Lori Alvord

Lori Arviso Alvord, MD, is Associate Dean of Student and Multicultural Affairs at Dartmouth Medical School. She is also an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Psychiatry, and a board-certified practicing general surgeon. She received her Doctorate of Medicine from Stanford University in 1985. Dr. Alvord performs clinical research in surgical outcomes in American Indian populations, and is funded by a National Institute of Health grant from the National Institute of Aging. She is also a member of the NIH's National Advisory Council for the National Institute of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Her memoir is The Scalpel and the Silver Bear (Bantam, 1999),