Awarded from the Henry Heyl Fund of the Hitchcock Foundation
Alexel Kisselev, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, “Novel Supercomplexes of Proteasomes”
Eva Rzucidlo, M.D., Department of Surgery, “Novel Targets of Statins in the Treatment of Intimal Hyperplasia
R. Brooks Robey, M.D., Department of Medicine, “Role of Hexokinase II in Renal Injury”
Awarded from General Funds of the Hitchcock Foundation
David Axelrod, M.D, Department of Surgery, “The Impact of Distance and Time of Travel on the Economic and Clinical Outcome Following Organ Transplantation”
Randy Loftus, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology, “Intra-operative Horizontal Transmission of Potentially Pathogenic Bacterial Organisms”
Matthew Havrda, Ph.D., Department of Medicine, “Effect of Id2 Deficiency on Dopaminergic Neurons of the Substantia Nigra: Seeking Pathways of Potential Importance for Understanding Parkinson’s Disease”
Moe Zan, M.D., Department of Medicine, “Does a Decline in IgM Anti-Phosphorylcholine Antibody Responses Predict Response to Anti-CD20 Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis”
Timothy Gardner, M.D., Department of Medicine, “Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Analysis in Human Acute Pancreatitis”
Matthew Koff, M.D., MS., Department of Anesthesiology, “Non-invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring Pilot Study”
James Saunders, M.D., Department of Surgery, “Hearing Loss and Enviromental Factors in Nicaraguan Mining Communities”
Tiffany Blake Fellowships
Kathleen Lyons, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, “Functional Performance of Older Adults with Cancer”
Javier Ochoa-Reparaz, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology, “ Role of Commensal Bacteria in the Development of EAE, a CNS Inflammatory Disease”
Helmut Schumann Lectureship
November 19, 2008
JoAnn E. Manson, M.D., Dr.PH
Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine, Co-Director of the Connors Center for
Women’s Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School
“What Vitamins and Mineral Supplements Should you Take? Separating Fact from Fiction”
Helmut Schumann Fellowship
2008 – 2010
H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
“Epidemic of Diagnosis: Making People Sick in the Name of Health”
Hitchcock Foundation DMS
Student Research Prize
Benjamin Northrup, DMS IV, “Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Osteoarthritic Articular Cartilage of the Tibial Plateau Ex Vivo at 7.0T”
Daniel Kaser, DMS IV, “Anatomic and Functional Outcomes of Sacral Colpopexy with and without Concomitant Posterior Colporrhaphy in Women with Advance Pelvic Organ Prolapse”
Managed by the Foundation:
•24 active Hitchcock Foundation-sponsored research grants.
•322 Advised Funds – Research and educational funds managed by the Foundation for departments, sections and individuals at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
•258 Sponsored Research Funds – Research funded from sources outside the Hitchcock Foundation; generally clinical studies or educational programs funded by pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment research and development companies or other corporate or foundation sources.
Residents’ Revolving Loan Fund
The Residents’ Revolving Loan Fund provides emergency loans to resident doctors while in training at DHMC.
•22 outstanding loans