Geisel School of Medicine

What's gonna keep your body from breaking down your muscles so that it can get amino acids? The fact that you feed your body protein, right? Because your body doesn't store amino acids except, like, as muscles and things that you're actually needing and using, and then it excretes the rest of them.

I did protein metabolism research at Dartmouth Medical School when I was an undergrad.

So we were measuring this in mice, and it goes out the other end, right? Those amino acids that aren't used.

So you need to be feeding your body every day with protein, okay? And I really do think this is the one thing that women do too little of.

Mark Krieger as our expert faculty for this episode.

Dr. Krieger is the Director Emeritus of the Heart and Vascular Center at Dartmouth Health and a Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

A titan in the field of vascular medicine, he's a past president of both the American Heart Association and the Society for Vascular Medicine.

Most notably for today's discussion, Dr. Krieger served as the chair of the writing committee for the 2026 AHA ACCPE guidelines.

Um, Dr. Katie Spirko is a forensic neuropsychologist based in Nashville, and she's the host of the Trial and Error podcast.

Dr. Spirko earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Florida School of Professional Psychology and completed clinical internship and post-doctoral fellowship training in neuropsychology at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

In private practice, she conducts forensic psychological evaluations and court-appointed parenting fitness assessments in criminal and family court cases throughout Tennessee.

Welcome again, Katie.

Lilly became a doctor.

Caltech first, physics and biology, graduating in 1938, Dartmouth Medical School after that, then the University of Pennsylvania where he took his MD in 1942.

The war put him into high-altitude physiology, working on what happens to a pilot's body at the edge of survivable pressure.

Nitrogen coming out of solution in the blood, oxygen starvation, the engineering of pressure suits.

UFO and alien abduction theorists often reference his case as a prime example of someone being taken and returning without recollection of their whereabouts or experimentation.

Stephen received his degree from Hope College in 1979 and completed a two-year internship at Dartmouth Medical School in 1992 before becoming a professor at the University of Wyoming.

While there, he was honored with a fellowship from the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Is it possible that Stephen Kabaki fell victim to the mysterious Lake Michigan Triangle, known for the numerous disappearances of planes, boats, and people over the years? This

Dr. Dennard, as many of you know, is recognized as one of the top shoulder surgeons in North America and has performed over 9,000 shoulder surgeries, published articles and two textbooks, including The Cowboy's Companion, A Trail Guide for Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery, and The Cowboy's Conundrum, Complex and Advanced Cases in Shoulder Arthroscopy.

He was educated at Dartmouth Medical School and did his residency at OHSU, followed by fellowships in both the U.S. and France.

Good morning, Dr. Denard.

It's a pleasure to have you today.

Dr. Lipschultz's academic background combined basic science and clinical medicine.

He earned a B.A. and M.A. in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.D. degree from Dartmouth Medical School, and he completed pediatric training at Case Western Reserve University, then pursued pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular research training at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.

His unusually broad foundation helped shape a career that bridged molecular biology, epidemiology, clinical investigation, and the care of children who had congenital or cardiovascular disease.

Perhaps Dr. Lipschultz's most important scientific contribution was his work in pediatric cardiomyopathy.

Here's his resume.

He's a graduate from Dartmouth Medical School.

He has a degree in music from the University of New Mexico.

He's got a bachelor of science in biochemistry and a master's in biomedical sciences and an MBA.