Scott Rodriguez, MD, is an internal medicine resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, N.H.
Daniel Albert, MD, is a professor of medicine and pediatrics in the Section of Rheumatology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is also a professor in the Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He specializes in rheumatic disease of adults and children.
Kenton Powell, MD, is an internal medicine physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, an assistant professor of medicine at Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth, program director of the Primary Care Track Internal Medicine Residency Program and associate program director of Categorical Track Internal Medicine Residency Program.
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