Two Dartmouth Health Children’s pediatric hospitalists were recently elected members of national pediatric societies. Samantha A. House, DO, MPH, was elected to the Society for Pediatric Research, and JoAnna K. Leyenaar, MD, MPH, MSc, was elected to the American Pediatric Society.
House, who serves as section chief of pediatric hospital medicine, is an associate professor in pediatrics and at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She attended medical school at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Maine and is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric hospital medicine. Her research focuses on pediatric high-value care and de-implementation— the process of discontinuing, removing, reducing or replacing a low-value clinical practice or intervention—and on health services for the most underserved pediatric patients—those residing in rural regions. House has published 26 peer-reviewed publications in major pediatric medical journals including Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatrics and JAMA Pediatrics.
Leyenaar is a professor of pediatrics and at the Dartmouth Institute at Geisel. She attended medical school at the McMaster University School of Medicine in Canada and is board-certified in pediatrics. Her research focuses on children with medical complexity, health services research regarding inpatient admission at pediatric versus general hospitals, rural-urban pediatric health disparities, and care delivery and models that can improve patient experience and healthcare value in pediatric inpatient care. Leyenaar conducted nationally-recognized research on the shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds for children and adolescents in New England, which was published in JAMA in 2023.
House and Leyenaar have also collaborated in research.
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Dartmouth Health Children’s is the only comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region with the first integrative medicine children’s hospital in the country. Fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored for more than 30 years by Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD) in Lebanon, NH, Dartmouth Health Children’s promotes health, advances knowledge, and delivers the best patient- and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents across New Hampshire and Vermont. Dartmouth Health Children’s conducts groundbreaking research and educates the next generations of health professionals as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Highly skilled, inclusive, and collaborative children’s health professionals provide care in multiple settings across the region. A unique partnership between DH and the state of New Hampshire provides the only inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents in the state at Hampstead Hospital. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at more than 20 locations, including all Dartmouth Health member locations, throughout New Hampshire and Vermont.