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 most comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region and the first integrative medicine children’s health system in the country. Dartmouth Health Children’s is fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored in Lebanon, NH, by Dartmouth Health’s Golisano Children’s Hospital (also a member of the nationwide Golisano Children’s Alliance): home of the highest acuity neonatal intensive care unit and only pediatric intensive care unit in New Hampshire, along with the only adolescent medical-psychiatry unit in northern New England. Through a unique partnership with the state of New Hampshire at Hampstead Hospital, Dartmouth Health Children’s also provides the state’s only inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents. Dartmouth Health Children’s advances knowledge through groundbreaking research and education as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and delivers the best patient- and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents in a range of settings across New Hampshire and Vermont. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in Manchester, NH, with pediatric primary care at nearly every Dartmouth Health member location.