Faculty Spotlight: Conversation with Dr. Danette Flint

 

Name (pronouns): Danette Flint (she/her)

Hometown: Alexander, NY

Year at Geisel/Dartmouth: 2009-2013

Career focus/interest: Cardiovascular Critical Care / Inpatient Cardiology

The best thing about Geisel/Dartmouth is: An academic center located rurally!

Favorite spot in the Upper Valley: Anywhere I can sit in the sun and dip my feet in the water

Favorite activity in the Upper Valley: Spending time outside with close friends and family

Favorite book/poem: Nowhere Else on Earth (Josephine Humphreys)

Favorite song/piece of music: Ten Years Gone (Led Zeppelin)

Favorite quote: “All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost” (kind of a poem, kind of a quote – Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien)

Most treasured travel: I love national parks and have been to many. When I was 15 my family traveled around the US for 7 weeks (road trip/camping) visiting many of them. The last trip I took with my husband we flew into Salt Lake City, rented a car and drove through the Grand Tetons to Yellowstone, Big Sky, Snake River Plain, the Sawtooth Mountains, Columbia River Gorge, Mt. Hood and to Cannon Beach OR (where The Goonies was filmed) and then flew home from Portland OR.

Guilty pleasure: Mani/Pedi

 

Short Bio: Originally from Alexandria, NY, Dannette Flint is currently a staff Cardiologist and Cardiac Intensivist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. She obtained her medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in 2013 and her bachelor’s degree from Colgate University in 2009, where she majored in chemistry. Following medical school, she remained at Dartmouth and completed her training in Internal Medicine (2016), Chief Resident (2017), Cardiology (2020) and Critical Care (2021). Additionally, she is currently a course director for cardiovascular medicine course taught to second year medical students at Geisel School of Medicine.