The purpose of the Hitchcock Foundation, as stated in the bylaws, is "to aid and advance the study and investigation of human ailments and injuries, and the causes, prevention, relief, and cure thereof, and the study and investigation of problems of hygiene, health and public welfare, and the promotion of medical, surgical and scientific learning, skill, education and investigation, and to engage in and conduct and to aid and assist in medical, surgical and scientific research in the broadest sense."
Videotaped lectures
The Rational Unfattening of America: How We Get There From Here (Windows Media Player file)
David L. Katz MD, MPH
September, 21, 2006Hitchcock Foundation Helmut Schumann Lecture 2004 (Windows Media Player file)
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, "Understanding Social Vulnerability: Implications for Healthful Living."
Upcoming Events:
24th Annual Helmut Schumann Lecture
"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Insights on Stress and Illness."
Robert Sapolsky, PhD
September 26, at 7:30 P.M., Auditorium E-F
Dr. Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neurosciences at Stanford, will be at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to present The Hitchcock Foundation's Helmut Schumann Lecture, "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Insights on Stress and Illness." Humans, unlike many animals who have worry about predators, live well enough to have the luxury to make ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress. Long term or chronic stress, according to Sapolsky, can result in a multitude of bad outcomes, such as arteriosclerosis, colitis, diabetes, and neurological damage. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Contact Information:
Michael Shoob
One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH 03756
(603) 653-1231
Michael.Shoob@Dartmouth.EDU
