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Joanne M. Conroy

Joanne M. Conroy

Joanne M. Conroy, MD, is president and CEO of Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire.

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Gun safety is public health, not politics

By: and - November 8, 2023

The mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 25 shattered the false sense of security many of us in rural northern New England felt: that gun violence on such a scale could not happen in our backyard. It couldn’t happen in this bucolic setting, where someone who needs a hand gets it, and someone who […]

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The decision to end a pregnancy is a medical conversation, not a legal or political one

By: - July 1, 2022

As expected, and as many feared, the U.S. Supreme Court has rolled back the privacy rights of women to make their own choices about their health care in the official decision released last Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade. The decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – the Mississippi case that overturned Roe […]