training in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Volandes also holds a master’s in public health in clinical effectiveness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Volandes was named a professor of medicine at Geisel last month, with a secondary professor appointment at The Dartmouth Institute.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.
About the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, founded in 1797, strives to improve the lives of the communities we serve through excellence in learning, discovery, and healing. The nation's fourth-oldest medical school, the Geisel School of Medicine has been home to many firsts in medical education, research and practice, including the discovery of the mechanism for how light resets biological clocks, creating the first multispecialty intensive care unit, the first comprehensive examination of U.S. health care cost variations (The Dartmouth Atlas), and the first Center for Health Care Delivery Science, which launched in 2010. As one of America's top medical schools, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine is committed to training new generations of physician leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in health care.