John H. Wasson is a professor of community and family medicine and of medicine, as well as the Herman O. West Professor of Geriatrics at Dartmouth Medical School. He is also director of the Center for Aging and research director of the Dartmouth–Northern New England Primary Care Research Network. Dr. Wasson's interests are in geriatrics, clinical epidemiology, quality improvement of ambulatory care, management of prostate disease, and community-based primary care research.