Dr. Lauren Gilstrap, a cardiologist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, USA, died suddenly at the age of 38, but the official cause of death has not been released, according to Sage’s Newsletter blog.
Lauren Gilstrap, a cardiologist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, died Oct. 21, College President Phil Hanlon announced Thursday.
Gilstrap was also a professor at the Geisel School of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Gilstrap joined the heart and vascular center at DHMC in 2018 and became chief of the advanced cardiology program for heart disease and transplantation in 2021, according to his obituary.
Gilstrap worked to improve the quality of clinical care for people with heart failure. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 as a Truman Scholar before attending Harvard Medical School.
Gilstrap completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, while also earning a master’s degree at Harvard’s School of Public Health.
According to his obituary, Gilstrap was a „person of deep faith” and valued his children „above all else.”
