Course Faculty

Name

Course Topic

Affiliation

Course Topic

Affiliation

Course Topic

Jennifer Croswell, MD, MPH
https://healthcaredelivery.cancer.gov/about/staff/bios/croswell.html

Medical officer, NIH Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences

Multicancer detection tests: Pandora or Grail?

Susan Ellenberg, PhD
https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p4930413 sbrawley.html

Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Vaccine Development, Approval and Anti-Vax Disinformation

Baruch Fischhoff, PhD
https://www.cmu.edu/epp/people/faculty/baruch-fischhoff.html

Howard Heinz University Professor, Institute for Politics & and Strategy; and Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Judgement and Decision Making

Paul Goldberg
https://cancerletter.com/

Editor, Cancer Letter

How I Got the Story

MK Haber, FNP-C, IBCLC,
https://thosenerdygirls.org/nerdygirls/contributing-writer-mk-haber-fnp-c-ibclc/

Those Nerdy Girls, Content Manager, Contributing Writer

Lessons learned on the COVID-19
infodemic frontlines.

Liz Hernadi

Independent health and science journalist

Responsible Use of Anecdote

Brendan Nyhan, PhD
https://govt.dartmouth.edu/people/brendan-nyhan

James O. Freedman Presidential Professor; Professor of Government at Dartmouth

(Mis)information

Barry Kramer, MD, MPH

Former Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI and former Editor, Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Cancer Screening / Overdiagnosis

Dan Rockmore
https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/daniel-rockmore

Professor of Math and Computer Science

Medicine and the Media meet AI

Timothy Wilt, MD, MPH
https://www.ccdor.research.va.gov/CCDORRESEARCH/investigators/Timothy_Wilt.asp

Director, Evidence-Based Synthesis Program, Minneapolis VA Health Care; Co-Director, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, University of Minnesota

Understanding of Diagnostic Tests Reported in the Medical Literature (or Advertised in the Media)

Elaine Vitale
https://www.library.dartmouth.edu/directory/f00426m

Medical librarian in the Dartmouth Libraries

Information Sources

Steven Woloshin, MD, MS
https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2022/woloshin-and-schwartz-receive-national-leadership-award-in-medical-decision-making/

Professor, Dartmouth Institute; and Founder, The Lisa Schwartz Foundation

Core Topics

Mitch Zeller, MD
https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/about-center-tobacco-products-ctp/mitch-zeller#Bio

Former Director, FDA Center for Tobacco Products

How the Sausage Gets Made at the FDA