Department Chair of Emergency Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Scott Rodi, MD, MPH, FACEP, is the Department Chair of Emergency Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Rodi serves as Regional Director of Emergency Medicine and Regional Director of Prehospital Services (DHART) for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System. He currently holds Telemedicine appointments at eight medical centers throughout rural New Hampshire and Vermont.
Dr. Rodi is the Founder and former Medical Director of the Center for Rural Emergency Services and Trauma (CREST), which was developed to advance education of rural emergency providers, perform research in rural emergency care and support operational improvements among rural emergency departments in rural northern New England. CREST has received $2.5 million in grants from HRSA since 2009 and currently includes eighteen regional hospitals.
In addition to working at Dartmouth-Hitchcock from 2000-2015, he served as Medical Director for Hospital Services at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, VT, from 2015-2017. He has worked as an emergency medicine physician at hospitals in New Hampshire, Vermont, and California.
Dr. Rodi received his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College, and earned his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NH. He completed a General Surgery Internship at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, CA, was an Orthopedic Surgery resident at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, NY from 1993-1995, and completed his Emergency Medicine Residency in 1998 at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. He received a Master’s in Public Health from the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth in 2005.