Director, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD)
John F. Modlin, MD
John F. Modlin, MD is the interim director of the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD). He is also chair of pediatrics at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC),
An internationally-recognized expert on vaccines and viral disease, Dr. Modlin assumed the chairmanship of pediatrics in 1999. He had previously served as interim director in the 1990s, and again as co-director.
Dr. Modlin earned his MD from Duke University School of Medicine in 1971, and served an internship at Children's Hospital Boston.
He completed his training in pediatrics and infectious disease in Boston, after serving at St. Mary's Hospital in London from 1972 to 1973 and working with the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control from 1973 to 1975.
He taught at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School from 1978 to 1983, then conducted viral disease and vaccine research for eight years at Johns Hopkins, where he founded and led the pediatric AIDS program.
Dr. Modlin joined the Dartmouth medical community in 1991.
