For The Betterment of Public Health Since 1791
For The Betterment of Public Health Since 1791
The Dudley J. Weider, MD/New Hampshire Medical Society Scholarship Fund at Dartmouth Medical School is an endowment designed to provide financial aid support for Dartmouth Medical School students. Income from the Fund supports general Dartmouth Medical School financial aid until up to $50,000. Once the general aid goal of $50,000 has been met, individual scholars are selected by Dartmouth Medical School’s financial aid office to receive any additional monies raised. Priority for additional funds will be given to students who exhibit an interest in organized medicine or medical politics or have a special interest in outdoor recreation. Those applying for consideration must be a resident of New Hampshire.
Dudley Weider, MD (1938-2005)
Dr. Weider received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 1960 where he was a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He went on to Tufts University Medical School and subsequently to an internship at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cleveland, and Otolaryngology residency at the Cleveland Clinic. Between medical school and residency, Dudley served as staff physician and service unit director at the US Public Health Service Hospital in Kotzebue, Alaska where he returned after residency to become Chief of Otolaryngology. In 1974 Dudley and family returned to New Hampshire and resided in the upper valley, where he joined the Hitchcock Clinic and was a professor of surgery at the Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Weider was a member of numerous local and national specialty societies over the years, where he held various positions. He was also a member of the New England, New Hampshire and Grafton county Medical Societies and was Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President and President of the Grafton county Society and Secretary, Vice President, President and Trustee of the New Hampshire Medical Society. Dr. Weider is remembered as deeply spiritual and active. Dudley’s love of life and outdoor activities took him to Mount McKinley, Denali and Rainier. He also had too many adventures in cross country skiing, biking and fishing to mention, though some highlights were a 200 mile skiing race in Anchorage, skiing the Greenland ice cap and biking several times from Hanover to Cleveland. Dr. Weider passed away while doing what he loved – cross country skiing.
For more information or to make a donation please contact Renata Dutton at Renata.Dutton@nhms.org
