Faculty Spotlight: Conversation with Dr. Roshini Pinto-Powell

Roshini Pinto-Powell, MD, FACP

Professor of Medicine and Medical Education

Associate Dean of Admissions

Co-Director of On Doctoring

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

 

Name (pronouns): Roshini Pinto-Powell, she/her/hers

Hometown: Hanover, NH

Year at Geisel: 28

Career interest: Medical Education

The best thing about Geisel is: The small and warm community.

Favorite spot in the Upper Valley: Mount Cardigan and the Rail Trails

Favorite activity in the Upper Valley: Hiking and Biking

Book/poem Recommendation: Too many! The Great Influenza, The Elegance of the Hedgehog and any of Mary Oliver’s poems

Favorite quote: “Ars longa, vitae brevis..”

Favorite piece of music/song: Ode to Joy

Most treasured travel: any trip with my whole family

Guilty pleasure: Chips! Kettle cooked. Saltier the better.

Unknown fact about you: I am an open book, can’t think of an unknown!

 

She is an internist and infectious disease specialist who practices primary care medicine and geriatrics. She and her family have been at Dartmouth since 1992. Her husband is a vascular surgeon, and together they have 3 grown sons who all enjoy the great outdoors that they are lucky to have in their backyard here in New Hampshire. As a medical educator over the past several decades, she has taught at the UME and GME levels and has led faculty development sessions locally and nationally. Teaching is something she loves – the opportunity to help curious, bright, and engaged learners find joy in the science and the art of medicine, is a gift she is lucky to have. She had the privilege of being the Associate Dean of Student Affairs for six years before transitioning to the role of Associate Dean of Admissions at the Geisel School of Medicine five years ago. In addition to her educational and administrative roles, her other greatest joy is patient care. She can honestly say that her patients have taught her more about medicine, life, and herself than she could have predicted.

 

Host: Tamar Mosulishvili

Editor: Willa Merrill