Susanne Tanski, MD, MPH, FAAP
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth; Section Chief and Vice Chair of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Associate Director of the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth; Primary Care Pediatrician, Children’s Hospital, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Susanne Tanski is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (formerly Dartmouth Medical school), a practicing primary care pediatrician, Section Chief and Vice Chair of General Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Associate Director of the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth. The C. Everett Koop Institute seeks to advance health and well-being through education and policy efforts to protect public health and prevent disease by specifically exploring health threats posed by consumer products such as tobacco, alcohol, and highly processed foods, and by the inappropriate promotion and overuse of prescription drugs. Dr. Tanski is also a project director in the American Academy of Pediatrics Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence, a national center of excellence funded by the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute dedicated to protecting children from all forms of tobacco: free from the use of all tobacco products and free from exposure to secondhand smoke and vapor. She is also the immediate past chair of the AAP’s Tobacco Consortium, a multidisciplinary research group.
Dr .Tanski’s current research endeavors focus on tobacco use in adolescents and young adults, media influences on adolescent smoking and drinking, communication between pediatric clinicians and parents regarding eliminating secondhand smoke exposure of children and helping parents promote healthy lifestyles for their children. She has specific research interest in how young people make choices regarding risk behaviors, such as alcohol and tobacco. She has expertise and interest in a broad range of topics including healthy use of media, smoking cessation for parents and adolescents, and parent/patient education.
Dr. Tanski received her MD from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She completed her residency in pediatrics at Strong Memorial Hospital/University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, followed by a fellowship in General Pediatrics and Masters of Public Health degree at the University of Rochester. She worked for the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Center for Child Health Research prior to joining the Dartmouth faculty in 2005.