College Fellow named Dartmouth Medical School's senior associate dean for medical education

Richard J. Simons, MD, FACP, has been named senior associate dean for medical education and associate vice president for health affairs at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H.

Dr. Simons, who is currently the vice dean for educational affairs at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, received his medical degree in 1981 from Penn State College of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan Hospital. He served as chief resident and instructor in the department of medicine at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and completed a geriatrics fellowship at the University of North Carolina. He is board certified in both internal medicine and geriatrics.

A leader in medical education, Dr. Simons has served on committees for the National Board of Medical Examiners, the In-Service Training Exam for Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Internal Medicine. He will become a College Master at Internal Medicine 2012 later this month.

More information about Dr. Simons' appointment is online.