LEBANON – Scott W. Rodi, MD, MPH, FACEP, has been named Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Rodi’s appointment follows a national search to fill this important role. He has served as interim chair since 2020.

As the clinical leader and department Chair, Rodi is responsible for the overall direction, operations, and management of the department, including the delivery of emergency medicine services, faculty development, graduate medical education, and providing telemedicine across Dartmouth Health’s service area through the TeleED program. As an academic leader at Geisel, Rodi will be responsible for the department’s educational functions, which include teaching and training medical students, and residents.

“Dr. Rodi successfully led the emergency department through some of the most challenging times in recent memory from navigating the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic to managing ongoing staffing shortages and unprecedented patient census numbers,” said Edward J. Merrens, MD, chief clinical officer of Dartmouth Health. “His appointment to the role of emergency medicine chair is well-deserved and we look forward to his continued leadership in the department of emergency medicine.

“I am pleased that Dr. Rodi has taken on this important role,” said Duane Compton, PhD, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine. “He provided key leadership in the formation of Emergency Medicine as a stand-alone department and has been a strong advocate for the department’s academic mission. I look forward to working with him to advance the department’s educational and research activities.”

Rodi joined DHMC and Dartmouth in 2000. He attended medical school at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, and holds a bachelor’s in biology and master’s of public health from Dartmouth College. He served as interim section chief for emergency medicine at DHMC from 2018 to 2020. Rodi has been in leadership roles within DHMC emergency medicine since 2005, including medical director and section chief for emergency medicine, medical director for TeleED, regional medical director for DHART, and founder and co-director of the Center for Rural Emergency Services and Trauma.

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