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Top Medicine Researchers at Dartmouth College for 2026
Researchers at Dartmouth College are contributing a wide range of work in Medicine, from physiology and imaging to immunology, public health, and medical education. Taken together, these recent publications show a community that is moving between basic mechanisms, clinical questions, and the practical challenges of care delivery.
Below, you’ll find a snapshot of the scholars whose recent output stood out most in the last year, along with the themes that appear most often across their work.
Featured Researchers
Margaret R. Karagas
Margaret R. Karagas focused on Molecular Biology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, with recent work spanning exposomics, early-life body mass index trajectories, and maternal cardiometabolic risk factors.
Activity over the last year: 25 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Tor D. Wager
Tor D. Wager’s recent publications center on Cognitive Neuroscience and Physiology, including chronic pain self-management, allostatic–interoceptive mapping, and brainstem analgesic circuitry.
Activity over the last year: 16 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Ayushya Ajmani
Ayushya Ajmani drew on Pharmacology and Physiology in recent papers examining the ethics of artificial intelligence in residency screening, administrative tasks, and patient contributions.
Activity over the last year: 14 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Ethical implications of artificial intelligence in residency applicant screening (May 2025)
- The good, the bad, and the ugly: Ethical considerations regarding artificial intelligence assistance in administrative physician tasks (Feb 2025)
- Disclosure, donorship, and duty: The ethics of patient contributions (Jul 2025)
Marcus Shaker
Marcus Shaker’s work sits at the intersection of Immunology and Allergy, Physiology, and Pharmacology, with publications on postgraduate education, clinical negotiation, and patient-centered allergy care.
Activity over the last year: 14 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Susan B. Roberts
Susan B. Roberts concentrated on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, and Clinical Psychology, with studies on energy intake measurement, obesity, and the determinants of the weight-reduced state.
Activity over the last year: 16 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Predictive equation derived from 6,497 doubly labelled water measurements enables the detection of erroneous self-reported energy intake (Jan 2025)
- Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum (Jul 2025)
- The Physiology of the WEight-Reduced State (POWERS) study: environmental, psychological, and social determinants of health (Sep 2025)
Brian W. Pogue
Brian W. Pogue’s recent Medicine research spans Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine through work on dosimetry, photodynamic priming, and therapy guidance.
Activity over the last year: 12 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Design and characterization of a novel scintillator array for UHDR PBS proton therapy surface dosimetry (May 2025)
- Photodynamic priming with red light triggers adaptive immune responses in a pancreatic cancer mouse model (Feb 2025)
- AAPM Task Group Report 274: Fluence rate dosimetry for photodynamic therapy (PDT) (Jan 2025)
Margaret E. Ackerman
Margaret E. Ackerman worked across Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Virology, and Immunology, with recent studies on T cell repertoires, HIV-1 broadly neutralising antibodies, and respiratory virus antibodies.
Activity over the last year: 14 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- The endogenous antigen-specific CD8+ T cell repertoire is composed of unbiased and biased clonotypes with differential fate commitments (Feb 2025)
- Safety, pharmacokinetics, and neutralisation activity of PGDM1400LS, a V2 specific HIV-1 broadly neutralising antibody, infused intravenously or subcutaneously in people without HIV-1 in the USA (HVTN 140/HPTN 101 part A): a first-in-human, phase 1 randomised trial (May 2025)
- Binding and neutralising antibodies to respiratory syncytial virus and influenza A virus in serum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of healthy adults in the United States: A cross-sectional study (Mar 2025)
Thomas Thesen
Thomas Thesen’s recent publications bring together Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on AI in health professions education and medical learning.
Activity over the last year: 10 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Artificial Intelligence in Health Professions Education assessment: AMEE Guide No. 178 (Jan 2025)
- Disruption of functional network development in children with prenatal Zika virus exposure revealed by resting-state EEG (Feb 2025)
- A generative AI teaching assistant for personalized learning in medical education (Nov 2025)
What Dartmouth College's Medicine Community Is Working On
Across Dartmouth’s recent Medicine output, Physiology appears most often, signaling sustained interest in how the body functions across health and disease. Cognitive Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging also recur frequently, pointing to active work on brain systems, treatment mechanisms, and diagnostic or therapeutic technologies. Alongside these areas, the presence of Molecular Biology and related subfields suggests a steady link between foundational biomedical science and clinically oriented questions.- Physiology - seen across 4 of the featured researchers
- Cognitive Neuroscience - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Pharmacology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Molecular Biology - seen across 1 of the featured researchers
These recent publications reflect a Dartmouth community that is actively connecting laboratory insight, clinical practice, and education in Medicine. If you want to keep exploring related work, browse the researcher profiles below and consider using Resub to support your own literature discovery, manuscript formatting, and submission prep.
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