Prominent health policy researcher resigns from Dartmouth over plagiarism dispute
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, one of the country’s top health care policy scholars, has resigned from his faculty position at Dartmouth College, after an investigation by the school concluded that he had committed research misconduct.
“I am saddened to say that I am resigning from Dartmouth,” Welch wrote in an email to colleagues Thursday. “I feel that I can no longer participate in the research misconduct process against me — as I fear my participation only serves to validate it.”
STAT and Retraction Watch last month that an internal Dartmouth investigation found that Welch published by the New England Journal of Medicine. The paper concerned how breast cancer screening led to the overdiagnosis of tumors and unnecessary treatments.
