Leadership

Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire selects interim president and CEO
Tarsa has served as chief clinical officer at VNH since joining them in 2022 and will continue in this dual role.

James B. Yu, MD, appointed to department of radiation oncology at Dartmouth Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine
Yu will serve as leader of the genitourinary radiation oncology program.

Cheshire Medical Center Hires David Horne, MD, MPH, as Inaugural Dermatology Chief
Horne assumed the role in December, after serving as a temporary provider at the Keene hospital for one year.

Four new Board Trustees elected to Dartmouth Health, and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics
The newly elected trustees, all of whom were elected at the end-of-year 2024 meetings, began their terms this month.

Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine name Anna Noel Miller, MD, orthopaedics department chair
Her new position began January 6.

Becker’s Hospital Review honors New London Hospital CEO and president as one of America’s top critical access hospital executives
Lauren A. Geddes Wirth, MD, was named NLH’s CEO and president last month, after serving in the roles on an interim basis since March.

Dartmouth Health staff, trustees recognized at New Hampshire Hospital Association’s annual meeting
Dartmouth Health CEO and president Joanne M. Conroy, MD, presided as the meeting’s keynote speaker.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth name Sheila Ryan Barnett, MD, anesthesiology department chair
Barnett most recently served as director of quality for community anesthesia for Harvard Faculty Medical Physicians at Beth Israel Lahey Health.

Crisis in rural healthcare drives leading rural northeast health system CEOs to seek support in Washington, D.C., to preserve patient access
Leaders seek policies to help older, sicker, more vulnerable patients

DHMC VP of operations elected to New England Life Care’s board of directors
In addition to trustees, the NELC board of directors provides governance oversight and ensures strategic alignment between member hospital systems and NELC.