The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) is an organization within

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

"dedicated to improving healthcare through education, research, policy reform, leadership improvement, and communication with patients and the public." It was founded in 1988 by

John Wennberg John E. "Jack" Wennberg (born June 2, 1934) is the pioneer and leading researcher of unwarranted variation in the healthcare industry. In four decades of work, Wennberg has documented the geographic variation in the healthcare that patients receive ...

as the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS); a reorganization in 2007 led to TDI's current structure. The institute provides a graduate-level education program involving elements of both Dartmouth's Graduate Arts and Sciences Programs and the

Geisel School of Medicine The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is the graduate medical school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The fourth oldest medical school in the United States, it was founded in 1797 by New England physician Nathan Smith. It is o ...

. It grants

Masters in Public Health The Master of Public Health or Master of Philosophy in Public Health (M.P.H.), Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH), Master of Medical Science in Public Health (MMSPH) and the Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.), International Masters for Healt ...

degrees as well as

Master of Science A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...

and Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy and Clinical Science degrees. The institute is located at One Medical Center Drive, WTRB, Level 5 on the Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital campus, Lebanon, NH. The institute's largest policy product is the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which documents

unwarranted variation Unwarranted variation (or geographic variation) in health care service delivery refers to medical practice pattern variation that cannot be explained by illness, medical need, or the dictates of evidence-based medicine. It is one of the causes of lo ...

in the American healthcare system. Dr. Anna Tosteson has served as interim director since October 2018, when former director

Elliott S. Fisher Elliott S. Fisher is a health policy researcher and advocate for improving health system performance in the United States. He helped develop the concept of accountable care organizations and championed their adoption by Medicare. The development of ...

and chief of strategy Adam Keller were placed on paid administrative leave following a complaint about conduct in the workplace. The investigation into the misconduct concluded in April 2019 and resulted in Fisher's demotion and Keller's resignation. This followed the resignation of Professor

H. Gilbert Welch H. Gilbert Welch is an American academic physician and cancer researcher. He was an internist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont, as well as a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health ...

in 2018 after Dartmouth College concluded he committed plagiarism. As a condition of his return directly set by the Geisel School of Medicine, Fisher has been banned physically from the 5th floor of the Williamson Building, where most of TDI is housed, for a period of two years.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Dartmouth College Health Policy and Clinical Practice Program Health policy in the United States