Dana Cook Grossman
Dana Cook Grossman has been the director of publications at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) since 1986. In that role, she is the editor of DARTMOUTH MEDICINE, a quarterly magazine that has won dozens of awards from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Medical Writers' Association, and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. The Office of Publications also produces a three-times-a-year newsletter, the DMS Alumni News & Notes, and oversees occasional special publications projects. She worked closely with medical historian Constance Putnam on two major books—a biography of DMS's founder (Improve Perfect and Perpetuate: Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education) and a history of DMS (The Science We Have Loved and Taught: Dartmouth Medical School's First Two Centuries), published by University Press of New England in 1998 and 2004, respectively. And Dana was the coeditor, with Dr. Heinz Valtin, of Great Issues for Medicine in the 21st Century: Ethical and Social Issues Arising out of Advances in the Biomedical Sciences, published in 1999 by the New York Academy of Sciences.
Dana has been very active with professional organizations as well. She was the cofounder of the Ivy-Atlantic Medical Alumni Magazine Association, a consortium of the magazine staffs of 16 top-ranked medical schools; since the group's establishment in 1988, she has served three terms as its president. She has also held many positions in the Group on Institutional Advancement of the Association of American Medical Colleges—including as a track chair for the group's annual meeting; as a member of the Communications Committee; as the Northeast Regional Chair; as a judge in its Awards for Excellence Competition; on an ad hoc committee charged with assessing and updating the awards competition; and, on an ongoing basis, as a presenter or moderator at numerous meetings. In addition, she has served since 1999 as a member of the Editorial Board of Brown Medicine magazine.
From 1983 to 1986, Dana was associate editor of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, a publication for undergraduate alumni of Dartmouth College; before that, she was class notes editor of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. She has worked for Dartmouth since 1975, when she was named assistant director of public relations for the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College's performing arts center. Her professional background also includes experience as director of public affairs at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, a community hospital in Lebanon, N.H., and as a newspaper reporter and editor.
She holds an A.B. in political science from Brown University and completed the Stanford Professional Publishing Course, a program for mid-career publishing professionals, in 1999. She has also long been active in civic activities, including serving for nine years on her town's school board, and she is a nationally certified track and field official.
Dana can be reached by e-mail at Dana.C.Grossman@Dartmouth.edu