John Sanders

John is Dartmouth Class of 1964. He practiced cardiac surgery at Northwestern University Medical School and DHMC for 40 years. This is John’s twenty-fourth year as co-leader of “Great Decisions.”

Great Decisions (Spring Term 2024)

Participant Testimonials:

This was the single most rewarding class that I have taken. The effort to put this together with the speakers brought in was outstanding. This is a course I look forward to taking in 2025 as they have really did a marvelous job. Bravo to both!!!

The course was excellent, focusing on some of the most important issues facing us in the troubled world today.

As always, I loved this Osher course. Osher provides an important and valuable resource for our community to learn more about ourselves and our world and to share our thoughts with one another.

Osher at Northern Stage: Constellations (Winter Term 2024)

Participant Testimonials:

It was so engaging to be able to get the perspectives of the play from the actors and director. Learning about what thought processes went into how to approach the roles as well as how to design and implement the set, added a much richer understanding and appreciation once we saw the play!

The Study Leaders provided a critical background framework for those new to the complex play which resulted in a much richer understanding of the play.

Great Decisions (Spring Term 2023)

Participant Testimonials:

A very well-organized class with very good guest speakers and lively class discussion. Each topic module was comprehensive and I learned at lot.

Both instructors and our zoom coordinator were really very good. Kudos for finding such a fine group of speakers. The zoom and internal audience went off very well.

Great Decisions (Spring Term 2022)

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Don’t stop offering this exceptional course!

Speakers were outstanding and the hiccups associated with Zoom were successfully overcome.

Between the magazine and top notch speakers, the material is well covered, interesting, and thought provoking.

Great Decisions (Spring Term 2021)

Participant Testimonials:

Great Decisions is offered many places. Ours through OSHER with John and Jim completely surpasses any others I have heard of. The speakers they get week in and week out are phenomenal. I’ve taken the course each year it has been offered and it never ceases to be first rate.

Great Decisions (Spring Term 2020)

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The speakers were very knowledgeable. The discussions were lively. The participants asked pertinent questions and the speakers were able to answer them well.

Great Decisions (Spring Term 2019)

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Leaders were very well prepared and ran the course well; topics were wide ranging and intellectually challenging.

Great course. This is the star of all Osher courses! The leaders get interesting, knowledgeable people to present the lively current issues presented by the Foreign Policy Ass'n.