Barbara Jobst, MD, PhD. Photo by Mark Washburn
Barbara C. Jobst, MD, Dr. med, has been named the new chair of the Department of Neurology for Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Previously, Jobst served as vice chair of Neurology and section chief of Adult Neurology. She has directed the Epilepsy Center at D-H and is the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor of Neuroscience at Geisel. She succeeds Jeffrey A. Cohen, MD, who retired as department chair in January 2021. Jobst is the first woman to serve as chair of Neurology at D-H and Geisel.
“I am thrilled to be chosen as the next Neurology chair as I see it as an opportunity shape and educate the next generation of neurological researchers and physicians,” Jobst said. “It will be my job to make the department even more successful than it already is, and I am excited to work with my colleagues at D-H and Geisel to achieve that goal.”