Louis A. Kazal, Jr., M.D.

Louis A. Kazal, Jr., M.D., is Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Director of Integrative Medicine, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, staff physician, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, and Medical Director of the Integrative Medicine Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Lebanon’s Primacy Care Clinic. Dr. Kazal is a founding member of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s integrative health initiative. His current clinical and academic focus on the benefits of blending Primary Care and Integrative Medicine. He has served in various leadership roles prior to Dartmouth, including Hospital Chief of Staff, Medical Director, and Chief Medical Officer, and at Dartmouth, Medical Director of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Community Health Center, Section Chief of Family Medicine, Chief Clinical Office of the Department of Community and Family Medicine, and Site-Leader for Family Medicine in the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Primary Care Clinic at Heater Road. Dr. Kazal is also an Adjunct Professor at Southern California University of Health Sciences.
• 2001-2 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the Institute of Medicine and Legislative Fellow in the U.S Senate, Washington, D.C.
• 2000 Arizona Family Physician of the Year, 2001 Finalist, American Academy of Family Physicians Family Physician of the Year, 2001 AAFP Public Health Award, The Leonard D. Moise Award for Excellence in Teaching, Baylor College of Medicine, President of the New Hampshire Academy of Family Physicians (2008-11), 2014 Inductee, Thomas P. Almy Chapter of the Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society, Arnold P. Gold Foundation
• Three 2-year terms as legislatively-appointed member of the Green Mountain Care Board, Vermont
• Author of legislative bill(s) (subsequently enacted) that created reimbursement by private payers for telemedicine services in New Hampshire, Federal law incorporating and funding the use of telemedicine in emergency preparedness and response to bioterrorism post 911, Federal law expanding the available pool of foreign physicians available in U.S. physician shortage areas, and Federal law establishing an internet-based multi-tribe diabetes management demonstration project by the Department of Defense
• Founder and Faculty Advisor, State-Based Health Policy and Advocacy Elective for 1st and 2nd year medical students at Geisel School of Medicine, 2008-present
• Member of the New Hampshire Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors 2002 to present; President of the NHAFP 2008 to 2011; Delegate seated at the AAFP Congress of Delegates (COD) representing the NHAFP since 2012; author of multiple resolutions adopted by the COD that determine the work of the AAFP’s BOD
• Recipient of 30 grants and philanthropic awards for practice-based research and new clinical program development
• Author on 24 professional communications (published abstracts, letters, monographs, and book reviews), 18 poster presentations, 21 original peer-reviewed articles, and 7 book chapters; 68 invited and national presentations
• Started solo a family practice (remains viable today) in Wyoming. On Navajo Reservation, created and managed successful de novo clinical programs and services in telemedicine, general surgery, CT-radiology, echocardiography, bedside trauma and emergency room ultrasound, exercise treadmill testing, upper endoscopy, carotid ultrasound, and loop elecrosurgery; established and ran medical specialty volunteer programs. Some of this work was featured in JAMA Medical News and Perspectives. Established the Medical Home concept at D-H and the family medicine clinic was one of the original TransforMed sites. Developed the model for and ran the first reimbursable group medical visits at D-H. Introduced measuring and monitoring quality metrics prior to the medical home concept. Founder and started the initial telemedicine program at D-H. Initiated Suboxone therapy in Family Medicine, bedside ultrasound, and integrative medicine at D-H. Founder and Director of the Primary Spine Care Program and the Chiropractic Research Fellowship at Dartmouth.
Dr. Kazal holds a B.S. degree from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania and a M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He completed residency in Family Practice at McKay-Dee Hospital Center, Ogden, Utah, University of Utah School of Medicine and an Academic Fellowship in Research and Teaching, Department of Family Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Medical Acupuncturist, Board-Certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine, and certified in Functional Medicine.