Residency Leaders
Richard I. Rothstein, MD
Richard I. Rothstein, MD is Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Interim Chair of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine and of Surgery at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire. He is also the Associate Dean for Continuing Education at the Geisel School of Medicine.
Dr. Rothstein is a graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine (1980), and did his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, MA (1980-1983). He pursued his fellowship training in Gastroenterology at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH (1983-1985) joining the Geisel School of Medicine faculty in 1985.
Dr. Rothstein was Director of Gastroenterological Research and Director of the Gastrointestinal Motility Lab, before becoming GI section chief in 1997.
Dr. Rothstein has a special interest in esophageal function and disease. For over 14 years, he has participated in the research and development of endoscopic therapies for the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Dr. Rothstein's other interests include the endoscopic management of Barrett's esophagus , the evaluation and treatment of dysphagia, chemo-interventional trials for prevention of gastrointestinal neoplasia, the endoscopic treatment of obesity, the evolving field of NOTES (natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery), and the potential role of robotics in endoscopy.
Dr. Rothstein is a member of the editorial board of Surgical Innovation and a recent associate editor for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He actively participates in numerous committees for the American Gastroenterologic Association, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and American College of Gastroenterology. He is an ASGE representative to the NOSCAR committee (Natural Orifice Surgical Consortium for Assessment and Research) addressing the future of surgical technologies. He enjoys teaching colleagues, fellows, residents and medical students, and has twice received the Geisel School of Medicine's "Clinical Teacher-of-the-Year" award. He participates actively in national and international educational programs concerning current and future endoscopic technologies. He has been consistently funded in his research efforts for over 27 years and has continuously published papers, chapters and abstracts in his areas of interest.
With his wife Lia, a photographer and art educator, and two children, he has raised cows and sheep and enjoys using his 1948 Farmall C tractor.
Harley Friedman, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Dr. Friedman became Program Director in May 2003 after serving as Associate Program Director / Director of Ambulatory Education since 1998.
He earned his undergraduate degree in biology from McGill University and received his MD in 1994 from the University Massachusetts.
Dr. Friedman completed his residency training at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, joining the General Internal Medicine faculty at DHMC in 1997. He has been deeply involved with the residency program along with his rotating patient care duties on the inpatient wards, consult service, and GIM clinic. He is active in the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM), a national organization dedicated to the improvement of residency education.
Dr. Friedman spends most of his free time being entertained by his two young princesses and chasing after his two large dogs. He is fascinated by chaos theory and non-linear dynamics, and he is hopelessly addicted to Duplicate Bridge.
Kelly A. Kieffer, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Program Director, Primary Care Track; Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Dr. Kieffer became the PCT Program Director in October, 2002, after serving as the PCT Resident Curriculum Coordinator since January, 2002. She became Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the same time.
She earned her undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University. She is a graduate of the Joint Medical Program of the University of California, Berkeley/University of California San Francisco, a program emphasizing case-based and small group learning in the pre-clinical years. She graduated from the program with an MS from UC Berkeley and an MD from UCSF.
Dr. Kieffer completed her internship and residency at DHMC, served as Chief Medical Resident and remained here as a staff attending in the Section of General Internal Medicine. She serves on the Internship Selection Committee and Department of Medicine Education Committee.
Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her two young sons, running, skiing, and gardening.
Jonathan M. Ross, MD, FACP
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine
Dr. Ross received his B.A. from Brooklyn College and his MD from State University of New York. He completed his internship and residency at the New York University—Bellevue Medical Center in NY, NY. Before joining the faculty of the DHMC Dr. Ross was an Attending Physician at the Bellevue Hospital Center, Kings County Hospital and State University Hospital and the WRJ, VA Hospital.
Currently Dr. Ross is a General Internal Medicine physician in the Section of General Internal Medicine at the DHMC and he is also Director of the Department of Medicine Morbidity and Mortality Conference.
Gregory W. Froehlich, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; VA Residency Program Coordinator
Dr. Froehlich became the VA Residency Program Coordinator in June 2003.
He earned his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1982 and his MD in 1986 from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. In 1995 he received his MS from the Dartmouth School of Evaluative Clinical Sciences.
Dr. Froehlich completed his residency training at the University of Connecticut in 1989 followed by a one year Chief Residency. He did his GIM fellowship at the White River Junction VAH and after completion in 1996 he joined their faculty.
Dr. Froehlich is the author of various publications on primary care issues and is the PI on a research study involving the impact of patient education on repeated decisions to screen for prostate cancer.
James Carroll, MD, MME
Visiting Associate Professor of Medicine Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Director, Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship
Dr. Carroll completed his undergraduate studies at Amherst College in 1990, majoring in Biology. He earned his medical degree in 1994 from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, and stayed in Iowa City nearly a decade to complete his Internal Medicine Residency, Chief Residency, Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship, and research fellowship. He joined the University of Iowa College of Medicine faculty in 2002, and was promoted to Clinical Associate Professor in 2008. He was an Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency from 2005 until his move to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 2009. In 2010, Dr. Carroll received his Masters in Medical Education through the University of Iowa. After relocating from the Mississippi River Valley to the Upper Valley, he became an Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2009.
Dr. Carroll's professional interests include patient-centered medical education, critical care medicine, and pulmonary hypertension. His favorite color is purple.
Emily Cohen, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; VA Inpatient Residency Coordinator / Assistant Program Director
Dr. Cohen became Assistant Program Director in June 2010.
Dr. Cohen lived abroad in the Netherlands where she met and later married a Dutchman. She earned her MD in 2002 and PhD in 2005 both from the University of Amsterdam. The focus of her PhD was on clinical risk factors for cardiovascular disease in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). She combined her research activities with clinical duties at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. She worked in the outpatient vascular medicine clinic where she managed patients with (complex) lipid disorders and hypertension. She returned to the United States in 2005 to do her Internal Medicine residency training at DHMC. She completed her Chief Medical Residency in 2009 and joined the White River Junction VA staff as a full time hospitalist in August 2009.
Dr. Cohen's research interests are in quality improvement, infectious diseases and palliative care.
Hilary F. Ryder, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute; Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Dr. Ryder earned her undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago. After a brief stint as a geneticist, she received her MD in 2004 from Yale University School of Medicine. She will earn a Masters in Science through The Dartmouth Institute in 2012.
Dr. Ryder completed her internship and residency training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and then joined the faculty as Assistant Professor in the Section of Hospital Medicine. She serves on the Intern Selection Committee and Quality Assurance Committee for the Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. Ryder has a keen interest in education and also served as Medical Editor for SIMPLE, the most widely used on-line, case-based third-year medical clerkship curriculum. She is the author of several papers focused on educating patients, providers and lay readers of scientific journals. Her current work focuses on end-of-life decision making and transitions of care.
She became an Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2010 after serving for several months as a core faculty member.
