Leadership Profile: September, 2019

Chief Research Officer Dartmouth-Hitchcock

Associate Dean of Clinical Research Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

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The OpportunityDartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH) and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have opened a search for a dynamic and engaging leader to provide strategic direction, oversight and collaborative leadership between the re-search functions at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health is an organization with significant depth in clinical and translational research. By pro-viding a centralized infrastructure to enhance patient safety, promote quality research, ensure fiscal and regulatory compliance, and encourage research collaboration, there exists a world-class opportunity that blends a highly attrac-tive environment with exceptional career opportunities.

The Geisel School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s long-standing and deeply rooted commitments to research provide faculty, trainees and staff with state-of-the-art facilities as well as the important support they need at all stages of the research process. By linking other collaborators, facilitating studies and clinical trials, and helping navigate the ad-ministrative and regulatory landscape, our researchers have the foundation for research innovation and excellence.

“ Our growing research infrastructure, in continuing collaboration with our colleagues at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, has Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health poised to join the ranks of the nation’s major academic health systems. From our NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science Award program – SYNERGY - to our multidisciplinary research projects in all areas of medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock researchers are exploring innovative solutions to some of the major health issues facing our nation in more than 500 studies or trials that are actively enrolling across our system. We look forward to finding an experienced, forward-looking clinician-researcher to assume the new role of Chief Research Officer and lead us to the next level of research excellence.”

~ Joanne Conroy, MD President and CEO - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health

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Full Position Description

Chief Research Officer, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Associate Dean of Clinical Research, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

The Chief Research Officer/Associate Dean for Clinical Research will have the primary responsibilities of leading the strategic growth of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) research portfolio and providing oversight of research-related operations and research compliance within D-H. In collaboration with the CTSA Director, the CRO will also foster productive collaborations among research programs within the broader Dartmouth community. The individual will serve as a member of the D-H and Geisel senior leadership teams and will be expected to make important contributions to the development and delivery of all key research strategies. Additionally, this role includes faculty/teaching opportunities at the medical school.

“The greatest challenges in human health will be overcome through the seamless integration of biomedical discovery and care delivery—the very space where Geisel excels. This would not be possible without our close clinical, research, and educational partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock.”

~ Duane Compton, PhD - Dean, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and implement a forward-looking strategic plan for growth of the research portfolio (clinical, translational, population-based) that will have impact locally, nationally and even internationally and that will promote a culture of innovation within D-H;

• Develop strategies to promote the entrepreneurial efforts of faculty and the commercialization of D-H research including partnership with external partners;

• Oversee the D-H research budget aligned to the strategic plan including financial commitments for faculty recruitment and retention, capital equipment, and research programs. Promote steps to facilitate long-term sustainability of the research programs;

• Oversee the D-H Office of Research Operations and ensure that it provides outstanding service in the areas of grants management as well as compliance with all federal, state, and local requirements for clinical research programs;

• Oversee the D-H Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects and ensure that all clinical research programs adhere to the highest ethical standards in collaboration with the D-H Research Compliance Officer and the D-H Office of General Counsel;

• Serve as an Associate Director for Dartmouth’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), SYNERGY, working with the SYNERGY Director to ensure that SYNERGY is optimally integrated into D-H’s larger research initiatives, and that D-H effectively participates in the national CTSA consortium;

• Co-chair the Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Research Steering Committee;

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Full Position Description (continued)

• Serve as D-H’s principal research liaison to Dartmouth College (DC) leadership and create strategies to build effective synergies between D-H and DC-sponsored research programs;

• Work closely with the Joint Development Office (JDO) to facilitate philanthropic/foundation support for D-H’s research goals/missions;

• Oversee allocation of research space and equipment to programs and departments/centers;

• Oversee training and communication to the members of the research community;

• Review and in collaboration with appropriate partners, respond to all requests for waivers to institutional policies related to research program support and sponsorship;

• Provide appropriate oversight of research training programs;

• Provide ongoing evaluation of existing research programs;

• Foster and facilitate proposal development and promote interaction for large multi-disciplinary research opportunities.

REPORTING STRUCTURE:

• Chief Clinical Officer, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health

• Dean – Geisel School of Medicine

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• D-H Chief Academic Officer/Dean, Geisel School of Medicine

• Director, SYNERGY

• Clinical Chairs & Center Directors, Dartmouth-Hitchcock

• VP Office of Research Operations

• D-H Senior Operations Team

QUALIFICATIONS:

• An MD, MD/PhD or other equivalent terminal degree and with academic credentials sufficient to meet eligibility for appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or (preferred) Professor

• Outstanding scientific background with an established record of obtaining extramural funds

• Demonstrated experience in leadership and management of research strategy and operations

• Excellent interpersonal skills

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The Office of Research Operations is the centralized administrative and operational “hub” across all Dartmouth-Hitchcock departments working to create mechanisms for connectedness between all research sites across D-HH. Through these important collaborations, we strive to enable the achievement of excellence across the research community. We achieve this by facilitating access to innovative and collaborative resources, applying those resources, and assisting with the coordination of services and activities. It is in this way that we are able to successfully catalyze interdisciplinary research across the translational pipeline.

Specifically the Office of Research Operations is able to implement their operational expertise to:

• Grants and Contracts

• Research Space Allocation and Management

• Research Capital Equipment Purchases

• Technology Transfer

• Research Communications

• Research Budgeting and Contracts

• Human Subjects Research Compliance

About the Office of Research Operations

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About SYNERGYDartmouth SYNERGY: Clinical and Translational Science Institute

The mission of SYNERGY, an NIH-funded CTSA Program, is to create a sustainable academic and physical home at Dartmouth (including the schools of Dartmouth College, Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the White River Junction VA) for the discipline of clinical and translational science. Our vision is to foster discovery, improve the infrastructure for clinical and translational science, nurture a cross-disciplinary collaborative spirit, enhance translational research training, and facilitate the development of innovative and efficient solutions for translating scientific discoveries into practice and improved population health.

By creating an academic and physical home for the intellectual discipline of clinical and translational science, SYNERGY is transforming Dartmouth’s research and training environment. Specifically, SYNERGY:

• Nurtures innovation by building connections and providing resources for discovery.

• Addresses barriers to translational research.

• Fosters collaborative interactions between basic, translational, and health services researchers.

• Accelerates the translation of discovery into clinical practice and the community.

• Aligns Dartmouth research more completely with local, regional, and national partners.

• Expands the resources available for improving population health, working with communities and health care services throughout Northern New England and beyond.

• Enriches training and funding mechanisms for new and established researchers.

• Facilitates the development of innovative and efficient solutions for translating scientific discoveries into practice and improved population health.

• Addresses issues of special importance to our rural northern New England region, and to the wider CTSA national consortium

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Who We Are as a Health System

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH) is New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer as well as the state’s largest health care system and private employer. Primarily serving New Hampshire and Vermont as well as patients from across northern New England, it is a non-profit and integrated health care delivery network of more than 1,800 providers in almost every area of medicine, and five member organizations all of whom possess the same commitment to provide the highest quality of care to the nearly 2 million community members we serve throughout the region.

The D-HH Family: Caring for our Communities in Extraordinary Ways

The D-HH system is committed to caring for the communities we serve in a timely, coordinated, compassionate and patient-centered way. As part of one health system patients are moved through the care continuum of assessment, diagnosis, treatment or intervention and recovery by a coordinated team to manage procedures or for disease diagnosis. D-HH is committed to providing superior patient outcomes, ease of access to state-of-the-art care and cost transparency. From providing nationally recognized cancer care, to fighting the opioid epidemic, to partnering with community organizations in improving the health of our region, the D-HH system is dedicated to providing the very best care today and well into the future.

About Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health

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WHO WE ARE

D-HH is the parent company to a number of hospitals and health care organizations across the region.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: D-HH is anchored by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), our flagship academic medical center located in Lebanon, New Hampshire that is composed of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, a 396-bed hospital founded in 1893, and the Lebanon division of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, a large multi-specialty physician group practice founded in 1927 which provides medical services to patients, as well as medical education to clinicians and research through its six main sites in Lebanon, Keene, Manchester, Nashua and Concord, New Hampshire and Bennington, Vermont, as well as through a network of smaller practice sites at 24 locations throughout the region. DHMC was recently named one of the 100 Great Hospitals in America by Becker’s Hospital Review, as well as ranked New Hampshire’s Best Hospital for 2019-20, and cited for excellence in 13 clinical programs by US News and World Report�

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center: Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center is one of the nation’s premier facilities for cancer treatment and research. It is one of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. We deliver compassionate, patient- and family-centered care through our 16 multidisciplinary disease-specific Clinical Oncology Groups, robust Patient and Family Support Services, and a dedicated Oncology Nurse Navigator Program. We also offer patients extensive opportunities to participate in clinical research, with more than 250 open clinical trials. The Center is also home to four NCI-funded Research Programs, including Cancer Biology and Therapy, Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy, Cancer Population Sciences and Translational Engineering in Cancer, as well as extensive programming in education and in community outreach and engagement.

Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth: As New Hampshire’s only children’s hospital, the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD) provides an extended system of care that offers advanced pediatric services. CHaD is recognized by the Children’s Hospital Association as a “children’s hospital within a hospital”. CHaD is one of more than 220 children’s hospitals in the United States providing care specifically focused on children.

Academic and Research Partnerships: DHMC serves as one of the primary teaching hospitals and one of the major research partners for the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, offering 49 accredited medical education training programs to nearly 400 residents and fellows annually. As New Hampshire’s largest and most active research center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock – in partnership with Geisel – conducts a wide range of research in basic, clinical and translational science, and applied research projects in various medical specialties. Dartmouth-Hitchcock is also the clinical partner to Dartmouth College in carrying out the objectives of SYNERGY, as well as with The Dartmouth Institute (TDI), a pioneer in health services research. TDI research has generated significant new insights regarding geographic variations in healthcare delivery, the adaption and integration of payment reform models, and the factors influencing physician decision-making and patient-clinician communication. Through this work, TDI faculty help policy makers, systems leaders, and healthcare providers improve practices. This includes the development of innovative “learning health systems” in which patient experience and the outcomes of real healthcare practice generate the data that researchers need to improve care. At D-H and other sites around the country, TDI investigators are testing new strategies and models to improve patient-clinician communication and give patients the tools they need to make more informed decisions about their care.

About D-H Health (continued)

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MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS

D-HH is committed to providing high-quality, compassionate and convenient care to patients throughout the region and to provide it, when possible, close to home. The D-HH family of members can coordinate resources and plan jointly to meet the health and health care needs of the populations we serve.

Our member organizations include: Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, New Hampshire, Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, New Hampshire, Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor, Vermont, New London Hospital in New Hampshire, and the Visiting Nurses and Hospice for New Hampshire and Vermont.

D-HH SYSTEM LEADERSHIP

Joanne M. Conroy, MD, serves as CEO and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, a role she has held since arriving in 2017.

Prior to her appointment, Dr. Conroy served as CEO of Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (formerly the Lahey Clinic), a large, integrated delivery system with more than 1,400 physicians, 18,000 employees, $4 million in grant funding for medical research and $2.0 billion in annual revenue.

From 2008 to 2014, she served as Chief Health Care Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), focusing on the interface between the health care delivery system and academic medicine, paying particular attention to how health care in academic settings can manage the challenge of health care reform and the operational implications

of the Affordable Care Act. Dr. Conroy represented the interests of approximately 350 teaching hospitals and health systems, including 40 Veterans Affairs medical centers, through the AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems.

From 2001 to 2008, she served as Executive Vice President of Atlantic Health, Chief Operating Officer/ President of Morristown Memorial Hospital, a 695-bed flagship teaching hospital.

From 1986 to 2001, Dr. Conroy served many roles at the Medical University of South Carolina, including Vice President for Medical Affairs, Chair of Anesthesiology and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Medicine.

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TAKING PRIDE IN WHO WE ARE

• New Hampshire’s Best Hospital as noted by U.S. News & World Report

• NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center entering its fifth decade of continuous NCI designation

• First in nation Shared Decision-Making Center

• The academic health system partner of Dartmouth’s NIH-funded CTSA, SYNERGY.

• One of the first health systems selected to be model Accountable Care Organization

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team (DHART) provides both air and ground specialized emergency medical transport services throughout northern New England

• New Hampshire’s only full-service Children’s Hospital

• Center for Surgical Innovation, new innovative ways to explore surgery and technology

• Value Institute to help lead change in health care

• Transparency of Information – charges and results published on the web

• Heart and Vascular Center with <4% mortality rate, among the best in the nation

• Quality and Safety scores of DHMC lead New England for large teaching hospitals

• Gold seal accreditation by the Joint Commission

• Named to New Hampshire Magazine Hall of Fame as one of NH’s best Companies to work for

• Listed on Becker’s Hospital Review as one of 150 Great Places to Work in Health Care

• D-HH Workforce Readiness Institute recognized by U.S. Department of Labor for job training program

About D-H Health (continued)

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The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is a community of resourceful innovators who dare to transform the world. Since its founding in 1797, through pioneering biomedical discoveries, a persistent willingness to challenge the status quo in health care, and the training of physicians and scientists who take on the world’s problems as their own, Geisel has amplified Dartmouth’s academic vitality and global impact.

Geisel is distinctive among medical schools for its equal strength in biomedical discovery and health care delivery science, and its integration of the two across its research and educational programs. Central to the school’s mission is the recognition that as scientists break new ground in understanding health and disease, these advances must be made widely accessible to those who need them. And while medicine embraces the power of science and technology, medical practice must remain intensely personal, honoring the needs, values, and individual biology of each person.

The faculty at the Geisel School of Medicine is nationally recognized for research excellence, including leadership in genetics, bioinformatics, population health, cancer, cystic fibrosis, neuroscience, psychiatry, and healthcare delivery science research, among others. The more than 2,000 members of our faculty are drawn not only from core departments and institutes within Dartmouth College and our three major clinical partners: Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H), the White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center (WRJ VAMC), and California Pacific Medical Center, as well as from community practices from Maine to Alaska.

Geisel has strong research ties, not only with D-H and the WRJ VAMC, but also with Dartmouth’s School of Arts & Sciences, Guarini School of Graduate & Advances Studies, Thayer School of Engineering, and Tuck School of Business.

While the scope of research at Geisel is broad; some of its research highlights include:

• Has total research funding that is approximately $130 million and accounts for more than 70 percent of Dartmouth College’s total research activity

• It is home to three NIH Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBREs) and the state’s NIH INBRE (IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence) award

• In concert with D-H, is home to the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, one of the 51 NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers

• One of 50 NIH designated Clinical & Translational Science Institutes (CTSA)• Pioneers in the field of Health Care Delivery Science with the Dartmouth Atlas• Pioneers in the development of vaccine treatments against tuberculosis (DAR-901)• Pioneers in the development of bi-specific antibodies for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease• Pioneers in the development of checkpoint inhibitors in cancer immunotherapy• Pioneers in the development of shared decision-making tools and co-production models in health care delivery• Pioneers in educational programs to provide value-based health care that is ethically, scientifically and

managerially sound (MHCDS)• Pioneers in the discovery of the fundamental mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms (Clock genes)• Pioneers in the discovery and understanding the function of micro RNAs

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About the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (continued)Websites for Key Centers and Institutes at Geisel and its academic partners related to support of the biomedical research enterprise:

• ALS Center• bioMT: Institute for Biomolecular Targeting (NIH COBRE)• C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth• Center for Genomic Medicine• Center for Health Equity• Center for Learning and Professional Development• Center for Molecular, Cellular and Translational Immunology Research (NIH COBRE)• Center for Molecular Epidemiology (NIH COBRE)• Center for Program Design and Evaluation at Dartmouth (CPDE)• Center for Quantitative Biology (NIH COBRE)• Center for Surgical Innovation• Center for Technology and Behavioral Health• Children’s Environmental Health & Disease Prevention Research Center• Collaboratory for Healthcare and Biomedical Informatics• Dartmouth Biomedical Engineering Center• Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging• Dartmouth Lung Biology Center for Molecular, Cellular, and Translational Research (NIH COBRE)• Informatics Collaboratory for Design, Development and Dissemination (ic3d)• National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder• New Hampshire IDeA Network of Biological Research Excellence (NH-INBRE)• Norris Cotton Cancer Center• The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice

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Since 2014, Duane Compton has served 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 14 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, NH.

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Leadership

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a major academic medical center located in the beautify Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont, an area always highly ranked when it comes to measuring quality of life. In fact, the State of New Hampshire’s “Life Index”, a compilation of independent national studies on quality of life among the 50 states, rates New Hampshire as #1 and Vermont as #3. These independent evaluations confirm what the employees of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health already know…that New Hampshire and Vermont are very special places to live, work and do business. There are many reasons why our states scored so well in these surveys, including the fact that we have some of the most advanced educational institutions, best health care, and diverse cultural and recreational offerings you will find anywhere in the country.

It is this diverse quality of life that brings vibrancy to the towns and villages of the “Upper Valley”. People live here because they want to. Here are just a few other reasons why people love this area of New England.

• New Hampshire has no personal income or sales tax.

• New Hampshire has 33 and Vermont has 19 alpine and cross country ski resorts.

• In the most recent rankings from U.S. News and World Report for quality education by state, New Hampshire ranked 5th and Vermont ranked 8th nationwide.

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Please address all cover letters and correspondence to:

Steven D. Leach, MD Director, Norris Cotton Cancer Center Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

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