The Bowler-Bartlett Foundation 2018 Auction

The Foundation is raising funds to support the objectives of increasing physician leadership, providing free Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) waiver courses, and to promoting physician wellness across the Granite State.

The Bowler-Bartlett Foundation is the charitable, educational and scientific 501(c)3 organization of the New Hampshire Medical Society, whose mission is to advance the practice of medicine, enhance the quality of medical care, and better the health of New Hampshire citizens, as well as preserve and promote the history of medicine in the Granite State.

History and Organizational Structure
The Bowler-Bartlett Foundation is a 501(c)(3) affiliate corporation to support the charitable, educational and scientific purposes and functions of the New Hampshire Medical Society that is named after two prominent Granite State physicians – John Bowler, MD and Josiah Bartlett, MD.

The origins of the Foundation were established in 1838 by Josiah Barlett II, MD (Member of Congress and New Hampshire Senate President) on behalf of his father, Granite State revolutionary war patriot, the founder of the Medical Society, and the state’s first elected Governor – Josiah Barlett, MD. The portraits of both physicians hang in the Executive Council Chambers of the New Hampshire State House.

The Foundation was more recently reorganized in 1974 in the name of John P. Bowler, MD who upon returning to his hometown of Hanover from the Mayo Clinic in 1926 founded the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic (serving as its president until retiring in 1960), while also serving as the Dean of Dartmouth Medical School from 1927-1945. In the 1960s, Dr. Bowler then served in the NH General Court as chair of the House Public Health Committee and as a member of the Executive Council.

Recent projects have included the New Hampshire Physician Leadership Institute, MAT waiver courses for over 700 physicians, PAs and APRNs for the treatment of opioid use disorders, and facilitating public health outreach efforts on such topics as vaping, health equity, tick-borne diseases, as well as childhood and COVID-19 immunizations.

The final section of the auction will be a live silent auction at the dinner of the NH Medical Society meeting at the Wentworth by the Sea in New Castle on November 10th. With proxy bidding you may set an upper limit which could still be the highest bid.