Finding a home at Taylor means more than access to a stunning new apartment – it means receiving the keys to present and future peace of mind.
Taylor Community is located in the beautiful Lakes Region of New Hampshire with campus locations in both Laconia and Wolfeboro. Whether you prefer an active lifestyle
Taylor is the place for you!
Finding a home at Taylor means more than access to a stunning new apartment – it means receiving the keys to present and future peace of mind.
Located in picturesque Wolfeboro, NH, The Residence at Back Bay features beautifully appointed private apartments, assisted living with a purposefully designed memory care neighborhood, and private nursing care. Here is a sampling of what living at The Residence at Back Ba y offers...
• spacious common areas
• libraries and a salon
• wellness suite
• expansive outdoor seating areas
• private balconies
• resident gardens
• beautifully landscaped grounds
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with walking paths
• chef-prepared, anytime dining from our talented culinary team
• indoor lap pool with a full schedule of tness classes
• walking distance to the waterfront, and only a short drive or stroll to downtown Wolfeboro
• personalized wellness plan
• full calendar of social, educational, recreational and cultural activities and wellness activities
complimentary transportation
• 24/7 sta and security
One of the biggest bene ts to becoming a resident of Taylor is our continuum of care, as it ensures that you never need to worry about nding another place to call home down the road – come join us!
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Port City Air, a locally owned business at Portsmouth’s Pease Tradeport with more than 150 employees, has been pivotal to the New Hampshire Seacoast Region’s growth for over 25 years. As the Fixed Base Operator at Pease, we specialize in aviation logistics, including fueling, maintenance, and repair while handling more than ten thousand flights annually. Our work, in addition to that of the New Hampshire National Guard, is helping maintain Pease’s place as an international hub for military aircraft.
In collaboration with the United States Air Force and NATO, we service a mix of military and civilian flights, significantly impacting the local economy and contributing to over 7,000 annual hotel bookings in the area. We do this while managing ground operations for 150,000 square feet of hangar space housing over a $100 million fleet of aircraft.
Our commitment goes beyond operations to sustainable practices, employee development, and continuous service enhancement. This dedication ensures top-notch service for our customers today and in the future.
At Port City Air, we’re not a national chain… we’re not a franchise. We are unique in our singular focus on boosting the Seacoast and Pease Tradeport. We take pride in being a crucial part of Pease Tradeport’s success and are committed to continuing our contributions to the Seacoast Region for years to come.
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14 Solitary Sentinel Rollinsford delights during every season
Photo by Greg Kretschmar
16 Life in the Slow Lane Keene has cultivated and maintained its small-town vibe since its very beginning
By Kara McGrath
22 Par for the Course Hit the links for fabulous food
By Crystal Ward Kent
28 Endless Winter Snowmaking and grooming extend ski season
By Brion O’Connor
32 Blips
The Ice Cream Secret’s Out
By Casey McDermott
34 What Do You Know?
Town Keeps Time After Hundred-Dollar Bet
By Marshall Hudson
36 In Their Own Words
Jimmy Dunn is big and loud, just like Boston
By Elisa Gonzales Verdi
82 Room to Grow Brighten your home with these easy decorating tips
By Emily Reily
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Winter Events
By Elisa Gonzales Verdi
94 Health Time to Eat
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96 Live Free Look to the Skies
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May Happenings at Seacoast Artist Association gallery in downtown Exeter:
Primavera: The Art of Spring Members Show
The Exeter Town Hall
Upstairs Gallery, 10 Front Street
May 4-5, 11-12 & 18-19, Noon-4pm
"Second Friday" reception* May 10, 4-6pm
In Full Bloom theme show and much more at the SAA gallery, 130 Water Street
Open Wed.-Sat. 10am-5pm, Sundays 1-4pm
“Second Friday” reception* May 10, 5-7pm
*Both receptions with refreshments and music!
EVERY MORNING when I arrive at the Waumbec Commercial Center, I gaze at the Millyard building next door to Yankee Publishing’s New Hampshire office.
“100 Commercial Street. Parking Reserved for United Therapeutics. No Waumbec Mill Parking.”
If not for the sign, I’d probably park there since our lot is always full by the time I get here.
But the short walk from a lot down the street is good for me. So are the 64 steps to the fourth floor that always leave me a bit out of breath, but much less so than when I first began climbing them several months ago.
At my age, I appreciate the durability of my knees and the capacity of my lungs. I’m fortunate to still be operating entirely with original equipment manufacturer parts.
Should any of them falter, I couldn’t be in a better place.
For several weeks last fall, I monitored the progress of construction workers atop 100 Commercial Street as they made upgrades to the mechanical systems in preparation for United Therapeutics to expand its small foothold and take over the entire 80,000square-foot building. One morning, a scientific supply delivery truck was parked outside.
CEO Martine Rothblatt chose the building to house the company’s Organ Manufacturing Group, where it will produce 3D-printed organ scaffolds that will be used to make organs for transplant.
Rothblatt’s pioneering work began in 1996 with her quest to save her 10-year-old daughter, Jenesis, from a deadly lung disease. Twenty years later, Rothblatt’s success inspired inventor Dean Kamen to launch the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute, the nonprofit consortium working to mass-produce human tissue and organs in the Millyard — the subject of this month’s cover story.
United Therapeutics was one of the first companies to join ARMI. In 2018, when Kamen introduced Rothblatt to me at a conference in the Millyard, her company already had set up $1 million worth of lab equipment at 100 Commercial Street and installed six researchers here.
Rothblatt has a personal incentive to continue her work. An experimental drug United Therapeutics licensed from Glaxo Wellcome led to a successful treatment for her daughter.
“She’s not a person who will be able to run or anything like that or do stairs, but she works at United Therapeutics,” Rothblatt said at the time. “She has lots of friends. I think she has a good life.”
But her life remains in jeopardy. She may need a lung transplant someday.
Rothblatt aims to solve that problem “using technology to create what she calls an ‘unlimited supply of transplantable organs,’ ” Antonio Regalado wrote in MIT Technology Review last year.
In 2022, a 57-year-old man with heart failure in Maryland survived for two months with a pig heart supplied by United Therapeutics, according to the story. One doctor suspected the patient ultimately died because the heart was infected with a pig virus, underscoring how the path to success to create replacement parts for humans will be a long, hard road.
Using pig organs likely will be just a bridge to a more viable solution to manufacture human body parts: making them to order.
While not mentioning the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute by name, Regalado noted the work underway by United Therapeutics “in a former textile mill in New Hampshire” to make lungs from 3D printers — and how Rothblatt believes “there is no part of the body that cannot be 3D-printed.”
I’ll steer clear of the parking lot, but I will be keeping close watch on our next-door neighbor.
You will still find our hilltop hideaway at the end of the winding dirt road. Lighten your spirit as you step out of your world and into ours.
Welcome to Pickity Place.
Call us for dining reservations. Have a Pickity Day!
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and Seacoast food writer. She wrote this month’s Food & Drink story “Par for the Course.”
You know and love our monthly “Spot the Newt” contest, but did you know that the newt is actually the official mascot of New Hampshire Magazine? That’s right! “Spot” (the Newt) has been with us since the early 2000s. For years, he was an active member of the magazine and was spotted throughout the Granite State at events, parades, fairs and more. He even became involved in state politics, ran a gubernatorial campaign in 2000 and ran for president in 2004 as a member of the Amphibian Party. Even though he didn’t become New Hampshire’s first newt governor, or become the first newt president, he still worked full time at the magazine until his retirement about 10 years ago. This year, Spot has decided to take a page out of Tom Brady’s playbook, and is officially coming out of retirement.
After a decade of under-log, under-leaf living, Spot is in need of a serious spa day and makeover. What can he say? He wants to look good for his return to life in the spotlight. That’s where you come in. New Hampshire Magazine is officially launching the Newt Reboot Design Contest! Now through mid-March, send us your best newt mascot suit redesign. You, the readers, and our editors will vote on the best submissions, and the winning design will be used to create a brand-new look for Spot, which will be unveiled at our Best of New Hampshire party. Plus, we’ll sit down with the winning artist for a Q&A feature about their design.
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Editor’s Note: Our readers continue to impress us with their photos that are regularly submitted to our Instagram and Facebook pages. Here are three recent favorites we decided to share. Keep an eye out for information on our upcoming Reader Photo Contest, where our readers can submit and vote on images that best capture what it means to live in the beautiful state of New Hampshire.
Editor’s Note: Elisa Gonzales Verdi’s profile of Portsmouth native Sherm Pridham and the history of the Puddle Dock neighborhood inspired reader Dan Corcoran to send us a copy of a 1999 Portsmouth Herald story that credited Pridham — then serving as director of the Portsmouth Public Library — with helping police nab a man who robbed a Bank of New Hampshire customer trying to make a deposit.
To Elisa Gonzales Verdi,
Having grown up in Portsmouth and as a current resident of Puddle Dock, I thoroughly enjoyed your article featuring Sherm Pridham and his efforts to compile a living history of the neighborhood.
Your description of Puddle Dock being “economically challenged” was extremely generous. I believe that Sherm would agree that in his youth, disputes were settled not by negotiations but by a swift uppercut to the jaw.
As a noted Portsmouth politician later said of Sherm, “You can take the boy out of Puddle Dock, but you can’t take Puddle Dock out of the boy.”
I believe the accompanying article from the Portsmouth Herald (Nov. 5, 1999) adds another dimension to the Sherm Pridham featured in your story.
Pridham heard screams from witnesses to stop the purse-snatcher. He set his feet to make a football-style tackle of the alleged culprit. Pridham wrestled the suspect against a brick wall, slowing down his process so police who were fanning out in the vicinity could catch up.
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A swath of golden sky contrasts with a dormant tree at sunset on a snowy field in Rollinsford. “The muted sun just kind of played with the clouds and gave me something pretty dramatic,” says radio personality and photographer Greg Kretschmar. Part of the Piscataqua Region Watershed and bordering the Salmon Falls River, Rollinsford was once a vital mill town, but its landscape still amazes.
PHOTO BY GREG KRETSCHMAR
No matter from which direction you enter Main Street in Keene, the big, white church at the northern tip is unmistakable. The landmark has loomed over Central Square since the 1780s, acting as a nearly unchanged supervisor over multiple renovations of the large roundabout and shop-lined, four-lane street that makes up this city’s highly walkable downtown.
Soon, the church will be witness to another makeover: City councilors have approved a $14 million project to overhaul the sewer and water systems while adding bike lanes and expanding the central traffic circle, all slated to begin in 2025. The plan, which is not yet finalized, has created a rift between people who wish to keep the square as it is and those who see value in the proposed changes.
There has been a mission to preserve Keene’s history while moving forward as the times demand since at least 1736, when citizens at a town meeting voted to double the width of what Alan Rumrill, executive director of the Historical Society of Cheshire County, calls “our wonderful, wide Main Street.”
Back then, Keene wasn’t so unique. “In the late 1700s and early 1800s, it was simply one of several communities in this region of
southwest New Hampshire that had about the same population size, same sorts of activities going on,” Rumrill says. Then the trains came to town.
When the railroad opened to Keene in May 1848, Rumrill says 5,000 people showed up to celebrate the prosperity they knew the trains would bring. And prosperity came quickly. “As soon as the railroad opened, manufacturers began to build factories and warehouses right along the tracks to take advantage of this new, faster and inexpensive form of transportation for their products,” Rumrill says. The population ballooned from 2,600 people in 1840 to 13,000 in 1930.
“Keene hasn’t had long extended periods of downturn, partially because of the diversity of industry and manufacturing here,” Rumrill says. In 1900, the city called itself the porch chair capital of the United States due to the million porch rockers produced here every year, but a lengthy article on Keene’s official government website that seemingly documents every business in Keene since its inception through the 1960s also notes successful textile mills, clockmakers, pharmacists, shoemakers, wigmakers, bookbinders, photographers and more.
When Steve and Cindy McGrath, two
lifelong residents (who are also my parents), were growing up in Keene in the 1960s and 1970s, the four-lane Main Street was lined with movie theaters, big-box stores and a few restaurants. A strong sense of community had always flourished, though the gatherings, they both recall, happened primarily at home. “The house was always filled,” Steve says, noting that it wasn’t uncommon for 200 people to get together for no special occasion. “We weren’t ever given a chance to be isolated.”
Today, the town is home to just over 23,000 residents, and has continued to prosper despite no longer being a hub for rail traffic (the railroad shut down to passengers in 1958, then closed entirely in 1982). You won’t find a department store or chain hotel on Main Street; instead, those community gatherings happen at locally owned restaurants, coffee shops, breweries and specialty stores that also draw in tourists.
Eileen Sarson, a volunteer of Radically Rural and the recipient of a 2023 Extraordinary Women award from The Keene Sentinel, recalls a recent conversation with a woman whose boyfriend had to travel to northern Vermont;
the woman asked to be dropped off in Keene on his way so she could spend the day shopping.
Karen Lyle, who owned and operated art-supply store Creative Encounters from 1985 to 2021, was one of the first women-owned businesses in town. Lyle was welcomed by the old-schoolers into the Keene Downtown Group, where she saw how businesses worked together, rather than competing, even if they were in similar industries. “They worked together, they planned together,” Lyle says. “And that’s what Keene does as a whole.”
This collaboration has continued, according to Ashley Nesbitt, who opened boutique fitness studio Everglow Wellness in 2019. “The city of Keene is very welcoming for new business. We have good resources here,” she says, emphasizing that all the businesses on Main Street are eager to support new entrepreneurs who join their ranks.
One of those resources — which Nesbitt says she used often during Everglow’s early days — is Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship, which grew out of Hannah Grimes Marketplace. Mary Ann Kristiansen is the founder of both, and opened the Marketplace in 1997 after she realized she
was able to sell her homemade soaps just about everywhere — New York City, Denmark, Japan — except locally. “I saw this beautiful, wonderful, amazing stuff made locally that really defined our region, and I felt like it just needed a market,” she says.
After almost a decade of offering a place for local creators to sell, Kristiansen decided to formalize the business advice she was often providing as well. The Center for
Entrepreneurship started with what’s now called The Business Lab. “It’s currently a seven-week program with workshops and one-on-one meetings,” she says.
Now, the center has nine listings under the Programs header on its website, including Radically Rural, an annual conference that brings rural community leaders from around the country to Keene to share creative solutions to common problems.
The center also offers almost on-demand individual coaching to supplement the less frequently-hosted workshops. “If you needed financial help right now, or if you needed help with your social media right now, we might not have a workshop until who knows when,” Kristiansen says. “We just started getting people volunteering their time to do one-on-one coaching. That really met a need.”
It’s not uncommon to see that type of collaboration extend beyond the startup phase. When Brewbakers, a local coffee shop, moved into a bigger space, they named that space Nova Arts and opened it up to other small businesses — including a floral designer and record store — plus began hosting indie musicians for performances. Modestman, a brewery on Main Street, often hosts pop-ups by local food trucks. Everglow, Nesbitt says, was always intended to be a space that could host events beyond workout classes; for one recent example, the studio served as the “adult lounge” during this year’s Keene Pride Festival.
This collaboration between business owners creates positive experiences for consumers as well. “Keene has the infrastructure and services of a city, but the ability to
create relationships that you would have in a small town,” Sarson says.
Steve, who celebrated his 50th work anniversary at the Tire Warehouse location on lower Main Street in 2023, recalls that his first managers always encouraged them to give back to the community. For instance, he got his pilot’s license in order to fly the company’s branded hot air balloon around town and at festivals, but this quickly became more than just a marketing stunt.
“With the hot air balloon, we offered a lot of community support,” he says, referring to the times he’d donate hot air balloon rides for local fundraisers or as an activity at a community event. “(People) recognized there was a commitment to support the community.”
When Keene Pumpkin Festival started in 1991, the organizers called on every business in town to help – and they happily chipped in, Steve recalls. While Pumpkin Fest — which brought thousands of visitors to Keene every year and set the 2013 world record for most lit jack-o-lanterns in one place (30,581) — is currently in a state of transition, there are many other community-run events on Main Street each year, and the nearby businesses support them all.
“If you really want to make a community (for your business), you have to go out into the community,” Nesbitt says simply.
Among those events, one of the longest running is Keene ArtWalk, which Lyle has been involved in since its inception in 1991. Every year, businesses donate their window display space to Monadnock Region artists
for 10 days. “It was a way of connecting artists, community and business together,” Lyle says. It is, essentially, a free, 24-hour outdoor museum: You can peruse the art at any time of day simply by walking through downtown.
If shopping, dining out or large crowds aren’t exactly your scene, Keene also offers plenty of the great outdoors that New Hampshire is more typically associated with. “People now think of Keene as a place where there’s lots of green space and public space where people, visitors and residents, can escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and sort of recover in a natural landscape,” Rumrill says.
Again, this was all part of a long-term plan. “The Forestry Society wanted to keep (downtown) green and attractive beginning as early as the 1850s,” he says, noting also that many prominent community members, like George Wheelock, started donating land for parks around the same time. “Right downtown and in the outskirts of the city itself, but still within the city limits, there are thousands and thousands of acres of natural open space.”
Everyone I spoke to for this piece raved about the easily accessible lakes, mountains and hiking trails, including the old railroad routes, which have been converted into paved paths that run for miles through
Keene and other nearby towns. As Steve puts it: “Where else can you go from a wildlife preserve to a liquor store in two minutes?”
The city isn’t perfect, of course. “Keene is such a great place to raise a family, but there aren’t enough opportunities for employment,” Cindy says, so people often leave for college and beyond if they’re in search of a more traditional career path.
(This is something I can attest to: I was only able to move back to this little hub of entertainment, food and culture from New York City because the media company I work for full time allowed me to go remote. Many of the friends I have here now are in the same boat.)
Housing, as with everywhere in the nation, feels expensive. There are tensions surrounding the town’s management of its unhoused community members, but also support for them, including Keene Mutual Aid, which was started in 2020 by then20-year-old Anna McGuiness.
But overall, it’s a good place to be. “It’s homey, it’s welcoming,” says Nesbitt. “It feels comfortable when you’re here,” Lyle says. “There’s a slower pace up here, and yet Keene’s not asleep.” NH
Some of the best dining in New Hampshire isn’t at trendy downtown restaurants but out on the golf links, where views of rolling greens add to the ambiance. Here are three establishments worth experiencing even before the snow melts.
Aces at Beaver Meadow in Concord
People have been flocking to Beaver Meadow Golf Club since the 1890s, when the first nine holes of the historic course were constructed (an additional nine would be added in 1968). Today, the lovely 18-hole venue brings a touch of nature to the state’s Capital City. Guests enjoy the facilities year-round, coming in winter to cross-country ski, skate and experience the outdoors. Aces, their popular restaurant, is open all year, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. In summer, guests relax on the patio overlooking the lush course.
Chef/owner Kelly O’Connor takes pride in the fact that everything at Aces is prepared in-house. The fare, which is classic pub food with a twist, features visitor favorites such as steak-and-cheese sandwiches, pulled pork and Cubans. O’Connor buys top-grade steak that she shaves in-house; she also does hand-cut fries, her own pulled pork, and makes pestos and sauces on offer.
“When you start with the best quality and make things yourself, it transforms the dish,” she says. “Even simple dishes are elevated when extra care is given. Our steak and cheese is classic, because the steak melts in your mouth — it’s not from frozen; we serve it with cheese, peppers and onions on a bulkie roll, and it’s a bestseller.”
O’Connor also brings Asian and South American influences to her menu, such as her Brussels sprouts, an “earthy, spicy, sweet” dish prepared using her house spice mixture with notes of coffee, chili and brown sugar. The sprouts are further
enhanced with a garlic tahini aioli, then topped with bacon and parmesan cheese.
Also flying out the door is the Cuban, made with O’Connor’s pulled pork, sliced turkey, ham, Swiss cheese, house pickles and mustard on a bulkie roll, all flattened into a tasty combo on the hot press.
Among the breakfast faves are The Rooster, an O’Connor creation featuring fried chicken, eggs and bacon with a maple chipotle aioli on a brioche bun. O’Connor guarantees that this tasty
combo will start your day off right.
Aces partners with Flag Hill Winery in Lee for spirits such as whiskeys and bourbons, and also features some of their custom craft cocktails, including the Flag Hill Margarita with cranberry, blueberry or raspberry liqueur, and the NH maple old-fashioned with Flag Hill Maple Bourbon, brown sugar syrup, orange, cherry and bitters.
For more information, visit bmgc.golf or call (603) 715-2187.
Greenside at Lochmere Country Club in Tilton
One could say that Greenside’s future changed with a chance encounter. David Fraser, chef and now co-owner, happened to be driving in Tilton when he saw the facility’s “For Lease” sign. The Greenside had been closed for two years, and Fraser was intrigued by the property’s potential. After many meetings and much planning, he came on board as chef and part-owner. The Greenside reopened and is now one of the most popular venues in the Lakes Region, serving guests and the community year-round.
Fraser changes the menu seasonally, and while the offerings present a fine-dining experience, the ambiance is casual with a come-as-you-are vibe. The combination has proved highly successful, with people eager to dine out.
Guest favorites include the day-boat scallops which are pan-seared, served with smashed hush puppies, honey bourbon bacon jam, chipotle baby carrots and crispy shallots; and the 14-ounce ribeye, which is chargrilled, topped with a roasted garlic and thyme compound butter and served with a fingerling potato, caramelized onion and asparagus hash.
“People didn’t expect to find this kind of menu here,” says Fraser, who was chosen Best Chef in NH through the New Hampshire Union Leader’s People’s Choice vote. “They have been blown away by the food. They wanted fine dining, but didn’t want to dress up or be in a stuffy environment. At Greenside, you can bring the kids, relax and have a good time. It’s a friendly atmosphere.”
Another must-try is the butternut chicken, which Fraser says, “Can never come off the menu — there would be a revolt.” It features a grilled chicken breast served over butternut squash ravioli in a brown butter sage maple cream sauce with roasted butternut squash, baby spinach and prosciutto.
Fraser feels strongly that being partly chef-owned makes a difference. “We are very focused on quality in every aspect. Nothing leaves the kitchen that isn’t perfect.”
Greenside also works to keep things lively, so guests have multiple reasons for returning. “We offer specials such as 25 percent off the entire menu on Sundays, and Surf ’n Turf on Saturdays, plus Italian Night, and Fish Fry Fridays,” says Fraser. “We also make things fun by having theme nights, such as Eighties Night, where we went all
out with ’80s food, drinks, décor and music. People loved it.”
Greenside Restaurant will unveil a major expansion this year with a new lounge area, bar and outside pavilion, all of which will greatly expand seating options.
For more information, call (603) 528-7888 or visit greensideatlochmere.com
Prime at Sky Meadow in Nashua While famous for its splendid cuts of beef, the team at Prime is quick to emphasize that this is not your average steakhouse. “Our steak menu is outstanding, but we are also known for our seafood, sushi and other offerings,” says owner Rob Parsons. “Everything we serve is top-notch.” Parsons also notes that Prime is a “fine-dining restaurant that happens to be a country club. We are a premier dining experience that guests seek out whether they golf or not.”
Prime is open year-round for brunch and dinner, and Felix Albano, general manager, feels they can “go head-to-head” with any steakhouse in Boston. They start with the highest grades of beef with everything hand-cut in-house. Among the most popular offerings are the 8-ounce filet and the 16-ounce rib-eye. The menu is à la carte, and the abundant side offerings include mashed potatoes (add bleu cheese or fresh horseradish if you like), hand-cut fries, mac ’n cheese, wild mushrooms, grilled artichokes and more. Sides are offered family style, so guests can select and share.
But steak is only part of the menu: crabcakes, clam chowder, sea bass, pan-seared scallops and favorites like lobster royale and lamb chops are also on tap. The decadent
lobster royale features lobster tail, a risotto cake, asparagus and lobster bisque. Few restaurants offer lamb chops these days, but at Prime they are a bestseller. Their chops are marinated in a curry blend, seasoned with salt and pepper, then served with a house-made balsamic reduction and a house-made chimichurri.
Prime serves a core menu year-round, but Chef Shawn Harris brings in fresh dishes seasonally. Complementing Harris’ efforts are those of their own pastry chef, who creates all desserts in-house, including tiramisu and a hot chocolate crème brûlée. The restaurant is known for its wine list, winning a Wine Spectator award, and also for its hand-crafted cocktails. (A winter favorite was the Smokey Maple Meadow, which featured maple syrup bourbon, maple bacon and maple wood chips with all products coming from New Hampshire providers.)
“We are also bringing back the classic cocktails, like whiskey sours and sloe gin fizz,” Parsons says. “When they are made right, with real ingredients — not mixes — they taste amazing, and are fantastic with our dishes.”
Sky Meadow has a patio restaurant for outdoor dining which is known for its excellent sushi menu, and the Oak Room, a cozy
place for enjoying classic pub fare.
The recently renovated club offers a wealth of services beyond golf including pickleball, swimming, billiards and a game room with bowling.
For more information, contact Sky Meadow at (603) 888-9000 or visit skymeadow.com. NH
With apologies to Charles Dickens, spring skiing can be “the best of times, and the worst of times” for New England outdoor enthusiasts.
Bluebird days with ample snowpack can offer a truly transcendent day. But patches of dirt and rock, and drenching rains, might dampen the spirits of the most diehard winter devotee.
More and more, an enjoyable spring skiing (and snowboarding) season depends upon a modern snow-making system and a top-flight fleet of grooming machines, plus dedicated crews to run both.
The good news for skiers and snowboarders who can’t stand the thought of putting their boots and boards away early is that New Hampshire ski areas have acknowledged the reality of climate change, understand the trend toward warmer winters and have invested accordingly.
“Anytime you operate a ski area 60 miles from the Atlantic Ocean in southern New Hampshire, the odds of a snowy winter — out of the gate — are elusive,” says Kris Blomback, general manager of Pats Peak in Henniker.
To succeed as a ski area in the Northeast, he says, “it’s imperative that you have snowmaking coverage that exceeds 75 percent of your terrain.”
“New England has always been difficult to operate a ski area as, usually, we’re on the Mason-Dixon line, weather-wise,” says Blomback, adding that Pats Peak has poured more than $4 million into its snow-making infrastructure over the past decade.
In reality, most skiers and snowboarders don’t think about, and don’t fully appreciate,
the effort required to produce a quality snow cover. But without investing in snow-making and grooming, ski areas — Alpine and Nordic — face daunting challenges, even with those advancements.
“(Snow-making) is not only important for early season operations, to get open in a timely manner to be prepared for the first bread-and-butter period of the season — the Christmas holiday week — but it is also critical to recovering from adverse weather events like we saw this December,” says Thomas Prindle, marketing manager for King Pine/Purity Springs Resort in Madison. “Not only does man-made snow generally hold up better to the typical New England rain-thaw-freeze events, but experienced groomers are able to ‘farm’ the product of snow to further aid the snowpack to survive those weather events and rejuvenate to a quality product more quickly.”
New Hampshire also benefits from hosting the United States headquarters of two Italian companies, DemacLenko snow-making equipment and Prinoth grooming machines. Situated on the outskirts of Concord, the sister companies share the commitment of Granite State ski areas to a superior snow surface.
“New Hampshire has some of the most diverse terrain in the country,” says Mark Palmateer, eastern regional manager for Prinoth. “We’re uniquely situated to have influence from both ocean and highalpine arctic environments.
“Ski areas such as McIntyre and Pats Peak are heavily influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, and then we have areas to the north such as Wildcat, Cannon and Bretton Woods that are higher in elevation and, although
no less challenging, see a different weather pattern completely,” says Palmateer. “Prinoth has always had a game plan for this and is ideally suited to tackle the challenges New Hampshire offers us.”
The idea, and goals, of ski areas and companies like DemacLenko and Prinoth are simple: Make the most of the snow you get, or make your own.
“Having the ability to capitalize on the good-weather windows for making snow is key for success,” Palmateer says. “You have to take advantage of what Mother Nature gives you for weather, no matter how little it may be in a given season, and get the snow piled up while you can.”
While Prinoth equipment is designed to groom, DemacLenko machines are responsible for supplementing any natural snowfall. Much of the snow at ski areas today is man-made, produced by a small army of snow guns spread across the trails.
“Not knowing what the weather will do in spring, ski areas bank on having machinemade snow to continue their season well into spring,” says Craig Raphaelson, a former snow-making manager who is Demac
Lenko’s Northeast sales manager. “We don’t get the amount of snow like the resorts out west, so being reliant on snow-making is paramount.
“Having snow-making allows the ski area to provide a skiing product that will withstand droughts, temperature fluctuations and rain events,” says Raphaelson. “The snow that’s being made is very durable, much more durable than natural snow.”
Even last March, when the weather gods treated New Hampshire to a bountiful snowfall, resorts continued to make and groom their snowpack. The result was more than 60,000 skier visits to the state for the season, says Tim Smith, president and general manager of Waterville Valley Resort.
“The really cool thing is our snow-making is getting so good, and our grooming is getting so good, that we don’t have the Backyard Effect,” says Smith, referring to the phenomenon where skiers won’t travel to ski areas because there’s no snow in their backyard. “Even when we have brown in Boston, they’re still coming north, because they know we have skiing. That’s because of that type of technology (at Prinoth and
DemacLenko). Those machines changed our industry.”
In the past two decades, DemacLenko and other companies have consistently generated improvements — including superior nozzles and barrels that yield better coverage — that make snow-making more efficient, and by extension, more affordable. For example, in the early days of snow-making, air/water snow guns used between 500 to 1500 cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air.
“Now the usage is averaging 60 CFM,” says Raphaelson. “This gives ski area operators the ability to run more equipment using the same number of air compressors. Or if operators want to run the same number of air/water snow guns, they can eliminate an air compressor, saving the ski area money.”
Producing snow, however, is only half the battle. “Farming” snow is, in all likelihood, a term that’s foreign to most skiers and snowboarders. But to snow operations crews, it’s essential. The term refers to the practice of grooming available snow — natural and man-made — so that it lasts longer.
“Prinoth’s modern grooming equipment can spread and process a much greater
quantity snow at a much lower cost and with far fewer emissions or environmental impact (compared to) previous generations of machines,” says Palmateer. “Although our new groomers are high-horsepower, high-production machines, exhaust emissions have been reduced by over 90 in relation to engines produced 10 years ago.
“Our machines and tillers — the implement on the back that leaves the beautiful corduroy — are produced based on North
American design and geared toward leaving the best possible finish,” he says. “Resorts have to be able to respond to ever-smaller weather windows and capitalize on efficiencies found in modern equipment to provide a consistent product for their customers.”
These grooming machines allow a snow operations crew to “farm” or “harvest” snow from areas with adequate or excess snow depth, and move it to places that are prone
to melting, creating bare spots, says Palmateer. The results are tangible.
“Probably the single biggest improvement in snow-grooming has been the advent of the power tiller, which can take a hard crusty surface after a flash freeze and grind it into a skiable, uniform surface,” says Blomback. “The machines are getting bigger, more fuel-efficient, and in general you can do more with less.”
With weather patterns becoming even more unpredictable, and winter temperatures generally getting warmer, ski area managers and owners need to be vigilant about investing in the new technologies, including above-freezing snowmaking systems.
“Winters that would have been an unmitigated disaster in the past are now mere nuisances, and ones that you can muscle through, provided you have a robust snow-making system,” Blomback says.
“If the owners of these properties adhere to some basic tenets, such as constant reinvestment in the physical plant, they’ll be in decent shape,” he says. “I’ve never seen a ski area with robust snow-making capability go out of business.” NH
Afew years ago, Kristina Zontini started making ice cream out of her home kitchen in Bethlehem. It started as a creative outlet, a way to share something sweet with family and friends.
“I thought ice cream was this really great canvas that tells the story of the ingredients that you put in it,” she says. “And I think that’s like a lost craft.”
As she dove in, it didn’t take long for her to find lots of inspiration in other smallbatch ice cream artists working around the country. It also didn’t take long for news of Zontini’s “Super Secret Ice Cream Club” to spread around town.
She started giving others the inside scoop: from an old freezer in the shed behind her house, from a stand at the local farmer’s market, and, eventually, from a take-out window and storefront on Bethlehem’s Main Street.
“I think every small town needs an ice cream shop,” Zontini says. “It kind of just presented itself.”
Then, barely a year after Super Secret Ice Cream formally opened its doors, Zontini got the kind of news most culinary professionals wait a lifetime for: She’s a semifinalist for a 2024 James Beard Award, aka The Oscars of the food industry.
“We were just in full shock, I think, the whole day,” she says.
Zontini’s a semifinalist for “Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker,” alongside heavyweights from New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and more. A few smaller communities are also represented, but Bethlehem is the tiniest town on the list — by a few thousand.
Nominees will learn whether they are finalists April 3, and winners will be announced June 10.
Even though the awards are still a few months away, Zontini says this already feels like a win for their community, the small farmers that keep them afloat and the staff that work hard to keep serving up delicious ice cream.
“We feel really lucky, and I hope it sheds light on ice cream as a craft,” she says. “Also, our area is really cool, and I don’t think New Hampshire is represented enough — and there’s some really cool female-owned businesses in our town, and surrounding towns.” NH
Congratulations are in order for two other Granite Staters who might be familiar to regular readers of this column. Chris Stinson and Amy Greene, of Portsmouth, are once again Oscar nominees. The pair worked together — Stinson as an executive producer, Greene as a stunt coordinator — on “The Holdovers,” which is up for five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Their independent production company, Live Free or Die Films, also worked on 2020 Academy Award nominee “Knives Out” and 2021 winner “Sound of Metal.”
It might not be quite as big a stage as the Oscars or the James Beard Awards, but a group of students from Groveton are also getting in on the spotlight. Groveton High School was chosen as one of 60 winners nationwide in NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge. Participants were invited to “design an experiment to test on a high-altitude balloon or rocket-powered lander.” Groveton and other winners are now working on building their experiments, with the goal of launching this summer.
After a fire in 1943, a new clock for Canterbury Church was built on a dare by a machinistBY MARSHALL HUDSON / PHOTOS FROM CANTERBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
There had been a hard driving rain, and now the roof was leaking inside the steeple on the Canterbury Church. The maintenance man invited me to go up inside the pointy spire with him to see how bad it really was.
This steeple wasn’t built for easy access.
You needed to be part monkey and part contortionist to crawl up the ladders and squeeze through the tiny passageways, while navigating obstacles and avoiding banging your head.
We reached a narrow claustrophobic platform at the level of the three-faced
clock, where I wrote my name on a whitewashed board mounted there for just that purpose. Reading the short list of people who had been there before me, I discovered the story of Ralph Keeler, the talented man who built this clock on a hundred-dollar, “bet you can’t” dare.
It was 1949, and the small town of Canterbury was still rebuilding after a fire in 1943 burned most of the buildings in the town center to the ground. The old church was completely lost, and the townspeople had been building a new one over the last few years.
Church members donated logs cut from their farms and then held work parties where they sawed the logs into useable boards and beams. When enough lumber was stockpiled, volunteers organized barn-raising-type gatherings and erected the new church building. All that was left now were a few finishing touches, one of them being a clock for the steeple.
The Building Committee had solicited bids for a new clock, and the low bid had come in at a staggering $3,600 — well beyond the reach of the community. Shocked and exasperated at the amount, Keeler, the church treasurer, blurted out, “Ridiculous! Why would we pay $3,600 when I could build one for 100 bucks?” Frank Plastridge, the road agent, suggested that if Ralph could in fact build one for $100, he’d give him the $100. “I’ll bet you can’t do it,” Plastridge said, and the dare was on.
Keeler knew nothing about clocks, but he had a degree in electrical engineering and was employed as a machinist at Rumford Press in Concord. In the basement of his house, he had a small workshop with some metal-working tools.
Without fully realizing what he was getting himself into, he accepted the bet. Keeler quickly discovered the clock he would be building was really three clocks, one for each face of the steeple, which would triple the expenses and add to the difficulty of the dare.
For the next three years he worked in his basement workshop building clock parts in his spare time. He machined almost every part of the clock himself and personally cut out the brass numerals for the three faces.
There were more than 500 individual clock parts to be created, and the slim budget left little room for trial and error. Keeler could not afford to waste any material, so each part had to be carefully thought out, designed and sketched before construction. Keeler scrounged materials here and there, buying
outright only the components he couldn’t manufacture himself. Three WWII surplus electrical motors, procured at no cost, would drive the hands on each face of the clock, and a fourth motor would provide the synchronization necessary to keep the time consistent on all three faces.
A saved clipping from the Globe Fiction Magazine dated June 7, 1953, indicates that the toughest problem for Keeler “was finding a way to lock the hands in position yet leave them free to move in a continuous flow to keep them from hurrying on the downhill side of the face and loafing on the uphill side. In desperation, Keeler turned to a 300-year-old device known as the ‘worm drive,’ never before used on the face of a clock. In the years since its comple-
tion the clock has never missed a minute even in the heaviest snow and sleet.”
The clocks have Roman numerals of weathered brass set directly on the building. Keeler’s original idea of having them made of ground glass with illumination behind the face proved to be too expensive. The hands were cast by Keeler and reflect his own design. To stay within his designated budget, no bell-striking element was included, but he left the option open, hoping this feature could be added later.
Keeler completed the clock and installed it just in time for the town’s 1951 Old Home Day celebration. The final cost: $147.
Despite his best efforts and three years of donated labor, Ralph Keeler lost the bet, but he didn’t really mind. Keeler said he did it
for the challenge, and the fun of the project was to carry it out as inexpensively as possible. Frank Plastridge declared it the best homemade tower clock in the country, and was so pleased with the result he happily forked over the entire $147, even though he had won the bet.
An oversight in Keeler’s well-thought-out design is that it took two people with walkie-talkies to adjust the hands for daylight saving time or correction after power outages. One person up in the steeple working blindly and the other on the ground outside communicating, “just a little bit more,” or “oops too much, go back a little” as the hands are adjusted.
Age and the elements have taken their toll on Ralph Keeler’s clock, and it no longer functions, even though portions of it have been replaced over the years to keep it running. The old WWII surplus motors no longer work. One has been removed and tucked away to preserve the historical tale.
A new committee has been looking into the options and expenses of repairing or replacing the old clock, but budgets are tight, and the committee hasn’t yet found someone willing to fix it on a $100 dare.
Fundraising for clock repair tends to always take a backseat to more urgent needs, and now we must contort our way back down the ladder and tell the pastor funds are needed for a leak in the steeple roof. NH
Comedian Jimmy Dunn has had New England in stitches since the early days of his career. From putting 70,000 miles on his car to make it to open mic nights and passing out flyers in a lobster costume to get a gig, to performing at the Kowloon on Route 1 and comedy clubs worldwide, to gigs on “Conan” and more, the Hampton resident has worked tirelessly to solidify himself as a Boston comedy legend.
Dunn’s booming voice and Boston accent have landed him two roles in Hollywood. The first was “The McCarthys,” a sitcom that debuted in 2014 and focused on a sports-loving Boston family. Dunn played the family’s loud, washed-up former athlete brother, which put his foot in the door for his current project, playing Moose, a Boston firefighter, on the recently rebooted “Frasier.” Dunn is having the time of his life on the set of the beloved sitcom, playing to live studio audiences and making the nation laugh.
New Hampshire Magazine: Both of your shows, “Frasier” and “The McCarthys,” take place in Boston. What is the difference between real Boston and Hollywood Boston? Jimmy Dunn: First of all, really bad accents. They don’t know how to do the accent. They think somebody from New Jersey is close enough sometimes. That’s how I got into this, is because in both cases, they were looking for somebody that has the authentic New England accent. And (someone that) understands that Boston brand of funny. That’s how I got my foot in the door on both of these. I kind of have a reputation on stage doing stand-up — I play this big, not so bright guy with a heavy Boston accent, which is not very far from me. It’s not a lot of acting. I play that character, and they don’t need that character in Hollywood a lot. But when they do, they know who to call. I’m in that conversation.
NHM: Would you say that you and your character, Moose, are similar?
JD: Very similar — it’s crazy. When I saw the audition, they were looking for a big firefighter. Not very bright or funny, and I checked all of those boxes. My uncle was a firefighter, and when I was a kid, I ate half of my meals in the firehouse — they would feed me all the time! There’s an episode where we’re cooking with Frasier, and that was just so cool. Like, I did this with my uncle, you know? So, I already have that authenticity.
NHM: You said in an interview with the Boston Globe in 2014 that, “playing dumb is paying off.” Would you say that still reflects who you are?
JD: 100%. It’s kind of my trademark. I’m the big, loud husband on stage when I’m doing stand-up. I’m on the radio every week, and I’m this big booming voice that comes through. People will hear me and go “Oh, hey Jimmy’s here!” I’ve always liked that, and that’s part of being a stand-up comic. I’m always playing — that’s how I develop material! When I started doing stand-up, I was more sort of the quiet wiseass. Then, I became a bit louder. When I started doing stand-up, if you weren’t loud and in charge and funny, really quick, you weren’t on stage very long. The Boston comedians were, and still are, some of the best in the world. But you had to really grab some attention. It’s the same with an audition: You gotta make an impression.
NHM: Has your stand-up changed since doing sitcoms? Sitcoms and stand-up are different kinds of comedy. Do they have an effect on each other?
JD: When you get an audition for a sitcom, even just when you’re on a sitcom, they give you a couple of lines. You know, it’s a joke. There’s a setup and a punchline, and maybe someone else is doing the setup, and then
you’re doing the punchline. But, it’s a joke. Stand-up is a great way to practice those little moments, to get better at that. When you learn to become a character on stage and act more, it makes for a better performance. I love when I have a bit that I can act out a little bit more on stage, instead of just standing there telling jokes. I’m on this sitcom with people that went to Juilliard and people that went to Harvard, and people that are trained actors. I learned how to act in the back of a Chinese restaurant on Route 1. I learned how to turn a joke to make it funnier, which I think that’s why stand-up comics are great comic actors.
NHM: Is that still intimidating?
JD: It still is, but it goes away. The first scene that I got to do in the new “Frasier” was a scene in a bar. I’m in a scene with Kelsey Grammer, and they’re walking me down to get set up for the scene and playing the warm-up music. They’re keeping the audience entertained — and oh, it’s live (that’s the best part, the coolest part). There are 250 people in the bleachers, and I was like, “Wow, I am in the deep end right here, man. This is pretty amazing.”
NMH: Do you and other New England and New Hampshire comedians ever hang out?
Do you have a club in LA?
JD: We used to go to Dane Cook’s house all the time, and it was a bunch of Boston guys watching ball. I have a lot of Boston friends out there, and when the Celtics play the Lakers, we’re all there. One night a few years ago on a Saint Patrick’s show at Hollywood Improv, it was Joe Rogan, Bill Burr, Greg Fitzsimmons, me and a couple of other guys from Boston, and those nights, forget it, just hanging with the boys and telling old stories. It’s a blast.
NHM: What are your upcoming goals,
aspirations, ambitions? What are you hoping is next?
JD: My biggest goal is hopefully getting to do a second season of “Frasier.” I grew up watching “Cheers.” I’m a monster “Cheers” fan, and I would have never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would be on a show with some of those folks. If this phone rings, and it’s Kelsey and he says, “Saddle up, Moose, we’re doing another one,” that’s the ultimate. This is, far and beyond, the coolest gig I’ve ever had. Just to be a small part of “Frasier,” and get a couple of laughs in an episode of that show? Coolest thing you could imagine. NH
Eli Slater uses his whole body to right his turning boat and avoid capsizing. In each boat is a cup of some form to scoop out (or bail) the water that inevitably finds its way in.
BY ELISA GONZALES VERDI
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small crowd forms outside Kittery Point Yacht Club in New Castle. Members getting ready for a luncheon watch from the warmth of the club as a small group of sailors pulls into the parking lot. This isn’t an unusual sight, as the club neighbors a popular launch point for people looking to sail or paddle around the tidal Little Harbor.
Except today it’s 32 degrees. And it’s January.
The sailors gear up outside, unloading sailboats small enough to fit into the trunks of their cars, putting on extra layers of warm clothing and zipping up their dry suits before putting on the finishing touches of hats and dish gloves.
“You guys are crazy,” one club member says, “certifiably insane!” There may be an inkling of truth in that statement, but the sailors, members of the Mostly Maine Frosty Fleet No. 9, laugh it off as they get ready for a day of racing.
In the sailing world, the Cape Cod Frosty
has become a cult classic since its creation in 1984 by former Harwich, Mass., harbormaster Tom Leach. Much like the late-night comedies of the late ’80s and ’90s, those who love the Frosty love it with a passion, and those who don’t “get it” probably won’t — until they’re hooked.
The sailboat (technically the sailing dinghy) is only about 6 feet long, and is the smallest racing dinghy in the world. The one-person vessel is fast, light and masterfully designed for winter racing.
New Castle is home to the most active
Frosty Fleet in the nation, Fleet No. 9. On Sunday mornings, from roughly late October through May, in rain, snow or shine, these dedicated Frosty devotees gather together to race.
Why spend your winter getting up at the crack of dawn to spend your day on the water? In a tiny boat, where capsizing is almost a guarantee, with the winter winds and water whipping you from all angles, ready to snap your mast? There must be something to it. Even though they’re usually blue-lipped and freezing, it’s rare to see a member of Fleet No.
9 frown when they’re coming off the water. Kali Sink has wanted to sail for as long as she can remember. She finally started around eight years ago, and had her first season racing Frostys last year. Now in her sophomore season, Sink has become the fleet’s commodore. At the end of each season, following the Intergalactic Championships, after announcing each sailor’s rank for the year and crowning the national champion, the fleet votes on who they believe should lead and organize the races for the next season. Once the majority chooses
a commodore, whether you want to or not, you’re in charge.
“Years ago, I had a roommate who was very involved in the sailing community and raced Frostys,” Sink says. “I always laughed at how ridiculously tiny her boat was and how blue with cold her lips were every time she came home. I thought she was crazy, but she was always so happy after those races! I get it now.”
Sink enjoys the feeling of thriving in adverse conditions and what those experiences can teach her.
❛❛I come back because I love sailing, and I love being with people who love sailing and usually appreciate the goofiness of fierce racing on such a tiny scale.❜❜
— Tony Lee
“There's nothing like being on the water when it’s snowing, and the spray is freezing on your boat,” she says. “Racing sailboats is also a really fun skill to work on. You learn something new every week you're out there and, if you’re lucky, sometimes you actually string those lessons together and have a really fast race!”
Between the size of the dinghy and the techniques needed to rip it on the water, Frosty sailing is an undeniably unique experience. And Frosty vessels aren’t easy to come by. Each one is built by hand and then passed down, sold (sometimes for a case of beer) and swapped between sailors.
Every Frosty comes with its own quirks, and each has its own rich, oral lineage and history that traces back to its original builder. Each owner tweaks their dinghy so it’s customized perfectly for them. If you didn’t build your own, you know who did and everyone who has sailed it before you.
Frostys that were built in the late ’80s by Fleet No. 9’s original sailors, like Paul
Bilodeau, are still on the water today. Bilodeau may have given his original Frosty to another sailor, but he fondly recalls the early days of the fleet’s formation.
“We are a sailing family. When my son was old enough, we joined the Agamenticus Yacht Club because it had a racing program. I was the race committee chairman, and we were mostly racing Lasers and International 210s out of York Harbor,” Bilodeau says. “That was how I met Peter Follensbee. We hosted the Senior and Junior New England Laser Championship, which Peter won. He went on to the North American Championship, and while competing, he met folks who were racing Cape Cod Frostys.”
Follensbee introduced the idea of Frosty racing to the area during Portsmouth Yacht Club meetings, Bilodeau recalls. The only catch was that every sailor would need to build their own Frosty because none were available.
“So, Peter got the plans and specs — he even had some full-scale layouts for the hull and deck,” Bilodeau says. “So, we each built the first set of Frostys ... to be honest, I had more fun building the Frosty than racing it!”
Like with any sport, each competitor uses their own equipment. In sailing, that means each race is B.Y.O.B. (bring your own boat), and you race the boat you bring. For Fleet No. 9, however, that’s not always the case.
“One thing that sets us apart from other fleets is that we record sailor names on the scoreboard, instead of sail numbers,” says Frosty sailor, Stewart Craig. “We can trade off boats without a scoring penalty ... it’s casual competitive racing — what more can you ask for on a frosty winter day?”
It’s not uncommon for sailors to swap Frostys between races, so they can see how someone else’s boat handles and how they might want to fix up their own. The ability to jump around also makes it so that newer or prospective members can race without having to build or track down the elusive “Frosty-for-sale” first.
Regardless of how much smack talk is yelled on Sundays, Fleet No. 9’s sailors are always giving each other tips and tricks on how to improve their technique, performance and their boats.
The fleet is made up of a mixed bag between nationally ranked racers, weekend warriors, adrenaline junkies and sailors
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just looking to try something new. No matter how long they’ve been racing, everyone is there for the same reason: their love of sailing.
“The culture of Fleet No. 9 is awesome,” says Frosty’s reigning national champion Eli Slater. “People are friendly, welcoming, helpful and everyone has a good sense of humor. It’s hard to find groups that are as great as Fleet 9.”
Part of the appeal of Frosty racing is learning how to master sail in such a tiny craft, Slater says.
“Frostys are a terrific little boat. They’re easy to dismiss and view as being a bit goofy, but while they certainly are funny, Frostys are great racing dinghies,” Slater says. “I’ve learned more about racing through sailing Frostys than any other boat that I’ve raced, and I’ve been racing seriously since the age of 9. Because the boat is so weight-sensitive and responsive, you can apply all the little things that make a Frosty go fast to bigger, heavier and more complicated boats.”
Longtime sailor Matt Glenn first heard
about Frosty racing in March 2014 and wanted to try it right away.
“I was loaned a boat and dry suit by Scott Cioe on a breezy early April Sunday. It was cold with around 15 knots of wind, but I managed to pull off third place in an exciting first race and was hooked,” Glenn says.
As the day progressed, the wind gusted up and he ended up capsizing three times, “to leeward, to windward and then on a downwind run by submarining the bow.”
“The dry suit held, but by the end of the day I was pretty banged up, nearly hypo-
thermic, and exhausted, but still hooked — I told Scott I’d buy it on the spot,” Glenn says. “I keep coming back because it’s a great group of people and it’s really good, friendly competition. Sailboat racing is physical, mental and tactical.”
Fifteen years ago, Tony Lee was recruited to the Frostys by friend and fellow sailor, Bruno Paciulli. As a math teacher, Lee saw an opportunity to engage students through sailing.
“He (Paciulli) told me I could build a boat, and I could share the math of the
Elisa has a great day sailing, while regretting her eBay dry suit.
I first learned about the Frostys when I was a kid. My dad and I would drive out to New Castle in the winter, see them race and think, “Who in their right mind would be sailing today?”
Last year, in an exercise to get out of my comfort zone, I decided that it would be the year of “what if/yes and.” If I asked myself “what if I did that” or was invited to do something spontaneous or outside of my comfort zone, I would give it a try. When I saw the Frostys race in early November, I was honor-bound to give it a go.
I’ve been sailing since I was about 9 or 10, but I’d never done it in the winter. I found a cheap dry suit on eBay (big mistake) and showed up to race one Sunday in early December. I think I spent more time swimming than sailing, but after my first day on the winter water, I was hooked and raced religiously until the end of the season.
The combination of the cold air and freezing wind and water is indescribable, but it all added up to create one of the best (and coldest) winters of my life. But there’s no place else I’d rather be. Once I’m done with my never-ending DIY Frosty project, I’ll be back on the water — with blue lips and a big smile on my face.
— Elisa Gonzales Verdifleet’s scoring with my elementary school students,” Lee says. “I think it made me better at connecting with them. I also found that the 3-minute start signals were a good way to give students enough time to transition to the next activity without a lot of reminding, but with the expectation we’d all be ready to start together.”
A passionate sailor, Lee sails every weekend in the Frosty he built, nicknamed “Moxie,” since the paint is the same bright orange as its namesake’s label. Lee braves the cold and the wind because he loves
the camaraderie and the competition.
“I come back because I love sailing, and I love being with people who love sailing and usually appreciate the goofiness of fierce racing on such a tiny scale,” Lee says. “I also respect these fine sailors. I learn from them, and I trust them with my life when I need to be rescued from the icy water.”
It’s where he wants to spend his time on a cold winter day.
“I might add that Bruno always asked a great question,” Lee says with a laugh: “‘Where would you rather be?’” NH
Bioprocess Technician Shannon Walen, Principal Scientist and Group Leader
Shobhit Saxena and Bioprocess Technician Owen Schneider analyze samples of cells that are being grown.
AS A CENTER OF INDUSTRY, Manchester, New Hampshire, was spun into existence from cotton in the 1800s. Its future may be woven by the strands of human life.
Textiles elevated the Queen City into a global powerhouse for nearly a century. By the early 1900s, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company operated a textile mill complex along the Merrimack River that employed 17,000 people, encompassed 30 buildings and was the biggest in the world.
After Amoskeag shut down in 1936 — bankrupted by the Great Depression, labor strikes and competition — manufacturing continued in the Millyard, but the city never reclaimed its glory. Giant buildings sat vacant until they began filling up again in the 1980s with a new wave of high-tech, business services and education tenants.
Is Manchester ready to rise again? We’re not talking about bettering Boston. We’re talking about conquering the world.
Last fall, the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) became a federal Tech Hub, one of 31 chosen by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The effort, launched by inventor Dean Kamen in 2017 with $80 million from the Department of Defense, could secure millions more in federal funds toward the mass production of human tissue and organs.
Kamen, whose inventions include a portable insulin pump, a wheelchair that climbs stairs, a bionic prosthetic arm and the Segway scooter, recognized Manchester’s potential in the early 1980s and began buying up buildings in the Millyard to establish a research and development company.
ARMI could lead to the creation of 9,000 jobs and make the city an epicenter for biotech research and fabrication, proponents say. Partners include the cities of Manchester and Nashua, the University of New Hampshire Manchester, Manchester Community College and more than 200 ARMI member companies in the biotech industry across the country.
Second- and third-generation Manchester residents — the descendants of immigrants from Canada, Ireland, Poland and other nations — remember the mills as the place where their mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, uncles and aunts, clocked in for long days making fabric, shoes and other products.
Now ARMI needs to groom a new gen-
eration of workers to ramp up the production of human organs. If it takes hold, the biotech revolution could upend the health care industry and lead to cures built with blueprints created from a patient’s own cells.
On the morning of a photo shoot of Dean Kamen and his biotech team at the ARMI Tissue Foundry in November, Kamen is the last to arrive and doesn’t have much to say. Maybe it’s because he’s about to hop on a plane to Washington, D.C., to talk with federal officials about another project and is pressed for time.
While his colleagues exchange early morning banter and feign poses, Kamen sits still. Gathered around him are the team heading up ARMI: Tom Bollenbach, chief technology officer; Maureen Toohey, deputy executive director; Jennifer MacDonald, chief operating officer; and Julie Lenzer, chief innovation officer.
In October, Kamen and the team gathered with community partners and political leaders to celebrate the designation of ARMI/BioFabUSA as a federal Tech Hub. The U.S. Department of Commerce expects to invest $50 million to $75 million in five to 10 hubs chosen from among the 31 named to the program.
Momentum has been building. In 2020, the ARMI project secured $44 million from the Economic Development Administration as part of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge. But in an industry where blockbuster drugs can top $1 billion to develop, all those millions are just seed money to jump-start the creation of an entirely new industry.
Ask Kamen to talk about ARMI before he catches his plane to Washington, and the few minutes he consents to stretches to nearly half an hour. Now he’s all smiles, as if he’s stepped onto a stage to present a speech he’s made many times before.
Kamen compares the evolution of ARMI to the development of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), the nonprofit he founded in 1989 that builds student interest in science through robotics competitions. FIRST,
also headquartered in the Millyard, now attracts teams from all over the world.
“It’s got hundreds of people at headquarters and thousands of people around the country, and hundreds of thousands of volunteers and millions of kids. But for the first five or six years, just like (ARMI), FIRST was pretty much nurtured without any of its own staff,” says Kamen, who also operates DEKA, his research and development company, in the Millyard.
“It was all done by volunteers and my support team inside DEKA,” he says. “But now it's up and running, and it's on its own, and I'm hoping ARMI will do the same thing.”
ARMI in the spotlight
Kamen says members of his DEKA team have been “on loan” to the ARMI project, a practice that may have blurred the lines between his private and nonprofit ventures. An investigation last fall by New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) and APM Reports examined the ARMI project’s use of federal funds and Kamen’s business relationships. The article by Todd Bookman uncovered no legal wrongdoing on Kamen’s part but included calls for greater transparency on how the public tax money is being used.
During an interview before the NHPR report was published, Kamen, 72, acknowledged how much ARMI’s momentum has depended upon him and the connections he’s made over the years in business and government.
It also has depended on the real estate Kamen has amassed in the Millyard, including the 150 Dow St. building he bought last year for $23 million with a business partner. ARMI plans to dedicate about 25 percent of the five-story, 400,000-square-foot building space to biofabrication manufacturing — an important step toward promoting the regional brand of “ReGen Valley.”
“As the White House said, ReGen Valley will be the epicenter of a whole new industry, but only if the local community embraces it,” Kamen says. “Individual citizens, the education community, the government community, the business community, have to realize that we have to hang together and build this thing as quickly as we can. My personal efforts are not going to be enough to continue to do this.”
The $80 million from the Department of Defense required matching contributions
in funding and in-kind services. Kamen was able to secure $214 million worth of additional support, primarily from corporations that were early supporters of FIRST, including Rockwell Automation and Boston Scientific. Their executives serve on the ARMI board of directors.
“What you need is a network of people that are trying to do the right thing for the right reason, and I think ARMI is proof of that,” Kamen says. “But it's got to grow up, and it's got to be out on its own. It's got to stop depending on me.”
Kamen fears bigger states with more resources will see the path ARMI is taking and run with it.
“We've proven that you can start making at-scale cells, tissues and organs. What I'm afraid of is now that we’ve essentially de-risked it, essentially laid out a detailed road map to create an industry where still we're growing fast, but we’re still so tiny compared to the resources at some major medical complexes in New York, in Texas, in California, that they're going to look at our road map, and they're going to say, ‘Hey, we can do that.’ ”
Lifesaving technologies converge
An 80,000-square-foot mill building at 100 Commercial St. recently occupied by Texas Instruments is now home to a single tenant that needed to expand. United Therapeutics, led by CEO and ARMI board member Martine Rothblatt, makes 3D-printed organ scaffolds for manufactured organs that are being developed for transplant.
Rothblatt, whose resume includes co-founding Sirius Satellite Radio, established United Therapeutics in 1996 to save her 10-year-old daughter from a deadly lung disease. The company developed an experimental medicine licensed from Glaxo Wellcome.
"If I didn’t figure out a solution, she was going to die,” Rothblatt said during a 2018 interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader. “The odds were, even with my effort, she was going to (die) because I probably wouldn't have succeeded. But I got lucky, I did succeed."
United Therapeutics, based in Silver Spring, Maryland, employs about 1,000 people at seven locations in the U.S. and Canada. The publicly traded company generated revenues of $1.9 billion in 2022.
With ARMI’s designation as a federal Tech Hub, “we envision that we can start looking at affordable housing, child care — what are the other barriers that are keeping our workers from being able to access these jobs and the education?”
JULIE LENZER CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER
“There are other nations pouring investment into manufacturing, into regenerative medicine. And the U.S. needs the opportunity to lead such that we can set policy, we can set how these technologies are used. We can set the standard.”
JENNIFER MACDONALD CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER“Manufacturing starts with the patient. It's either a biopsy or a blood sample. And then that's the source of our cells for everything, whether or not that patient is a donor, to make a cell-based therapy, a living therapy for thousands of other people, or if it's for themselves.”
TOM BOLLENBACH CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER“We are on the brink of turning ARMI into the hub of a whole new industry. But the advantage we had in getting going was, New Hampshire is a small, focused place. We can't compete going toe-to-toe for dollars or resources with New York or Texas or California. But what we can do is energize people quickly, people that we know and people that we trust.”
DEAN KAMEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTORA designation as a Tech Hub really is recognition of what we’ve been working on for the past six years, and it will bring with it the possibility of additional funding to promote those initiatives. We’re one of the 31 areas around the country that has the chance of becoming the hub of a global industry within the next 10 years.”
MAUREEN TOOHEY DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
“If we didn’t have her, I don't think ARMI would be here at all,” Kamen says. “It certainly wouldn't be moving as fast as it is. And she has decided to make that building in this Millyard the first place on this planet in which you have an entire building dedicated to one and only one thing: manufacturing replacement human organs.”
Rothblatt is working with Kamen to bring vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft to Manchester, which Kamen hopes will originate from space in the Millyard. It would deliver freshly made human organs to hospitals around the region and eventually around the country.
Those organs would be custom-made for the patients who would receive them. People who receive human organ transplants now must take powerful immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their lives so that their bodies do not reject the organs. Researchers working with ARMI aim to manufacture organs that are populated by the cells of the intended recipient, ending the dependency on such drugs.
“This is a replacement organ, but it’s sort of like getting a replacement part for your car from the original equipment manufacturer. You don’t need an adapter plate,” Kamen says. “It's going to have your DNA in it. Your body won't reject it.”
The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute is part of a growing life sciences
industry in the Granite State that generated $4.3 billion in sales in 2021 and represents 11,290 jobs, with average salaries of $130,848 per year, according to a report last June by the New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs.
The newly formed New Hampshire Life Sciences cited that data in January, when the trade association announced its inaugural founding members: Novocure, a global oncology company that has its North American flagship in Portsmouth; and Novo Nordisk, a global health care company with operations in West Lebanon.
“New Hampshire Life Sciences has been kind of operating in the underground for several years,” says Andrea Hechavarria, its president and CEO. “There's been a group of business leaders in the state that have been really trying to get this off the ground just because of the growth of the industry and the promise of the industry and its economic opportunity to the state of New Hampshire.”
Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs, says the new trade group could help New Hampshire best take advantage of a fast-growing business segment that includes ARMI.
“Just government telling everybody that this is a nice place for life science only gets you so far,” Caswell says. “You’ve got to have
a consolidated and collaborative private sector to also help tell that story.”
New Hampshire has been attracting life sciences companies in recent years that need to find space for biomanufacturing. Those companies see the state as a place where they can attract workers from neighboring New England states, Caswell says.
“A lot of the life science industry in the eastern U.S. is locked up in urban areas, and they're at points where at some point they need to build things,” he says. “We’re seeing that kind of activity, where the company might not be physically moving here, but they might be opening some biomanufacturing-type operations.”
The ARMI project and its workforce needs was the subject of a panel talk during a twoday economic summit in November hosted by the Greater Manchester Chamber.
You could blame the light attendance in the meeting room at the DoubleTree Hotel on the Friday afternoon timing, but it underscores how Manchester’s biggest story has yet to break through to the mainstream.
Among the 30 or so people gathering to listen to a four-member panel moderated by Chamber Chair Matt Cookson were several people connected to the project, including Jodie Nazaka, the city’s economic development director, and Brian Bricknell,
To revolutionize the future of regenerative medicine, the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) needs to create a diverse workforce to power it.
Under the leadership of Chief Operating Officer Jennifer MacDonald, ARMI has launched programs such as BioTrek and the Biofabrication Technician Registered Apprenticeship Program to recruit and train a new generation of professionals.
“We are aiming to create interest right at the time that young people are starting to think about what they want for their futures, and then build on that,” said MacDonald, a physician and Army veteran who joined the institute last year after a six-year tenure with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Imagine having a GPS for your career in a fledgling field that lies at the intersection of life sciences, entrepreneurship, engineering and manufacturing. Engaging students at the middle school and high school levels, the BioTrek program provides an early glimpse into what skills and education are necessary for a career in this transformative industry.
"We're trying to make sure that everyone who wants to be a part of this industry has the opportunity," MacDonald said. The outreach includes creating partnerships with public schools, hosting camps and organizing after-school programs.
In collaboration with 20 schools across New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the flagship BioTrek program provides an experiential learning environment. Students assume roles as CEOs of their fictional companies, managing branding, budgets and product development.
“The well-rounded approach of the program not only facilitates the development of meaningful project presentations but also cultivates essential transferable skills such as collaboration, time management, leadership and public speaking," said Gabby Mourousas, lead educator for BioTrek.
Last June, student groups from Nashua Tech Center, New England Innovation Academy, and Central High School in Manchester reached the BioTrek finals. The program, led by Mourousas and Christy Johnson, academic manager of Biotrek, was part of the “Extended Learning Opportunity” after-school pilot program.
"Our young people have front-row seats in the emerging biofabrication industry, and they (should they choose to enter it) can play a very influential role in the growth of this industry,” Johnson said.
Standing on stage in a large room filled with industry members, student finalists pitched their fictional companies and products to a panel of experts during the larger BioFab event, with inventor Dean Kamen and other ARMI leaders congratulating the winners.
After high school, students may consider the Biofabrication Technician Registered Apprenticeship Program, which allows entry into the field with a high school diploma or GED. Focusing on life sciences or manufacturing, the program combines classroom instruction with practical work.
“The curriculum doesn't exist really in higher education right now because it's a new field,” said Brian Bicknell, president of Manchester Community College. “As they're inventing new therapies, we are matching it with the curriculum.”
The 14 students currently enrolled in the apprentice program are learning about automated manufacturing, cell biology, data analytics and computer science. The embedded certificate program not only equips apprentices with essential skills but also opens up numerous opportunities for career advancement.
Using a pyramid metaphor, Bicknell illustrates the workforce hierarchy in regenerative medicine and biofabrication. The top features a select group of Ph.D.s, post-docs, engineers and scientists, whereas the base, supporting this structure, comprises technicians, with a ratio of about 20 to 30 techs per specialist.
Bicknell is currently working with other leaders in the higher education field toward a curriculum for a new associates degree that encompasses the skills required for this industry. The economic impact of ARMI could positively impact other community aspects, such as housing availability and the quality of child care services, he said.
“ARMI may end up being the real connective tissue that brings us all together,” Bicknell said.
— Kendal J. Bush
president of Manchester Community College.
On stage with Cookson at the DoubleTree were Jennifer MacDonald, ARMI’s chief operating officer; Ashley Marcoux, executive director of the newly formed NextGen Manchester Resiliency Council; Mike Decelle, dean of the UNH College of Professional Studies and campus director of UNH Manchester; and Stephen Thiel, assistant vice president of community impact at Southern New Hampshire University.
MacDonald, who is both a physician and a veteran, said workforce training, such as an apprenticeship program already underway, is essential to ARMI’s success.
“ARMI's mission is to develop a diverse, scalable, capable ecosystem for the manufacture of cells, tissues and organs. And yes, that may sound a bit like science fiction, but it is very real and very present,” said MacDonald, who previously served as senior adviser to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C.
“Just blocks from where we’re sitting right now, we are developing what are becoming lifesaving therapies," she said.
Some of those therapies are already reaching patients.
“One that started this year is a regenerative bone therapy for those who have had maxillofacial trauma, or a jaw injury, or head and neck or throat cancer, and need
regenerative restoration of their facial features,” MacDonald said. “There is a product on the market now, and making it to hospitals and making it to real patients, restoring form and function and quality of life for real people. This is right now. This is not only possible, but it’s actually happening.”
Decelle, who served as ARMI’s chief workforce officer for six years, says the region needs to make a long-term commitment to education and workforce development for ARMI to build a new industry here.
“Far too often, what causes an ecosystem to either not take root or to fade after a promising early start is the inability of that ecosystem to attract or produce a workforce that can enable its growth,” said Decelle, mentioning the success of Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Research Triangle in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; Silicon Valley in California; and other high-tech hubs.
“Ask the average venture capitalist ... It’s because they know that they can build companies out there,” Decelle said. “They will not say it’s because of the technology there.”
Former Dyn CEO Jeremy Hitchock is among the local entrepreneurs supporting the project. The managing partner of New North Ventures attended an investors
summit in October hosted by ARMI that included 21 new companies from across the United States.
Hitchcock and Colin Van Ostern, who serves on the NextGen Manchester Resiliency Council, made a pitch for ARMI in an op-ed published in NH Business Review in November. They cited startup companies working on curative therapies for diabetes, heart failure, vision loss and other diseases.
And the game has just begun: “In the story of this emerging industry, we are in the earliest of innings,” Hitchcock and Van Ostern wrote.
While that may be true, New Hampshire is home to long-established life sciences companies. Novocure, which makes devices that use electrical fields to kill cancer cells, has made Portsmouth its U.S. flagship for nearly 20 years.
Bill Doyle, the company’s chairman, likens the connections between Portsmouth, Cambridge, Mass., and Manchester to the growth of Silicon Valley, “where you have Stanford in the middle, but you’ve got startups, you’ve got big companies, you’ve got banks, you’ve got venture capitalists, you’ve got accountants, you’ve got lobbyists, and each piece of the ecosystem is necessary to bring the innovation from the lab to patients.”
ARMI is helping to expand that ecosystem, Doyle says.
“What Dean’s doing at ARMI is, first and foremost, expanding the critical mass here, and critical mass is important. He’s adding a research component and connecting it with his Millyard with everything that he’s built over 30 years at DEKA, the University of New Hampshire satellite that’s there, and 1 million square feet of mill space just ready for entrepreneurs.”
Kamen credits New Hampshire’s congressional delegation for supporting ARMI and helping to secure funding. State and local government also have been instrumental, he says.
ARMI will need even more champions if Manchester wants to become known worldwide as the go-to shop for a new kidney, heart or lung.
“Every great new entity starts with a small investment by people with vision and people with courage, until the rest of the world realizes, ‘We've got to get behind this thing,’” Kamen says. “But it takes that kind of leadership.” NH
For the 2024 Top Doctors Poll, we selected national research firm Castle Connolly to conduct the survey process. Included are 680 doctors in their chosen specialties, as nominated by their peers, who cover a wide range of medical needs from pediatrics to surgical care. We also asked several of this year’s Top Doctors to share a quotation, goal or anecdote that helps motivate or inspire them to continue practicing medicine at the highest level.
Addiction Medicine
Mitchell G. Cohen, M.D.
St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
Adolescent Medicine
Keith J. Loud, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Allergy & Immunology
Barbara L. Deuell, M.D.
Allergy Associates of New Hampshire allergiesnh.com
Amitha Harish, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
John N. Kalliel, M.D.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Amit Kumar, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Kevin Roelofs, M.D. Allergy Associates of New Hampshire allergiesnh.com
Marie-Helene Sajous, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Sarah A. Taylor-Black, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Anesthesiology
Myles Boone, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Kathleen Hoskinson Chaimberg, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Laura M. Chiang, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
William Ennis, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Dean Galatis, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Kylene E. Halloran, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Simon Hillier, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Brian Conley Spence, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Cardiac
Electrophysiology
Connor Haugh, M.D.
Catholic Medical Center Speare Memorial Hospital catholicmedicalcenter.org
Jinu J. John, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Jamie H. Kim, M.D. Catholic Medical Center Parkland Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Michael Mazzini, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Cardiovascular Disease
Steven P. Beaudette, M.D.
Catholic Medical Center St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua catholicmedicalcenter.org
Michelle A. Bejarano, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
William G. Berndt, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Robert Capodilupo, M.D. Catholic Medical Center Parkland Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Wendi Cardeiro, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Lahey Hospital & Medical Center snhhealth.org
Adam Chodosh, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord Hospital – Laconia concordhospital.org
Carolyn Davidson, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Peter Dourdoufis, D.O. York Hospital
Portsmouth Regional Hospital yorkhospital.com
Jonathan Eddinger, M.D. Catholic Medical Center Monadnock Community Hospital catholicmedicalcenter.org
Carl M. Fier, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Kalyan Ghanta, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Gregory M. Goodkin, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Stephen Hanlon, M.D. Catholic Medical Center Parkland Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Kevin F. Kwaku, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Michael E. Metzger, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Ayesha Nazeer, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord Hospital – Laconia concordhospital.org
Ernest J. Podrasky, Jr, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Sachin Saksena, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Steven L. Schwartz, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Lahey Hospital & Medical Center snhhealth.org
Peter W. Shaw, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Robert Spencer, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Jessica A. Sutherland, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Tong Zhu, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Craig L. Donnelly, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jennifer L. McLaren, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Amy Armstrong-Javors, M.D. Massachusetts General Hospital
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center massgeneral.org
John V. Flannery, Jr, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Jeffrey R. Harnsberger, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester
Elliot Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Sara W. Mayo, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Matthew Z. Wilson, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, Lebanon
Cheshire Medical Center, Keene
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Bedford
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Heater Road, Lebanon
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Lyme
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua
Lauren R. Wilson, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Lorenzo Klein, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Denise M. Aaron, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Heater Road dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Hamad Al Abdulrazzaq, M.D. Emerson Health emersonhospital.org
Anthony J. Aversa, M.D. Northeast Dermatology Associates nedermatology.com
James G. Dinulos, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
R. David Gordon, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Robert A. Guardiano, D.O. Cheshire Medical Center Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Kent S. Handfield, M.D. Adult & Pediatric Dermatology apderm.com
Andrew Kim, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Mollie A. MacCormack, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Gary W. Mendese, M.D. Dermatology and Skin Health dermskinhealth.com
Stephen D. Moyer, D.O. Dermatology and Skin Health dermskinhealth.com
Nicole C. Pace, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Heater Road dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jose Emilio Peraza, M.D. Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center mtascutneyhospital.org
Robert B. Posnick, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Gregory P. Seymour, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Daniel B. Stewart, M.D./PhD Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Andrew E. Werchniak, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Robert J. Willer, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Nina Sand-Loud, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Diagnostic Radiology
Elizabeth Angelakis, M.D. Catholic Medical Center Elliot Hospital catholicmedicalcenter.org
Gregory A. Bonci, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Constantine P. Brocoum, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Jocelyn D. Chertoff, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Elizabeth F. Clemente, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Matthew H. DiMasi, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Anthony M. Dinizio, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon
Dartmouth Hitchcock Specialty Care at Bedford Medical Park
Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, Windsor, Vermont
New London Hospital, New London
Southern New Hampshire Health
Elliot Health System
Adam Elias, M.D.
Catholic Medical Center Elliot Hospital catholicmedicalcenter.org
David W. Fontaine, M.D.
Catholic Medical Center Elliot Hospital catholicmedicalcenter.org
Stephen L. Foster, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
David Hou, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Concord, Nashua dartmouth-hitchcock.org
John J. Januario, M.D.
Catholic Medical Center Elliot Hospital catholicmedicalcenter.org
Steven E. Kammann, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Concord, Nashua dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Petra J. Lewis, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Todd A. Noce, D.O.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Concord, Nashua dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Marianne R. Petruccelli, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
John G. Pierce, M.D. Catholic Medical Center Elliot Hospital catholicmedicalcenter.org
Kevin Y. Rivera Colon, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Concord, Nashua dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jesse B. Smith, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Robert R. Sprague, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Michael H. Stella, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Peter Van Der Meer, M.D. Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Joseph G. Venus, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Richard J. Waite, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
D. Tyler Zapton, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Matthew R. Babineau, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jessica L. Brooks, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Sarah C. Crockett, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
John A. Curtis, Jr, M.D.
Cheshire Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Kevin M. Curtis, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
E. Paul DeKoning, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Harman S. Gill, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Linda Hatch, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Alison Payne Reid Kapadia, M.D.
Cheshire Medical Center Brattleboro Memorial Hospital catholicmedicalcenter.org
Patricia L. Lanter, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Kendra L. Larkin, M.D.
Cheshire Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Joseph Leahy, D.O.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Evadne G. Marcolini, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Todd D. Morrell, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Colin O’Brien, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Jennifer V. Pope, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Kevin Rankins, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Kristine M. Reid, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Robert D. Rix, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Scott W. Rodi, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Matthew Roginski, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Harneet S. Sethi, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center cheshiremed.org
James C. Suozzi, D.O. Cheshire Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Brett Sweeney, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Ian R. Symons, M.D.
Cheshire Medical Center Brattleboro Memorial Hospital catholicmedicalcenter.org
Thomas W. Trimarco, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Susan B. Varga, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Nicholas Weinberg, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Sadia Ashraf, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Sushela S. Chaidarun, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Ellie Chuang, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
Elliot Hospital snhhealth.org
Fahad Gilani, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.S.C.A.I.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR, STRUCTURAL HEART PROGRAM
CMC New England Heart & Vascular Institute
❛❛After completing my advanced interventional cardiology training at Boston University and Yale, I’ve been fortunate to work in New Hampshire. As the director of the structural heart disease program at CMC New England Heart & Vascular Institute, I have been able to fulfill my clinical and research endeavors at the highest level. I am honored to provide my patients the option of cutting-edge cardiovascular procedures. These procedures can significantly improve their quality of life and allow them to live longer. The lifelong relationships I have formed with my patients and their families is the most rewarding part of my profession.❜❜
Gregory Bonci, MD
Top Doctor: Diagnostic Radiology
Constantine Brocoum, MD
Top Doctor: Diagnostic Radiology
Elizabeth Clemente, MD
Top Doctor: Diagnostic Radiology
Matthew DImasi, MD
Top Doctor: Diagnostic Radiology
Anthony DInizio, MD
Top Doctor: Diagnostic Radiology
Steffen Haider, MD, mph
Rising Star: Interventional Radiology
Marianne PEtruccelli, MD
Top Doctor: Diagnostic Radiology
Ari Salis, MD
Top Doctor: Interventional Radiology
Jesse Smith, MD
Top Doctor: Diagnostic Radiology
Michael Stella, MD
Top Doctor: Diagnostic Radiology
Joseph Venus, MD
Top Doctor: Diagnostic Radiology
D.Tyler zapton, md
Top Doctor: Diagnostic Radiology
Concord Hospital Campus
Pillsbury Building
248 Pleasant Street, Suite 106
Concord, NH · (603) 415-2902
Horseshoe Pond Medical Center
60 Commercial Street, Suite 101 Concord NH · (603) 415-9444
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Our advanced technology, highly-trained staff of board certified radiologists, and comfortable patient-focused imaging centers give you peace of mind- and the confidence that you are receiving the best care available.
Lung Cancer Screening
Osteoporosis Screening
Colon Cancer Screening
3D Mammography
Same-Day X-Ray
Truly Open MRI
Ultrasound
CT Scan
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
❛❛As a kid, I learned from my mother how to care for my grandmother with dementia. I have no doubt about the influence of that experience in guiding my career. During 30 years of practice, from family medicine to nursing home work to palliative care, I have never questioned whether this is the right place for me. In my current role, I have the honor of sitting with patients and families during one of their most vulnerable times. I aim to find just the right treatment to manage their symptoms so they can have a better quality of life, listen to their worries and their hopes, and create a safe and compassionate space to say the hard things out loud. Often with medical illness there is fear and suffering; anything I can do to alleviate it, even just a little, is a good day’s work.❜❜
Andrew R. Crawford, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Pallavi Guddeti, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Concord, Nashua Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Nneka Iroka, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Matthew F. Kamil, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Nicola Kreglinger, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Paul T. Labinson, D.O. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Mini Mahata, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Mikhail Signalov, D.O. St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
Sue A. Taylor, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Facial Plastic Surgery/ Otolaryngology
Benoit J. Gosselin, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Christopher E. Allen, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Adam Androlia, D.O.
DMC Primary Care dmcprimarycare.com
J. Bryan Bannister, M.D. DMC Primary Care dmcprimarycare.com
Kyle T. Baron, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Anne Barry, D.O.
DMC Primary Care dmcprimarycare.com
Maria Boylan, D.O. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Teri L. Brehio, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Annika M. Brown, D.O.
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital alicepeckday.org
Joann Buonomano, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital wdhospital.org
Timothy E. Burdick, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Heater Road dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Maureen E. Cashman, M.D.
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Mayumi Chatani-Hinze, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Carolyn S. Crosby, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
John P. Daley, M.D. DMC Primary Care dmcprimarycare.com
Valerie J. Danielson, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Kevin M. Donovan, D.O. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Robert R. Dow, D.O. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Douglas R. Dreffer, M.D. DMC Primary Care dmcprimarycare.com
Peter H. Eckberg, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord concordhospital.org
Cristi M. Egenolf, M.D. DMC Primary Care dmcprimarycare.com
David V. Ferris, D.O. Ammonoosuc Community Health Services ammonoosuc.org
James F. Fitzgerald, M.D. DMC Primary Care dmcprimarycare.com
John Edward Ford, M.D. Weeks Medical Center weeksmedical.org
Rachel Franchi-Winters, D.O. Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
William E. Hassett, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital wdhospital.org
Scott C. Jaynes, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Heater Road dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Michael F. Kasschau, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Timothy G. Keenan, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Karolyn Lee, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Michelle S. Mancherje, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital wdhospital.org
Leah G. Matthew, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Heater Road dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Mary F. Merkel, D.O. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Merrimack dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Richard J. O’Brien, Jr., M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Steven T. Olive, M.D. Martin’s Point Health Care martinspoint.org
Michael A. Pangan, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Douglas Phelan, D.O. DMC Primary Care dmcprimarycare.com
David Reall, M.D. Huggins Hospital hugginshospital.com
Mark Reeder, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Tamara L. Shilling, D.O. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Rebecca R. Small, M.D. Elliot Hospital Solution Health Home & Hospice Care elliothospital.org
Michael F. Thompson, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Andrew G. Tremblay, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Michael B. Watto, D.O. Speare Memorial Hospital spearehospital.com
Katharine L. Wetherbee, D.O. DMC Primary Care dmcprimarycare.com
John H. Wheeler, D.O. Parkland Medical Center parklandmedicalcenter.com
Gastroenterology
Jeffrey M. Adler, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Vincent Aguirre, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Jack T. Bueno, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Congratulations to our Top Doctors for being recognized by your peers.
Thomas M. Albushies, MD PEDIATRICS
Christopher E. Allen, MD FAMILY MEDICINE
Kyle T. Baron, MD FAMILY MEDICINE
Michelle A. Bejarano, MD CARDIOLOGY
Gregory A. Bonci, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Teri L. Brehio, MD FAMILY MEDICINE
Frederick M. Briccetti, MD ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY
Constantine P. Brocoum, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Michael S. Buff, MD ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY
Ann C. Cabot, DO NEUROLOGY
Patrick J. Casey, MD ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
Adam Chodosh, MD CARDIOLOGY & ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
Paul R. Clark, MD GERIATRIC MEDICINE
Elizabeth F. Clemente, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Carolyn S. Crosby, MD FAMILY MEDICINE
Peter H. Crow, MD ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY
Matthew H. DiMasi, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Anthony M. Dinizio, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Gina M. DiVenuti, MD ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY
William Ennis, MD ANESTHESIOLOGY
Scott J. Fabozzi, MD UROLOGY
Erin S. Fogel, MD OPHTHALMOLOGY
Eliot D. Foley, MD OPHTHALMOLOGY
Stephen J. Fox, MD ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
Dean J. Galatis, MD ANESTHESIOLOGY
Leyla J. Ghazi, MD GASTROENTEROLOGY
Heidi Hallonquist, MD OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
Courtney B. Jones, MD OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
Matthew F. Kamil, MD ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES & METABOLISM
Amichai D. Kilchevsky, MD UROLOGY
Su K. Metcalfe, MD RADIATION ONCOLOGY
James A. Mirazita, MD PAIN MEDICINE
Robert E. Mitchell, MD UROLOGY
Anthony V. Mollano, MD ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
Shahab Moossavi, MD INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY
Ayesha Nazeer, MD CARDIOLOGY
James T. Noble, MD INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Richard J. O’Brien Jr., MD FAMILY MEDICINE
Scott Oosterveen, MD GASTROENTEROLOGY
Marianne R. Petruccelli, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
David C. Picard, MD SLEEP MEDICINE
Robert D. Rix, MD EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Bryan P. Rowe, MD RADIATION ONCOLOGY
Ari I. Salis, MD INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY
William F. Santis, MD UROLOGY
Douglas R. Scott, MD OPHTHALMOLOGY
Meredith J. Selleck, MD ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY
Tajammul Shafique, MD GENERAL SURGERY
Thomas A. Sheldon, MD RADIATION ONCOLOGY
Tamara L. Shilling, DO FAMILY MEDICINE
Hoke H. Shirley, MD RHEUMATOLOGY
Jesse B. Smith, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Michael H. Stella, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Praveen Suchdev, MD PAIN MEDICINE
Leslie Suranyi Jr., MD NEUROLOGY
Robert D. Thomson, MD GASTROENTEROLOGY
Veronica Triaca, MD UROLOGY
Joseph G. Venus, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Richard James Waite, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Jeanna Walsh, MD ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY
Douglas Jay Weckstein, MD ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY
David A. Weinberg, MD OPHTHALMOLOGY
Christopher M. Weinmann, MD GENERAL SURGERY
D. Tyler Zapton, MD DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY
Mark Horton, M.D. PAIN MEDICINE
Cheshire Medical Center
❛❛Pain management can mean many things to many people. To me, it means helping patients find the tools and treatments necessary for them to achieve more comfortable and more functional lives. My motivation comes from listening to and helping to meet my patients’ needs.❜❜
Christopher N. Dainiak, M.D. Parkland Medical Center Catholic Medical Center parklandmedicalcenter.com
Aristotle J. Damianos, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital York Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Roger M. Epstein, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital York Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Timothy B. Gardner, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Leyla J. Ghazi, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Stuart R. Gordon, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Andrew C. Gorske, M.D.
Cheshire Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Arathi R. Komarla, M.D.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
L. Campbell Levy, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jennifer M. Lewis, M.D.
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital York Hospital wdhospital.org
Sean P. Lynch, M.D.
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Frisbie Memorial Hospital wdhospital.org
William E. Maher, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Trinh B. Meyer, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester Elliot Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Srikrishna Nagri, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Scott Oosterveen, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Matthew J. Rockacy, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Robert A. Ruben, M.D.
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Frisbie Memorial Hospital wdhospital.org
Timothy D. Scherer, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Corey A. Siegel, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Mark J. Silversmith, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Robert D. Thomson, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Marylyn V. Grondin, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital York Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Brian Hyett, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital York Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Michael R. Kaczanowski, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Dmitriy Kedrin, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Sung E. Jang, M.D.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Ilana E. Cass, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Cancer Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Loyd A. West, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Cancer Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Roderick Bruno, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Crawford C. Campbell, M.D. Steward Holy Family Hospital Parkland Medical Center holyfamilyhospital.org
Robert J. Heaps, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua snhhealth.org
Nicholas J. Horangic, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Nashua, Concord Elliot Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Anthony V. Mollano, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
H. Matthew Quitkin, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital York Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Jinsong Wang, M.D./PhD Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Elizabeth M. Bengtson, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Cancer Center Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Archana Bhargava, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Arifa Toor, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Masooma Athar, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Samuel J. Goldman, D.O.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Sarah J. MacDuffie, D.O. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Donald B. McDonah, M.D. St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
Charles S. Mills, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Infectious Disease
Nida Arif, M.D. Elliot Hospital
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Michael S. Calderwood, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Roma L. Cruz-King, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Elliot Hospital snhhealth.org
Alexander Granok, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Elliot Hospital snhhealth.org
James T. Noble, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Geetika Sharma, M.D. Elliot Hospital Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Internal Medicine
Pamela S. Ali, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Paul R. Clark, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Gus G. Emmick, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Frederick M. Briccetti, M.D. Concord Hospital Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center concordhospital.org
Kenneth Meehan, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Cancer Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Linda Kornfeld, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Lisa A. Leinau, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Sarah H. Finn, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Nashua, Concord Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Andrea H. Greenfeld, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Virginia Hassett, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Heather L. Marks, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Todd Mellish, D.O.
Southern New Hampshire Health snhhealth.org
These physicians are representative of the excellent providers throughout Core Physicians’ primary, pediatric and specialty care network. Together, we provide comprehensive, patient-centered care throughout the Seacoast.
William Berndt, MD Core Cardiology
Alexandra Bonesho, MD Core Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine
John Brennan, MD Core Pulmonary
Roderick Bruno, MD Core Orthopedics
A. Neil Clerk, MD Core Orthopedics
Paul Deranian, MD Core Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Eileen Forrest, MD Core Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine
Gregory Goodkin, MD Core Cardiology
603-580-6668
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Peter Ihm, MD Core Otolaryngology & Audiology
Amit Joglekar, MD Core Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Kristen Johnson, MD Core Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine
Jennifer Jones, MD Core Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine
Cullen Jumper, MD Core Urology
Timothy Keenan, MD Core Primary Care
Daniel Kunz, DO Core Rheumatology
Steven Loh, MD Core Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine
Mini Mahata, MD Core Endocrinology
Thomas McGovern, MD Core Orthopedics
Michael Pangan, MD Core Primary Care
Ernest Podrasky, MD Core Cardiology
Mark Reeder, MD Core Primary Care
Jessica Sutherland, MD Core Cardiology
Jay Swett, MD Core General Surgery
Daniel Zipin, DO Core Physiatry & Spine Care
Bedford Commons OB-GYN
❛❛I started out my OB/GYN residency thinking that I wanted to specialize in oncology, but as I went through the residency, I realized how much I would miss the obstetrics area in addition to doing gynecology. Now as the years have passed, I have learned that my passion lies in caring for pregnant women and being there for that special moment when a family welcomes a new member. I am so grateful that I work in a practice where my partners at Bedford Commons OB/GYN encourage me to live my passion. I am surrounded by an amazing team at Elliot Hospital Labor and Delivery to provide stellar care to families and moms in New Hampshire.❜❜
Jennifer P. Packard, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Kevin Y. Pho, M.D. St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
Donald E. Reape, M.D. St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
Andrew R. Rosen, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Pamela R. Schultze, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Kevin A. Silva, M.D. Littleton Regional Hospital littletonhealthcare.org
Lijun Song, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Vijaya Upadrasta, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Tanja VanderLinde, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Salvatore J. Vella, Jr, D.O.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Craig P. Widness, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Yvonne F. Wilson, M.D. Mass General Brigham Integrated Care massgeneralbrigham.org
Jeffrey F. Bleakley, M.D. Catholic Medical Center Parkland Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Paul Boffetti, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Jonathan Bridges, M.D. York Hospital
Portsmouth Regional Hospital yorkhospital.com
Jeffrey Colnes, M.D. York Hospital
Portsmouth Regional Hospital yorkhospital.com
James DeVries, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Cheshire Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
James M. Flynn, M.D.
Catholic Medical Center Parkland Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Fahad S. Gilani, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Stephan Heo, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Aaron V. Kaplan, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Johny Kuttab, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Shahab Moossavi, M.D.
Concord Hospital
Concord Hospital – Laconia concordhospital.org
Christopher T. Pyne, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Lahey Hospital & Medical Center snhhealth.org
Xiaoyu Yang-Giuliano, M.D. Catholic Medical Center Speare Memorial Hospital catholicmedicalcenter.org
Michael N. Young, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Emily R. Baker, M.D.
DHMC and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester and Nashua Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
E. Rebecca Pschirrer, M.D. DHMC and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester and Nashua Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Michelle A. Russell, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Cherif Abdelmalek, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Michael S. Buff, M.D.
Concord Hospital Catholic Medical Center concordhospital.org
Peter H. Crow, M.D.
Concord Hospital Catholic Medical Center concordhospital.org
Gina M. DiVenuti, M.D.
Concord Hospital Catholic Medical Center concordhospital.org
Konstantin Dragnev, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Cancer Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Kathryn C. Hourdequin, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Cancer Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Gautami S. Rao, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Massachusetts General Hospital snhhealth.org
Meredith J. Selleck, M.D. Concord Hospital Catholic Medical Center concordhospital.org
Prashant Shankar, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Keisuke Shirai, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Cancer Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Zachary S. Spigelman, M.D. Lahey Hospital & Medical Center Parkland Medical Center lahey.org
Jeanna Walsh, M.D. Concord Hospital Catholic Medical Center concordhospital.org
Douglas Jay Weckstein, M.D. Concord Hospital Catholic Medical Center concordhospital.org
James E. Gray, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Lauren M. Priolo, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Steven A. Ringer, M.D./PhD Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Nephrology
Kulli M. Barrett, M.D. Frisbie Memorial Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Peter Cheung, M.D. Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Michael Casimir Danielski, M.D. Frisbie Memorial Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Sean W. Fitzpatrick, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Catholic Medical Center St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua snhhealth.org
David S. Friedenberg, D.O. Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
Exeter Hospital/Core Physicians
❛❛After shadowing my grandfather, a physician, growing up, I chose a career in sports medicine with a focus in shoulder surgery, which was a burgeoning field. Reverse shoulder replacements had recently been approved and the field was exploding. I also knew that having the opportunity to work with professional athletes would allow me to have exposure to the best training and cuttingedge techniques. I am still excited to be a part of an ever-evolving profession 20 years later. Most importantly, it has been a privilege to use my skills to care for my community.❜❜
Maryam Gul, M.D.
Cheshire Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Charles W. Hopley, M.D., M.P.H., Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Sucharit Joshi, M.D.
Frisbie Memorial Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Shiv Kumar, M.D.
Frisbie Memorial Hospital
Portsmouth Regional Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Krupa S. Rajur, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
Catholic Medical Center St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua snhhealth.org
Ana Stankovic, M.D. Parkland Medical Center parklandmedicalcenter.com
Katharine M. Cronk, M.D./PhD Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Gareth M. Davies, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Neal Luther, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Hulda B. Magnadottir, M.D.
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital Gifford Medical Center alicepeckday.org
Tung T. Nguyen, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Henry F. Pallatroni, III, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Harold J. Pikus, M.D.
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital alicepeckday.org
Nathan E. Simmons, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Paul P. Wang, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Neurology
Ann C. Cabot, D.O. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Khosro Farhad, M.D.
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital wdhospital.org
Jason Fleming, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Valerie E. Gendron, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Barbara C. Jobst, M.D.
Keith J. McAvoy, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Aleksandra C. Stark, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Geoffrey Starr, M.D. Androscoggin Valley Hospital Weeks Medical Center avhnh.org
Leslie Suranyi, Jr, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Vijay M. Thadani, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Rebecca J. Thompson, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Gary D. Usher, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Roya Vakili, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Clifford J. Eskey, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Rihan Khan, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Corey N. Sides, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Nashua, Concord dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jeffrey B. Mendel, M.D. Parkland Medical Center Portsmouth Regional Hospital parklandmedicalcenter.com
Danielle Albushies, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Jenny G. Backman, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Valerie A. Bell, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Julie A. Braga, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Monica J. Chun, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Mark A. Conway, M.D. St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
Jennifer M. Donofrio, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Jillian K. Dulac, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Rebecca H. Evans, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Heather Feltmate, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Heidi Hallonquist, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Lara C. Hanlon, M.D. Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Kristine Henneberry, D.O. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Courtney B. Jones, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Janine Keever, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Kelly M. MacMillan, M.D. St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
Melissa Martinez-Adorno, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Karen K. Maynard, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Naresh Matta, M.D.
Frisbie Memorial Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Kevin B. Meyer, M.D.
Catholic Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester catholicmedicalcenter.org
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Ana G. Lizama, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Rebecca Banaski, D.O. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Kristen L. Bannister, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Colleen M. Barber, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Heidi Meinz, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Deborah A. Mueller, M.D. Huggins Hospital hugginshospital.com
Lisbeth A. Murphy, M.D. Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
We are proud to congratulate our doctors who have earned recognition from their peers as New Hampshire’s Top Doctors in Family Medicine. These doctors represent all of the excellent DMC providers who continually provide high-quality, patient-centered care.
Jay Bryan Bannister, MD (Bedford)
Cristi Egenolf, MD (Derry)
Douglas Phelan, DO (Windham)
James Fitzgerald, MD (Bedford & Goffstown)
John Daley, MD (Derry)
John Wheeler, DO (Derry)
Katharine Wetherbee, DO (Londonderry)
Anne Barry, DO (Windham)
Adam Androlia, DO (Bedford & Derry)
Douglas Dreffer, MD (Concord)
Concord Imaging Center
❛❛My love of radiology stems from unraveling medical mysteries through imaging. Radiology serves as a vital bridge between technology and compassionate care, providing crucial insights into our patients’ health. My partners, myself, and all our staff at Concord Imaging Center are committed to serving our community utilizing imaging expertise to enhance health care delivery and positively impact patients’ lives.
Joshua M. Nathan, M.D.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Sonja Nelson, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Samantha R. Pawlowski, M.D.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Adili L. Shay, M.D.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Brenna Corbett Stapp, D.O.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Jennifer Weidner, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Claudia Bartolini, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital Exeter Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Kinley Beck, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital Wentworth-Douglass Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Timothy D. Blake, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua snhhealth.org
Anthony J. Correnti, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Sonalee M. Desai-Bartoli, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua snhhealth.org
Janine R. Eagle, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Maxwell D. Elia, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Ahad A. Fazelat, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Erin S. Fogel, M.D.
Concord Eye Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Eliot D. Foley, M.D.
Concord Eye Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Warren Goldblatt, M.D.
Frisbie Memorial Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Jason A. Hall, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Amy L. Hennessy, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Marsha Kavanagh, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital Wentworth-Douglass Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Richard J. Lasonde, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital Wentworth-Douglass Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Donald M. Miller, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Christiana E. Munroe, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Paul S. Musco, M.D.
Speare Memorial Hospital spearehospital.com
Purak Parikh, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Newton T. Peters, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Patrick Joseph Riddle, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua snhhealth.org
Erin M. Salcone, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Douglas R. Scott, M.D. Concord Hospital – Laconia concordhospital-laconia.org
Timothy Sullivan, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital Wentworth-Douglass Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Lucian Szmyd, Jr, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital Exeter Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
David A. Weinberg, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Melissa M. Wong, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Michael E. Zegans, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Uri Michael Ahn, M.D. New Hampshire NeuroSpine Institute nhneurospine.com
James B. Ames, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Daniel P. Bouvier, M.D.
St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua Southern New Hampshire Medical Center stjosephhospital.com
Avnish N. Clerk, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Jeffrey Clingman, M.D. Frisbie Memorial Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Marcus P. Coe, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Glen D. Crawford, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital York Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Mark C. Cullen, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital wdhospital.org
Alexander D. Davis, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Robert F. Davis, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Frances D. Faro, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center New London Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Stephen J. Fox, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Mark J. Geppert, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital wdhospital.org
Ida Leah Gitajn, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Ricardo A. Gonzales, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Douglas M. Goumas, M.D. Catholic Medical Center
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Eric R. Henderson, M.D.
Fletcher R. Wilson, M.D.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Phillip B. Collins, M.D. Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital alicepeckday.org
David P. Lawlor, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Vasilios P. Lazos, D.O. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Kimberly Licciardi, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Eric Arvidson, M.D. Steward Holy Family Hospital Parkland Medical Center holyfamilyhospital.org
John-Erik Bell, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Eric R. Benson, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Concord Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Cherie Holmes, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Heather C. Killie, M.D. Catholic Medical Center
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Bryan Lawless, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
WHAT DR. WILTON HAS TO OFFER
Dr. Wilton specializes in treating chronic leg, ankle and foot pain. These can be for various reasons, such as injury, previous surgery, or neuropathy.
Patients that he treats have often been seen by many providers previously and still have not found a solution for their chronic pain. When it comes to peripheral nerve injury and treatment, Dr. Wilton states that many providers don’t have many solutions aside from oral medications.
However, on a recent case that he worked, Dr. Wilton was able to diagnose and treat a patient into unmedicated pain remission for the first time in years. There are two physicians in Massachusetts that provide this specialized treatment option, but none in Vermont or New Hampshire. Dr. Wilton has had patients travel from as far way as Saudi Arabia and Hawaii to seek his expertise and treatment.
Dr. Wilton’s patients often experience a dramatic decrease or altogether end to their chronic pain.
In addition, Dr. Wilton was recently honored by becoming the first podiatrist admitted to the American Society of Peripheral Nerve.
Though Dr. Wilton specializes in peripheral nerve pain and treatment, he also provides a range of other podiatry services such as the treatment of sprains and fractures, plus total conservative and interventional management of foot, ankle, and lower leg conditions.
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Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
❛❛Many patients are unaware of all the behind the scenes work we do on their behalf to overcome the many barriers we need to provide the care that they deserve. For example, tests must be ordered and often need prior approval from insurance companies. This is frustrating for doctors and patients alike. My goal as a physician is to do what I can to break down the barriers to access of patients to the care that they need. It often means putting in long hours and advocating on their behalf, but it’s worth it to help my patients live healthier, happier lives.❜❜
Gregory Leather, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Glenn S. Lieberman, M.D.
Frisbie Memorial Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Timothy J. Lin, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Thomas F. McGovern, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Marc J. Michaud, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Wayne E. Moschetti, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Mayo Noerdlinger, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital York Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Jason A. Oliviero, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Nashua, Concord Elliot Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Alexander R. Orem, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Gifford Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Robert C. Parisien, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Ira M. Parsons, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Adam M. Pearson, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Anthony H. Presutti, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Akhilesh Sastry, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Paul Scibetta, Jr, D.O.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Edward A. Sirlin, III, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Gregory W. Soghikian, M.D. Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Mary-Lee Sole, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Michael B. Sparks, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
William S. Sutherland, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital York Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Adrian J. Thomas, M.D.
David C. Thut, M.D.
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital wdhospital.org
James C. Vailas, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Lance G. Warhold, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Gavin R. Webb, M.D.
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital wdhospital.org
Tyler P. Welch, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital York Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Otolaryngology
James P. Bartels, M.D. Bartels Facial Rejuvenation drbartelsnh.com
Eunice Y. Chen, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Peter Soon Ihm, M.D. Exeter Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital exeterhospital.com
Keith Jorgensen, M.D. Parkland Medical Center parklandmedicalcenter.com
Christopher Knox, D.O. Frisbie Memorial Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Joseph A. Paydarfar, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
James E. Saunders, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Sarah S. Seo, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Mark C. Smith, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Andrew R. Spector, M.D.
Elliot Hospital
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Pain Medicine
Musa Aner, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Mark A. Horton, M.D.
Cheshire Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
George B. Lantz, D.O.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
James A. Mirazita, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
Concord Hospital – Laconia snhhealth.org
Praveen Suchdev, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
Concord Hospital – Laconia snhhealth.org
Pathology
Michael L. Baker, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jessica L. Bentz, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
John P. Bissonnette, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
Elliot Hospital snhhealth.org
Candice C. Black, D.O.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Heather L. Crowley, M.D.
Elliot Hospital
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center elliothospital.org
Anil K. Dewan, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
Elliot Hospital snhhealth.org
Nancy M. Dunbar, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jorge L. Gonzalez, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Edward J. Gutmann, M.D.
Kevin J. McGuire, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center New London Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
William J. McKinnon, Jr, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Benjamin Michael Thompson, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital Frisbie Memorial Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Jeffrey M. Zimmerman, M.D.
Elliot Hospital
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Prabhjot Kaur, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Robert E. LeBlanc, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Mikhail Lisovsky, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jonathan D. Marotti, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Kristen E. Muller, D.O. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jason R. Pettus, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Weldon W. Sanford, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
James Samuel Smoot, M.D. Elliot Hospital Southern New Hampshire Medical Center elliothospital.org
Kremena V. Star, M.D./PhD Elliot Hospital Southern New Hampshire Medical Center elliothospital.org
Arief A. Suriawinata, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Zbigniew M. Szczepiorkowski, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Karen N. Wu, M.D.
Optima Dermatology - Laboratory optimadermatology.com
Shaofeng Yan, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
George J. Zanazzi, M.D./PhD Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Robert W. Hickey, M.D. Allergy Associates of New Hampshire allergiesnh.com
Christopher J. Clarke, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
David I. Crowley, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jenifer Glatz, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Thomas B. Johnson, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Kelly L. Corbett, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Pediatric Dermatology
Julianne A. Mann, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jillian F. Rork, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Maia S. Rutman, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Emily A. Zajano, M.D.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Pediatric Endocrinology
Robert C. Gensure, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Amer Al-Nimr, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Anthony H. Repucci, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Julie L. Sanville, D.O.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Julie Kim, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Cancer Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Alexander Granok, M.D., F.A.C.P.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Southern New Hampshire Health
❛❛It’s hard to believe that it’s been four years since the arrival of COVID-19. From the beginning of the pandemic, infectious disease physicians were asked to provide advice and give their opinions, even when we had very little to go on. It always seemed like we were one step behind, things changed so fast. However, in the end, we were able to replace wild speculation with facts, we gained the tools needed to fight the virus, and we were able to help guide our patients and communities through the worst of it. I’m proud to have played a small part in getting us there.❜❜
Angela M. Ricci, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Cancer Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Matthew M. Hand, D.O.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Daniel P. Croitoru, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Eileen M. Duggan, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Alexandra D. Bonesho, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Candice L. Camacho, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Charles T. Cappetta, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Mark D. Carney, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Leslie S. Dick, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Keith R. Dominick, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Danielle L. Dunetz, D.O. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Eileen Forrest, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Matthew J. Hajduk, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Marc A. Hofley, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
John R. Hollister, Jr, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Samantha A. House, D.O. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Nancy S. Husarik, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Jessica P. Jacobs, M.D. Weeks Medical Center weeksmedical.org
Kristen C. Johnson, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Ryan C. Johnson, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Tessa J. Lafortune-Greenberg, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Terri L. Lally, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital wdhospital.org
Steven P. Loh, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Michele D. Mandel, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Heather A. Mane, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Lila H. Monahan, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Mark D. Myers, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Theresa M. Oliveira, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Andrea Palumbo, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Jessica S. Payton, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Mitchell N. Pivor, M.D. Frisbie Memorial Hospital Wentworth-Douglass Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Todd M. Poret, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Christopher M. Riccio, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Geraldine Rubin, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Donald E. Salvatore, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Marni A. Silverstein, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Alyssa R. Smith, M.D. Pediatric Associates of Hampton & Portsmouth pediatricassociatesnh.com
Sandra F. Truebe, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Pamela S. Udomprasert, M.D. Frisbie Memorial Hospital frisbiehospital.com
Linda A. Williams, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Hilary A. Yehling, M.D. Elliot Hospital Southern New Hampshire Medical Center elliothospital.org
Denise E. Youssef, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Thomas M. Frates, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Aron M. Jeffrey, D.O. New Hampshire NeuroSpine Institute nhneurospine.com
Bruce Myers, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital wdhospital.org
Daniel S. Zipin, D.O. Exeter Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital exeterhospital.com
Plastic Surgery
Cecil W. Bean, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Frisbie Memorial Hospital wdhospital.org
Steven L. Brown, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Todd E. Burdette, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Meghna V. Misra, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Elizabeth S. Soukup, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Pediatrics
Thomas M. Albushies, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Jennifer L. Jones, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Gregory Kaupp, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
John Klunk, M.D.
Elliot Hospital
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center elliothospital.org
Andrew J. Schuman, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Erik M. Shessler, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Catherine D. Shubkin, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Gary L. Freed, Jr, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jeremy Waldman, M.D. St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
Psychiatry
Paul F. Belliveau, M.D. Coastal Counseling Associates catholicmedicalcenter.org
Dr Russell G. Sarver, M.D. is a boardcertified urologist with over 25 years of experience working with patients of all ages. Dr. Sarver graduated from Rutgers Medical School. He completed a two-year general surgery residency and a fouryear urology residency at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson, Arizona.
He then completed a fellowship at Virginia Mason Medical Center, where his focus was Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation and Advanced General Urology.
Dr. Sarver has practiced in New Hampshire and Vermont for over 20 years, where he enjoys providing care to his community. His professional interests include nephrolithiasis, benign prostatic hyperplasia, voiding dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, urinary tract infection, urinary
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Julia R. Frew, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Sreenivas Katragadda, M.D. LifeStance Health lifestance.com
Haitham Al Ashry, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Graham T. Atkins, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Copley Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
John P. Brennan, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
James L. Carroll, Jr, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Christopher C. Daigle, M.D. St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
Paul Deranian, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Sunil Dhunna, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Richard I. Enelow, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Joseph C. Hou, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Amit Joglekar, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Brian L. Jones, M.D./PhD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Harold Manning, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Vinia Madonna C. Mendoza, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Muhammad Mirza, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Richard N. Read, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jeffrey V. Brower, M.D./PhD
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Elliot Hospital wdhospital.org
Brian R. Knab, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Jeffrey Lemons, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Lahey Hospital & Medical Center wdhospital.org
Su K. Metcalfe, M.D.
Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Bryan P. Rowe, M.D.
Concord Hospital Wentworth-Douglass Hospital concordhospital.org
Thomas Sheldon, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Himanshu Singh, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Bassem I. Zaki, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Joseph A. Hill, III, M.D. Winchester Hospital winchesterhospital.org
Thomas L. Toth, M.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Boston bidmc.org
Kristen Wright, M.D. Elliot Hospital
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Boston elliothospital.org
Daniel A. Albert, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Christopher M. Burns, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Todd F. Dombrowski, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center chesmiremed.org
Kalyani Govindaraju, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Irene Orzano Hou, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Daniel Kunz, D.O. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Douglas F. Marks, Jr, M.D.
Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Naureen Mirza, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Aparna Raju Padmaraju, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Hoke H. Shirley, III, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Robert W. Simms, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Sleep Medicine
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David C. Picard, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Michele G. Rush, M.D. Concord Hospital – Laconia concordhospital-laconia.org
Sports Medicine
Patrick Casey, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Christopher J. Couture, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital wdhospital.org
Tahsin Ergin, M.D. Steward Holy Family Hospital Parkland Medical Center holyfamilyhospital.org
Jeffrey I. Kauffman, M.D. Littleton Regional Hospital littletonhealthcare.org
Peter M. Loescher, M.D. Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital alicepeckday.org
Jonathan Mack, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
John Andrew McMahon, D.O. Portsmouth Regional Hospital York Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Joshua A. Siegel, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
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Elizabeth Angelakis, MD
Joseph Azar, MD
Karina Bosman, MD
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Tanner Clark, MD
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Scott Greenwald, MD
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Bryce Lowrey, MD
Asim Maher, DO
Victor Nwokocha, MD
Romil Patel, MD
Javier Perez-Rodriguez, MD
John Pierce, MD
Jeffrey Potter, MD
Jason Rothschild, MD
Thomas Rousseau, PA-C
Dan Sheibley, MD
Robert Sprague, MD
Ryan Stephany, PA-C
Anish Sureshkumar, MD
Peter van der Meer, MD
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Stacey Abbis, M.D.
St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua stjosephhospital.com
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Alexandra Briggs, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
H. E. Guy Burman, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center cheshiremed.org
Robert A. Catania, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Catholic Medical Center snhhealth.org
Robert J. Chastanet, M.D. Speare Memorial Hospital spearehospital.com
David J. Coppola, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
David A. Gould, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester Elliot Hospital dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Rajan Gupta, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Daiying Lu, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Christopher Lundquist, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Patrick Mahon, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Eric D. Martin, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Tawakalitu O. Oseni, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center snhhealth.org
Kurt K. Rhynhart, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Alice Rocke, M.D. Littleton Regional Hospital littletonhealthcare.org
Kari M. Rosenkranz, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jessica L. Ryan, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Tajammul Shafique, M.D.
Concord Hospital – Laconia
Concord Hospital concordhospital-laconia.org
Meredith J. Sorensen, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jay W. Swett, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Richard Joseph Tomolonis, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Christopher M. Weinmann, M.D. Concord Hospital – Laconia Concord Hospital concordhospital-laconia.org
Andrew Wu, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
David J. Caparrelli, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
David J. Finley, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Jock N. McCullough, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Joseph D. Phillips, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Curtis C. Quinn, M.D. Elliot Hospital elliothospital.org
Gerald L. Sardella, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Benjamin M. Westbrook, M.D. Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Elizabeth C. Chase, M.D. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Deeptha Sastry, M.D. Portsmouth Regional Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Kris Strohbehn, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Catholic Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Veronica Triaca, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Urology
Hernan Altamar, M.D.
Portsmouth Regional Hospital
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital portsmouthhospital.com
Lawrence M. Dagrosa, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Gary N. Dunetz, M.D.
St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua Southern New Hampshire Medical Center stjosephhospital.com
Scott J. Fabozzi, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Christopher R. Girasole, M.D. Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Elizabeth Ann Gormley, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Martin S. Gross, M.D. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Cheshire Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Cullen M. Jumper, M.D. Exeter Hospital exeterhospital.com
Trisha J. Kammann, M.D. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua snhhealth.org
Amichai D. Kilchevsky, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Shilpa Lamba, M.D.
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital wdhospital.org
Sarah J. McAleer, M.D. Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Robert E. Mitchell, M.D. Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
John J. Munoz, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Cyrus B. Noble, M.D.
Elliot Hospital
Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Cormac E. O’Neill, M.D.
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital wdhospital.org
Vernon M. Pais, Jr, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Rick D. Phelps, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester dartmouth-hitchcock.org
George F. Quimby, M.D.
Cheshire Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
William Farber Santis, M.D.
Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
William A. Selleck, M.D.
Elliot Hospital Catholic Medical Center elliothospital.org
Samuel T. Snipes, M.D.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua snhhealth.org
Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Jeffrey P. Chapdelaine, M.D. St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
John M. Gemery, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Eric K. Hoffer, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Nancy J. McNulty, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Ari I. Salis, M.D.
Concord Hospital concordhospital.org
Vascular Surgery
James M. Estes, M.D.
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital wdhospital.org
Patricia C. Furey, M.D.
Catholic Medical Center catholicmedicalcenter.org
Philip Goodney, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Richard Powell, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
David H. Stone, M.D.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center dartmouth-hitchcock.org
Laurence P. Young, M.D. St. Joseph Hospital - Nashua stjosephhospital.com
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last March. “I really want to make the inside and outside come together in a very symbiotic way,” she says. When redecorating for spring, Arcone suggests mixing bright hues with personal touches and plenty of greenery.
Designer Amanda Arcone with New England Home & Interiors arranges accessories in her Franconia kitchenSpring can feel invigorating: It’s officially ice-out (if we’re lucky), the birds have returned, and seed stores buzz with activity.
To celebrate the change of season, consider giving a well-loved room in your home a face lift.
Decluttering while reinventing a space? Hidden time-saver!
Local interior designers say after the holiday rush, redecorating is a natural next step.
“Pulling everything out of the attic and putting everything away kind of ignites this (need to redecorate),” says Amanda Arcone, owner and designer with New England Home & Interiors in Lincoln.
Hanna Schaffer, co-founder and principal designer at Forest + Ash Design Company in Exeter, says it’s almost a rite of passage in New England.
“We all crave a bit of color and lightness after the long stretch of dark, cold days,” she says.
Redecorating doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. Bring the outside in, explore color and reimagine what could be.
So, what are your goals?
Ask yourself, “How do I want to feel in this room?” or “How do I want this space to feel for the season that I’m in?” Arcone says.
Will it be a relaxing place, a game room or a social place? Whatever it is, be organized about it.
“Be thoughtful about how you’re using the space, so you can then develop a functional plan that fits within your aesthetic. Measure your space, measure everything you have in it and figure out what it is you want to accomplish,” Arcone says.
Jennifer Myers, a designer with Weekender House in Portsmouth, agrees. “Have a plan before you start buying furnishings. That way, you don’t make purchases that you wind up not using,” she says.
For extra inspiration, view designers’ Instagram pages, flip through design magazines, or create a mood board by gathering up your favorite pics to see how it will all tie together, or to shop for similar pieces.
“Collect photos of interiors that resonate with you,” Myers suggests.
A fresh coat of paint can immediately brighten and rejuvenate a space. Darker, saturated paint colors, earth tones like browns
and terra cottas, and warm, muted colors like greens or soft pinks are all excellent choices.
Myers says smoky blues and navy blues are popular picks for her seaside clients.
“We’ve seen a lot of deep dark greens, which I think will always be popular. Brown is coming in strong, along with light mauves and really soft pinks. Paint is magical,” Arcone says.
Schaffer agrees that warmer colors are taking center stage.
“We are stepping away from gray
everything — it feels so cold and dated. Warmer tones are now desirable. We love incorporating greige and beige paint colors, real wood tones like oak and walnut,” Schaffer says.
Redecorate your walls
Consider wallpaper as another design element. Floral patterns are timeless; nautical designs reflect a seaside environment. Choices abound.
“There’s a paper for every style. A square room can really come alive with wallpaper that fits the aesthetic and mood that you’re after,” Arcone says.
Dozens of peel-and-stick, and even removable wallpaper options, make things even easier, especially for renters.
“It provides a way to make boring beige walls come to life,” Arcone says.
Textured walls, meanwhile, can add depth.
“Textured walls are coming back, especially in those painted, warm, earthy colors. It provides another layer of warmth and texture,” she says.
Start small
Freshening up minor details can make a big difference. For example, place a small table
by your living room window to create a reading nook or mini-space. Nano changes can make larger projects seem doable.
“Let people dip their toes in ... let’s start with the powder room or small office. Once they do one room, they want to (re-decorate) everywhere,” Myers suggests.
Take design cues from what’s around you, whether it’s coastline, mountains, woodlands or lakes. Coastal styles often include myriad shades of blue. A classic navy blue can act as a neutral color, like black, Myers says.
“Blue is always going to be relevant when you live by the water. You want to reflect where you are,” Myers says. “If you live by the ocean or even a lake house, it’s never going to be weird to have blue in your house — it’s going to make perfect sense.”
Arcone, who has an office near several White Mountains ski resorts, also looks to her surroundings for ideas.
“I’m inspired quite a bit from nature. I start with a natural palette. A lot of our homes up here have really large windows,” Arcone says. “So, I really want to make the
inside and outside come together. I love natural quartz and a lot of natural materials.”
Reevaluate your furniture. Could a piece still make sense in a dining room nook or a corner of your bedroom? “For anyone who’s on a budget, moving your furniture is always a really good idea, and shopping your home. If you’re on a really tight budget, but you want to spruce things up, that’s a great way to do it,” Arcone says.
Just like mixing patterns and design styles, how you light your new space can be transformative. Recessed lighting, wall sconces and library lights can set the mood, accent favorite mementos or a special dresser, and add coziness. Schaffer suggests LED bulbs with a temperature of anywhere from 2,700k to 3,000k to keep the light warm but bright.
Window treatments can enhance a room, too; Schaffer says they’re often hung too low and close to windows, blocking all that natural light.
“It is amazing what a drastic difference
it can make when removing old window treatments. Rooms instantly feel brighter and updated,” Schaffer says.
Furniture is a multipurpose element. Layering design styles with vintage and modern furniture adds interest, depth and a broader appeal. Feel free to mix it up. “Try mixing patterns and adding a punch of color. This makes your space unique,” Arcone says.
Lighter shades and fabrics can reflect the warmer temperatures and longer days.
“This is when we often switch out heavy velvet pillows and faux fur throws with fun patterned pillows and light cotton blankets,” Schaffer says.
Adding a pretty vase with flowers, new pillows or a vintage coffee table book can all garner attention.
“Even switching out small things like your dinner napkins with something a little springier can make such a difference,” Schaffer says.
“Fresh flowers. Plants are still huge. Pillows. I think pillows should change seasonally. It’s the easiest way to introduce a new color,” Myers says.
Add other pops of color or patterns using rugs, linens or artwork — anything you have a personal connection with.
“Don’t shy away from bringing out special items,” Arcone says. “Enjoy what you have.” NH
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You have spent most of your adult life creating wealth and assets for you and your family. If you are like most people, you probably believe that your final wishes will be carried out without much difficulty. Those who fail to manage their estates and create rock solid are leaving themselves wide open to a plethora of troubles that will make it very difficult for your loved ones and others to receive what you intended. We reached out to four of New Hampshire’s most prestigious law firms to learn more about wills and estate planning and why they are critical to protecting your assets.
QWhen do I need an estate plan and what should I consider when making one?
AThe first part is simple; you need an estate plan now. Many people put off doing estate planning because they are young, busy with kids, busy with work, etc. Unfortunately, no matter how young, involved with kids or hardworking you may be, you do not know when you will be caught in an emergency (i.e., car accident, emergency surgery, etc.) or pass away. Because you cannot know those things, doing your estate planning now, when there is no emergency and you can think clearly about potential problems, is the best time. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Estate planning does not have to be complicated either. Consider and decide who will take care of your children (if they are minors or have special needs), who will take care of you (if you are incapacitated), and who will make sure your assets get to your loved ones after
QWhat advice do you have for couples with blended families who are trying to find an equitable way to divide assets?
AAs we creep further into the 21st century, blended families are more common, and each exists on its own terms and with its own form and function. Couples leading these blended families may find themselves torn between their current spouse/partner and their children from previous relationships, which can cause tension and hesitation in making final plans. Couples should be honest with each other and with their attorney and financial advisor. How does each person in the couple feel about where they want their assets to go after they pass? Does one person want a certain amount to be set aside for the surviving spouse, while the remainder goes to his/her children? Or does one person want the surviving spouse/ partner to have full access to remaining assets, and only when the surviving spouse/partner passes would any remaining assets go to children? What about if one spouse/ partner has children from a previous relationship, and the other spouse/partner has no children? What if the
you are gone. Your answers to those questions become documents that help ensure your wishes are honored and your loved ones provided for. Preventative estate planning now helps avoid catastrophes later on.
— Richard J. Schoepke Devine Millimet – Of Counselcouple has children together and also individually from previous relationships? Unless both partners are on the same page with each other, an estate planning attorney and/or financial advisor can’t hope to put together a successful plan for the couple moving forward, and it is likely that each spouse/partner will need to get their own individual attorney and/or financial advisor. Have a discussion with your children. Depending on the relationships with the children, whether said children are from both spouses/partners, or from previous relationships, it may be recommended to have a conversation about what your plan may be. This may help clear up any confusion among the children and/or other beneficiaries, and it may help create new ideas that you have not yet thought of. However, you are under no obligation to discuss any of your estate planning with your children, and if you are uncomfortable with it, for whatever reason, it may not be the right option for you.
Consider having separate revocable trusts, which are a great estate planning tool. They can help avoid the cost and time of probate and also provide privacy. If you have a blended family, a revocable trust can also allow each spouse/partner the opportunity to decide what to do with their individual assets. At the same time, two revocable trusts can each own a half interest in an asset, such as real estate, so the couple doesn’t necessarily need to “separate” all of their assets, but rather clarify their ownership interest.
Stephanie Thomson Partner, Estate Planning, Upton & HatfieldQWhat Medicaid planning tools need to be looked at before using an irrevocable trust?
ATools may include purchasing long term care insurance, irrevocably prepaying funerals, paying off mortgages on principal residences, making major repairs to the principal residence, purchasing a larger or more accessible home for the community spouse, transferring the home to a minor or disabled or blind or caregiver child, renting out a home to qualify for a lower reimbursement rate, purchasing exempt items (such as clothing, furnishings and a new vehicle), investing money in a child’s home and living with that child for 2 years, purchasing a single pay immediate annuity (SPIA), establishing a family limited partnership/limited liability company, etc. This is often not enough, however, to bring the applicant within the asset limit required to qualify for Medicaid.
QWhat should a good estate plan consist of?
AAs an attorney, I am often asked what a good, thorough and comprehensive estate plan should include. It should include the following:
1. Having guardians in place for your minor children or disabled adult children;
2. Making sure that if you become mentally disabled and cannot make decisions for yourself, the people you select can legally make medical, end of life and financial decisions on your behalf;
3. Making sure that when you pass, your estate can avoid the expense, delay and hassle of probate while keeping the identity of your assets private (and while protecting inheritances against lawsuits, divorces, etc.);
4. Eliminating or reducing estate taxes;
5. Planning for the potential costs of long-term care;
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March 9
On Tap for CASA > At this fundraiser for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of New Hampshire, participants aim to keep their teams’ bar stools occupied for 10 hours without abandoning the post while competing in a variety of fun competitions to gain points, including trivia, stein hoisting and more. Come for the cause, stay for the friendly competition. All participant spots will likely be filled by early March, but interested persons can donate and drop by the event for music, raffles and libations offered throughout the 10-hour event. All proceeds go toward recruitment and training of CASA volunteer advocates — ordinary men and women advocating for abused or neglected children in New Hampshire’s court system. This event begins at noon, at New England’s Tap House Grille, 1292 Hooksett Road, Hooksett. casanh.org/on-tap-for-casa
March 2- 3
New Hampshire State Home Show > Produced by the professionals at the New Hampshire Home Builders Association, this is the one show of the year to attend and interact with builders, remodelers, decorators, landscapers and all types of home-solutions providers. The latest in home-related products and services will be showcased — everything from air quality to mortgages, hot tubs to custom home builders, and custom closets to fabulous kitchens and baths. This year’s event will feature over 200 exhibitors covering all aspects of the home-building and remodeling industry, plus items in the “Made in New England” and “Beer and Wine Garden” areas. Do you have an antique you’ve always wondered about? Bring it to the NH State Home Show to have it professionally appraised! $8.50. Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., DoubleTree by Hilton, 700 Elm St., Manchester. (603) 228-0351; nhstatehomeshow.com
March 10
Battle of the Badges > The annual Battle of the Badges Hockey Championship brings together firefighters, first responders and police officers in an incredible competition! Teams battle it out for the trophy and in fundraising for the kids and families of Dartmouth Health and CHaD. Battle of the Badges Hockey proceeds are used to help kids with critical services such as support when they are in pediatric intensive care and management of chronic illnesses, as well as patient and family support services. $16-$20, 1 p.m. SNHU Arena, 555 Elm St., Manchester. (603) 644-5000; snhuarena.com
March 10
St. Patty’s Day 5k and 10k > With a common start and finish for both the 5K and 10K distances, this Irish-themed course is flat and fast. The 5K follows one clockwise lap within the Pease Development Authority, while the 10K races two laps
with a quick out-and-back on Rye Street during the second loop. $10-$40. 10 a.m., Pease Development Authority, 200 International Drive, Portsmouth; runreg.com
March 16-17
New Hampshire Maple Weekend > March is Maple Month in New Hampshire, marking peak maple syrup production season when over 90 Granite State sugarhouses boil down sap to the beloved delicacy. As part of Maple Month, an abundance of the state’s sugarhouses will open their doors for a weekend of celebrating all things maple, with everything from free tours and samples, to horse-drawn rides, sugar on snow, pancake breakfasts and more. Visit New Hampshire’s Maple Producers Association Inc.’s website for an up-to-date directory of participating sugarhouses. (603) 833-2347; nhmapleproducers.com
March 29
Waypoint Sleepout > Spend a night out in the cold in solidarity with youth enduring homelessness in New Hampshire. This year is the 10th annual SleepOut, and Waypoint is hoping for a record turnout to help end youth homelessness in New Hampshire. Like last year, this will be a hybrid event, which means participants can sleep out (as a “Sleeper”) in their own backyard or a place of their choosing, or at one of the designated group sites in Manchester (464 Chestnut St.) and Rochester (3 Wallace St.). No matter how participants choose to get involved, their objective is to raise as much money and awareness as they can. SleepOut 2024 will help Waypoint quell the suffering of youth, advocate for change at the legislative level and support Waypoint’s expanded services, including an emergency overnight shelter, to help transform thousands of young lives. Register or donate on Waypoint’s website. (603) 518-4000; waypointnh.org
March 30
’80s Day > Your favorite day at Loon Mountain is back. ‘80s Day is a complete all-mountain throwback party. Drum up your best outfit, bump springtime moguls, carve plush corduroy and cap off the day with an outdoor concert. Loon will be operating shuttles for ’80s Day, operating on a loop around town stopping at locations listed on their website. Prices vary. All day, Loon Mountain, 60 Loon Mountain Road, Lincoln. (800) 229-5666; loonmtn.com
April 6
Exeter Lit Fest > Calling all bibliophiles, this event is for you. Start the day with a kick-off party, followed by a daylong schedule of events on Saturday,
including keynote speakers, book launches, author talks, children’s programming, art exhibits and more all around downtown. LitFest concludes with a gala poetry reading at the Word Barn. Free, noon to 5 p.m. Downtown Exeter; exeterlitfest.com
April 6
Ancient Aliens Live > Project Earth is an experiential extension of Ancient Aliens that explores the theory that extraterrestrials have visited Earth for millions of years. The 90-minute live experience celebrates the long-running program Ancient Aliens on The History Channel and features leading Ancient Astronaut theorist Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, investigative mythologist William Henry, UFO investigator Nick Pope, and real-life Indiana Jones, David Childress, as they discuss thought-provoking extraterrestrial theories on fan-favorite topics from Ancient Egypt to the moon, paving the long road to Disclosure. $67, 7:30 p.m., The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth. (603) 436-2400; themusichall.org
April 8
Solar Eclipse > On April 8, a total solar eclipse will darken New Hampshire’s skies in one of nature’s most awe-inspiring shows. For 3 minutes and 15 seconds, skies will dim, temperatures will drop, and the country will pause to watch as the moon passes over the light of the sun, completely blocking its light. Northern New Hampshire will be in the eclipse’s path of totality, which offers viewers the most dramatic view of the eclipse. An influx of visitors will travel to the state in the hopes of getting this once-in-a-lifetime view of the sky. The last time New Hampshire was in the direct path of a solar eclipse was in 1959, and the next won’t be until 2079. Make sure you plan ahead for your trip up North! visitnh.gov
April 13
Popovich Comedy Pet Theater > The Popovich Comedy Pet Theater is entertainment for the whole family, featuring the comedy and juggling skills of Ukrainian circus performer Gregory Popovich and the extraordinary talents of his performing pets. His entourage consists of world-class jugglers, Diamond the Shetland Pony and over 30 performing pets, including house cats and
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geese, white doves and parrots. $53.75, 3 p.m.,
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For years, we’ve accepted the statement, “You are what you eat.” It turns out when you eat could have as significant an impact on your waistline. Some people can enjoy their favorite foods, if they don’t graze into the wee hours, by embracing intermittent fasting. For example, by keeping their eating within a six- or eight-hour time frame, they’re able to shed pounds without feeling deprived.
Popular diet programs such as Weight Watchers and Noom advertise their intermittent fasting plans, and many online wellness providers offer “quizzes” to help people determine what type of fasting plan they should follow. The International Food Information Council (IFIC) recently reported that intermittent fasting is more popular than a ketogenic (low-carb) or high-fat diet. The organization’s survey showed that about 10 percent of American adults use intermittent fasting as a diet. But many wonder, can it work for them?
Conventional math tells us that our weight is determined by the total number of calories we consume and burn, whether we consume our calories in one meal or throughout the day. But that’s not necessarily true, according to Dr. Robert Catania, director of metabolic and bariatric surgery at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center and director of Southern New Hampshire Weight Management in Nashua. Intermittent fasting can yield different results than conventional calorie restriction, he says. When you fast, you quickly use up glycogen stores or stored carbohydrates, forcing your body to tap into its fat stores for energy.
“One of the theories behind why intermittent fasting works is because you’re turning on your fat metabolism more often. You make less insulin and promote less energy storage and more energy burning,” Catania says.
When your body switches to fat-burning, the calories you take in becomes less important.
“You can actually eat about the same
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number of calories, but if you eat them at a different time of the day or on a different number of days of the week, it seems to have a benefit,” Catania says.
If you think you’ll be able to eat five Big Macs five days a week, fast for two days, and lose weight, you might be disappointed. It’s still important to pay attention to the quality of your diet, which means cutting out processed carbohydrates and getting enough fruit and vegetables. However, you can eat more of your favorite foods instead of measuring your portions.
“Intermittent fasting is a good place to start because people may not be able to commit to buying all fresh foods and vegetables, but they may be able to say, ‘you know what, I’ll stop eating after 6 p.m. and I won’t eat until the morning,’ ” he says. “The nice thing about intermittent fasting is that
you don’t have to eat tiny portions.”
Drinking more water can also help you feel fuller and speed up your metabolism.
The type of intermittent eating plan you should follow has nothing to do with your blood type, age or body type. Many commercial diet plans and theories swear by the 18:6 program, where you restrict your eating window to six hours between noon and 6 p.m. Others suggest sticking to an eight-hour window. The plan you should try should be the plan that fits into your lifestyle, Catania says.
“You could come home and finish your last meal by 6 p.m., but many of my patients work second shift or multiple jobs. They may leave at 6 a.m. and return at 8 p.m. So for them, it might be easier to do a liquid fast or only one meal per day every third day,” he says.
Fasting isn’t safe for everybody
Waiting too long between meals can do more than make you “hangry” if you live with diabetes or other health conditions. Those who take sulfonylureas could experience hypoglycemia if their blood sugar levels get too low. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should also avoid intermittent fasting.
In some cases, calorie restriction can cause people to binge. You probably won’t achieve your weight loss goals if you overeat during your eating window. If you’re unsure if it’s right for you, discuss the benefits of intermittent fasting with your health care provider.
Results may vary
The intermittent fasting plan that ultimately works for your partner or co-worker might not work for you, even if you’re eating high-quality foods and adhering to your eating window. Catania says that some of his patients successfully lose weight through intermittent fasting and others do not.
“In my experience, men tend to do better with intermittent fasting than women,” he says. “I can’t tell you why biologically, but
many guys come and say that all they did was change what time they ate and lost weight.”
In some cases, intermittent fasting does not help a patient lose weight, and while frustrating, that does not mean that the patient should lose hope.
“There are people who legitimately will do everything that we tell them to do and will not see any weight loss from this, and that’s really frustrating for people,” Catania says. “I talk to my patients about medications we can put them on. I let them know if it doesn’t work, we can try a different technique.”
Long-term success or short-term fix? Because the reasons for an individual’s obesity diagnosis vary greatly, it’s unknown whether intermittent fasting will work for you in the long run — even if you’ve achieved a degree of success following it, says Dr. Hany Takla, bariatric surgeon and chair of the Department of Surgery at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital.
“We don’t know what happens if you aren’t giving your body what it needs and what the long-term effect of that is on your
body,” he says. “Over time, intermittent fasting might not be as effective for you as when you first started. Your body has a defense mechanism against being deprived metabolically and physiologically.”
In other words, your body can acclimate to intermittent fasting, like it does if you stay on the same low-calorie diet or exercise program for too long. Or, if you discontinue fasting, you could experience the same “yo-yo” weight gain effect you might have experienced on previous diets.
For individuals who have a body mass index (BMI) over 35 with comorbidities such as diabetes or heart disease, or those who have a BMI of 40, surgery might provide more sustainable results.
“Bariatric surgery has been around since the 1960s, and people who’ve had gastric bypass have achieved great long-term success,” Takla says. “I tell my patients, when you’re at a certain BMI and have medical issues, these diets and medications work, but they are not as effective as surgery, and in the long term, they are not as sustainable. When they ask me about diets, I tell them to try it, but at a certain body mass index, dieting is not as effective as people think.” NH
From our house, wedged between woods and wetlands, we don’t see much sky. Too many trees close together. Except in midwinter, when the leaves go. On a clear winter’s night, we can see the stars overhead and, sometimes, the moon across the swamp. Not exactly a vista, but enough to make us feel small, enough to fill us with wonder at the vastness of the universe.
New Hampshire is not Big Sky Country, but it’s no slouch when it comes to stargazing. In fact, one of our own led the way into the vastness. In 1961, Derry native Alan Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 beyond the pull of Earth’s gravity to become the first American in space! The trip was short: 116 miles up then straight home, no dilly-dally, 15 minutes from launch to splashdown. History was made. The nation cheered! New Hampshire nodded modestly: “Ayuh, that’s our boy.”
Ten years later, Shepard walked on the moon. It takes a lot to excite a Yankee, but the man walked on the moon! Shepard’s accomplishments excited Ted Asselin of Warren, who hatched an idea that seemed both whimsical and impractical. But with ingenuity, stick-to-itiveness and support from family, friends and the community
(most of it), he followed through.
Have you been to Warren?
If so, you will have noticed a pointytopped metal object smack in the middle of the village, bright white with black trim and with “USA” in red lettering. More than 70 feet tall, it towers over the gazebo and is slightly taller than the church steeple. It is a rocket — a genuine Redstone Jupiter-C rocket, just like the one that propelled Shepard into space in 1961.
What the heck?
Ted Asselin first laid eyes on Redstones while stationed at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. Originally built to carry warheads, some — like Shepard’s — were repurposed for the space program. With a shelf life of five years, the old ones ended up at the arsenal — doing nothing, with nowhere to go.
Asselin thought a Redstone would be a fine way to honor New Hampshire’s first astronaut. And why not plunk it in Warren, as good a place as any?
Town officials agreed, so long as it didn’t cost taxpayers anything. Asselin agreed to pay for transport. The Army agreed to let a Redstone go. For free! Asselin and a couple of buddies borrowed a tractor-trailer and drove south to fetch it.
The 1,300-mile return trip was chal-
lenging. Asselin and crew got lost a few times. Police frequently pulled them over to ask “What is that?” In Ohio, sticklahs levied a hefty fine for transporting a missile without a permit. Eventually, Asselin, his crew and the missile made it to Concord, where the truck broke down on Main Street and had to be towed to the statehouse for a reception with Gov. Walter Peterson and other dignitaries.
Meanwhile in Warren, word came in that the missile would soon be crossing the town line, so a welcoming committee jumped into their vehicles and raced to meet it and escort it home. Unfortunately, the “missile” turned out to be a pumper truck from Wentworth.
It was then, Asselin later wrote, “I knew ... I had indeed been correct in bringing America’s space program a little closer to Warren!”
Ted Asselin died on June 19, 2013, age 81, fondly remembered for his many accomplishments, including the unlikely rehoming of a Redstone Rocket in Warren, New Hampshire. “Ayuh,” we say modestly, “that’s our boy.”
The Warren Historical Society’s display of space memorabilia includes a letter from Alan Shepard. NH
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