DARTMOUTH - Key Persons
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- Managing Director of the Institute 's Global Health Care Delivery Science Program
Al Mulley is the managing director of the Institute's Global Health Care Delivery Science Program. The program is dedicated to forging partnerships around the world to build the capabilities essential to achieving sustainable health care economies. Prior to his appointment at Dartmouth, he was at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he served as chief of general medicine for nearly three decades. In the past, his clinical training and research interests have spanned from intensive medical care to the integration of primary care and population health, always with a focus on the quality of decisions made, whether it's from the frontlines of care to the leadership level of health systems. Mulley is the founding editor of the text, Primary Care Medicine, with the eighth addition currently in preparation. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves as a visiting professor and/or Fellow in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom and China.
He holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an MPP from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
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- Associate Director, PhD Program
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- Research Project Director
Alice joined The Dartmouth Institute's coproduction team in June of 2018 as a research project coordinator for IBD Qorus. She became interested in coproduction after hearing Dr. Stephen Bartels speak about his work at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Her interests are in efficiency and impact of care, equity in access to high-quality, high-value care, and learning as much as possible from a global examination of health care systems.
Alice is new to the Upper Valley, having lived most of her life in Philadelphia and the past four years in Louisville, Kentucky. She looks forward to finding ways to become involved in the health of her immediate community as well as working to help The Dartmouth Institute and its partners move our evolving healthcare system forward in an equitable way.
Alice received her BA from New York University and her MPH from the University of Louisville.
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- Associate Director of Admissions
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- Program Manager, Levy Serious Illness Incubator
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- Director
- Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy
- Director the Dartmouth Institute
Amber E. Barnato is the Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. She is a physician health services researcher with dual clinical training in preventive medicine and public health and in hospice and palliative medicine. Her research focuses on variation in end-of-life intensive care unit (ICU) and life-sustaining treatment use.
Barnato's research is the source of the frequently cited statistic that "one in five Americans will die with ICU services" and the key finding that Black patients' higher use of intensive care at the end of life is largely attributable to their use of higher-intensity hospitals. Her work has focused both on refining measures of hospital end-of-life treatment intensity and exploring the mechanisms underlying variations in these measures using mixed qualitative and quantitative approaches, including participant observation, simulation, and mental-models interviewing. This research has led to a conceptual model regarding the interplay among provider social norms, patient and family expectations, and physician decision making heuristics, which she summarized in an invited overview in Health Affairs.
More recently she has begun developing and testing interventions to modify patient and provider behavior related to advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making using behavioral decision theory with the goal of better aligning patient values with medical decisions and reducing the burden of surrogate decision making. Visit the Apple store to download her most recent video game intervention, Hopewell Hospitalist, and try your hand at solving the mystery of Andy's grandfather's disappearance while also changing the way you think about advance care planning.
In 2021, Barnato was appointed as the Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) and named the John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Under her leadership, TDI will deepen its focus on equity in healthcare delivery and advancing an organizational culture that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. She was previously the inaugural Susan J. and Richard M. Levy 1960 Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery at TDI. Before that, she was associate professor of medicine, clinical and translational science, and health policy and management, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health. Throughout her career she has published more than 170 research articles, advised more than 60 medical students committed to clinical research careers, and mentored eight faculty through their transition to independence.
Barnato earned a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MD from Harvard Medical School, an MPH from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MS from Stanford University.
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- Operations Assistant
- Operations Assistant the Dartmouth Institut
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- Adjunct Instructor
- Quality Improvement Scientist
Andrew R. Bohm is an epidemiologist and quality improvement scientist with a longstanding interest in emergency and cardiovascular medicine, biostatistics, and implementation science. His work focuses on cardiovascular outcome epidemiology and related policy in the pre-hospital, Emergency Medical Service setting. This research developed out of his prior experience as an Emergency Medical Technician in New York City and the surrounding area for 9 years. Dr. Bohm's work in the area continues, but his current work also includes statistical methods for quality improvement modeling, implementation science, and allied health services research. He recently served as a biostatistician on the Covid-19 research team for the largest healthcare provider in New York, Northwell Health.
Bohm earned two BS degrees from Stony Brook University, one in Health Science, and one in Sociology; an MS from Dartmouth College in Healthcare Research; and a Ph.D. from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Bohm was licensed and certified EMT through the State University of New York.
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- Research Programmer / Analyst
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- Decision Scientist and Health Services Researcher
Anna Tosteson is the James J. Carroll Professor of Oncology and the Associate Director for Population Sciences at the Dartmouth Cancer Center. She is one of three Principal Investigators for SYNERGY, Dartmouth's Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She previously served as the Interim Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.
Tosteson is a decision scientist and health services researcher who studies how the diffusion of innovations in health care are changing health, costs, and quality of care. Through the use of diverse data sources including registries, clinical and epidemiological studies, and administrative claims data, she seeks insights into the long-term clinical and economic effects of alternative approaches to health care delivery with a focus on cancer screening and women's health.
Tosteson is internationally recognized for demonstrating osteoporosis's direct and indirect economic and societal costs on the health care system, workforce productivity, and quality of life. Her work on the surgeon general's report, Bone Health and Osteoporosis, contributed to the adoption of prevention, screening, and treatment for that disease.
Tosteson earned a ScD in biostatistics (health decision science) an MS in biostatistics from Harvard University, and a BS in statistics and biometry from Cornell University.
In July 2017, Dr. Tosteson and her Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium colleagues received a $17 million 5-year grant renewal from the National Cancer Institute to study the effectiveness of tailored breast cancer screening. This work complements their ongoing Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute study of screening and diagnostic imaging by extent of breast density.
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- Research Programmer / Analyst II
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- Research and Evaluation Associate
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- Associate Professor
- Healthcare Improvement and Implementation Scientist
Brant Oliver is a healthcare improvement and implementation scientist, educator, and ANCC board-certified family and psychiatric nurse practitioner (FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC). Dr. Oliver's work focuses on applied healthcare improvement implementation science research with a focus on "3C" (complex, costly, and chronic) health conditions (including multiple sclerosis (MS), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Cystic Fibrosis (CF), and others), Coproduction, Learning Health Systems (LHS), and Shared Decision Making (SDM). He has been in clinical practice since 2003, working primarily as a MS specialist and neurobehavioral nurse practitioner. In 2020, he founded the Chronic Health Improvement Research Program (CHIRP), which applies improvement science research to optimize care, experience, and outcomes for people with "3C" conditions. In 2021, he was appointed as interim Associate Chief Quality Officer for Patient Experience at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and in 2022 was named system Vice President for Care Experience for the Dartmouth Health system. Dr. Oliver is the 2022 recipient of the QSEN Institute Researcher of the Year award and the 2023 recipient of the Batalden Award from the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs, both recognizing career achievements in healthcare improvement, improvement science, and related teaching, research, and leadership.
Dr. Oliver holds faculty appointments at Dartmouth, the Department of Veterans Affairs VA National Quality Scholars (VAQS) and Health Professions Education, Evaluation, and Research (HPEER) fellowship programs, the Jefferson College of Population Health in Philadelphia, the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing in Boston, and the Jonkoping University School of Health and Social Welfare in Sweden. He is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and experienced in Clinical Microsystems and IHI Model for Improvement approaches, including IHI Breakthrough Series (BTS) collaboratives, and has specific expertise in healthcare improvement measurement and analytics. He teaches graduate students, residents, and post-doctoral fellows in improvement science, methodology, measurement, and analytics.
Dr. Oliver was principal investigator of the first multi-center improvement science research collaborative for multiple sclerosis (MS-CQI, 2017-2020), and is PI for the new Next Generation Learning Health System for Multiple Sclerosis multi-center research collaborative (Next-Gen MS, 2021- ), and is or has been an investigator, methodologist, and/or faculty in large scale improvement efforts in the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, and Australia, including the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, and the International Coproduction of Health Network (ICoHN). He was also Co-PI of the COVID Collaboration (2020-2023), a cooperative effort between TDI and East Carolina University led by Dr. Gene Nelson investigating COVID-related epidemiology and public health applications and is recently co-lead of a Levy Incubator funded innovation project with Dr. Jeffrey Parsonette at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to create a Learning Health System for Post-Acute COVID Syndrome (PACS) care (2021-22). Dr. Oliver is also PI of CO-VALUE (2019- ), an ICoHN study developing an assessment model for coproduction value creation in an international community of practice co-founded with visionary improvement scholar Dr. Paul Batalden. Most recently, he joined the executive leadership team for the Dartmouth Promise Partnership, serving as its new Executive Director. Promise is a coproduction learning health system initiative scaled to the entire Dartmouth Health system and engages simultaneously in improvement, implementation, and health services research activities. Finally, in recognition of his expertise in healthcare improvement measurement and analysis, Dr. Oliver was recently invited to serve as lead editor for a new textbook, "Practical Measurement for Improving Health and Healthcare," which was released in 2022 by Joint Commission Resources. The new textbook provides rigorous practical healthcare improvement measurement and analysis skills for busy health professions students, faculty, and health professionals.
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- Associate Professor
- Researcher
Brenda Sirovich is a general internist, researcher, and educator at The Dartmouth Institute and Geisel School of Medicine.
Practicing at the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont, Sirovich has been caring for and learning from her veteran patients for nearly 20 years, and also attends on the in-patient medicine service.
Along with Phil Goodney, she co-directs the VA Outcomes Group, a small multidisciplinary research group, where she enjoys mentoring fellows and junior faculty in many specialties. Her research examines clinical practice intensity-the tendency of clinicians to order tests, referrals, and treatments for patients, exploring both causes and consequences of different practice patterns.
Delighted to be entering her 8th year directing an intermediate level Epidemiology and Biostatistics elective in the Institute's residential MS/MPH program, From Observational Data to Valid Inference: Regression and Other Approaches, she has also been deeply involved (some might aptly say buried) in building and directing a new 2-year course sequence at Geisel. Now in its 3rd year, Patients & Populations: Improving Health & Healthcare seeks to develop in medical students the knowledge, capabilities, and motivation to allow them to make a difference on a larger scale, improving the health of communities and populations, and the effectiveness and value of health care.
Sirovich is a proud graduate of Hunter College High School (NYC). She earned a BA in applied mathematics from Harvard College, an MD from the Yale University School of Medicine, and an MS from the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth (now The Dartmouth Institute).
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- Finance
- Operations Assistant
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- Senior Administrative Assistant
- Senior Administrative Assistant / Assistant to Dr. Amber Barnato
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor the DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE
- Member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Preventive Medicine
- Public Health / Preventive Medicine Physician
Carolyn Murray is a public health/preventive medicine physician with expertise in occupational and environmental medicine. For the past five years she has directed the Community Outreach and Translation Core for the NIEHS/EPA Dartmouth Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center. Her current research is focused on the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study, which is studying the impact of environmental contaminants such as arsenic on fetal and childhood development. She is also a co-investigator in the Dartmouth Pediatric Clinical Trials Unit, part of the NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program. She has particular research interest in the intersection of health care and environmental health. Murray teaches in the hybrid online MPH program at The Dartmouth Institute. She is course director for "Introduction to Environmental Health" and co-teaches the "Determinants, Design and Data" module for the Foundations in Population Health course. As a member of the founding faculty for The Dartmouth Institute/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Leadership Preventive Medicine residency program, she has mentored dozens of residents in their public health and preventive medicine training.
Murray earned her BS and MPH from the UCLA School of Public Health and an MD from the University of Virginia. She completed a Public Health/General Preventive Medicine Residency at the University of Colorado. She is board certified in general preventive medicine/public health and occupational medicine.
Carolyn Murray is a member of the board of directors of the American Board of Preventive Medicine where she serves as Vice Chair for Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. She serves as an invited member on the NH State Health Improvement Plan Advisory Council.
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- Professor
- Professor the Dartmouth Institute
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- Research and Evaluation Associate
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- Research Administration Manager
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor the Dartmouth Institute
- Health Services Researcher
Health services researcher Christine Gunn, PhD, is an assistant professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. She also serves as the health equity liaison to the Community Outreach and Engagement Program of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
Dr. Gunn's research program is focused on risk communication, decision-making, and the utilization of evidence-based care. She has conducted a range of studies on how patients and providers negotiate the experience of being at risk for cancer-in particular, breast and prostate cancer-and its impact on the utilization of health services.
She has extensive experience in qualitative research methods, surveys, and mixed methods approaches and has a special interest in studying how health literacy affects health decision-making and behaviors. Gunn has received national attention for documenting how state-level dense breasts notification policies do not meet population literacy needs, and the impact they have on both patients and providers.
The focuses of Dr. Gunn's current research projects include: designing a tool to promote informed breast cancer screening decisions for women with limited health literacy; understanding and optimizing women's reactions to dense breast notifications; and improving equity in prostate cancer treatment.
Dr. Gunn comes to Dartmouth from Boston University, where she held dual appointments as an assistant professor in the School of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine; and in the School of Public Health, Department of Health Law, Policy and Management.
She holds service positions with several prominent organizations-including as a member of the Association of Community Cancer Center's Health Literacy and Clear Communication eLearning Advisory Committee, AcademyHealth's Education Council, and the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention, Screening, and Health Promotion Peer Review Committee. Gunn also serves on the editorial board of Behavioral Medicine.
Dr. Gunn earned Bachelor of Health Science and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Western Ontario and a PhD in health services research at Boston University.
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- Research Programmer / Analyst
- Research Programmer / Analyst II / Research Scientist
Chris Leggett is a research programmer/analyst and has been with TDI since January 2020. Since his arrival, Chris has provided programming and statistical support to a variety of Dartmouth College faculty and Dartmouth Health physicians, in addition to providing infrastructure programming support to the Data Analytic Core. He programs primarily in SAS, Stata, and R. Chris has worked extensively with Medicare claims data, and he has supplemental experience with all-payer claims data and Department of Defense TRICARE claims data. He codes primarily on Dartmouth's secure servers, but also has experience working within CMS's Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) environment. Recent research projects have focused on the effects of oral anticoagulants on patients with advanced dementia, geographic variation in pelvic organ prolapse procedures, cardiac resynchronization therapy in elderly heart failure patients, the impact of rurality on patient travel times for cancer treatment, and the effectiveness of various treatments for lower back pain. Chris was originally trained as an economist, and he was a private sector consultant prior to joining Dartmouth. He received a BA from Harvard University, and an MS and PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications are available here.
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- Research and Evaluation Associate, CPDE
Corey A. Siegel, MD, MS, is the Section Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He is a Professor of Medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Dr. Siegel received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts in 1998. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Dr. Siegel served as chief medical resident at Dartmouth from 2001-2002, where he also completed a fellowship in gastroenterology. From 2004-2005, he completed a fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Siegel's research interests include understanding risk/benefit tradeoffs in IBD, developing models to predict outcomes in Crohn's disease, creating tools to facilitate shared decision making, expanding telemedicine services to patients with IBD living in rural locations, and improving the quality of care delivered to patients with IBD. He has been funded by the NIH, AHRQ, the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, and the Helmsley Charitable Trust for this work. He has lectured nationally and internationally, and published numerous journal articles and book chapters on this and other topics in IBD. Dr. Siegel was inducted into the International Organization for the Study of IBD (IOIBD) in 2013. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire with his wife and three boys.
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- Director of Admissions and Operations, TDI Education
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- Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Clinical Practice
- Executive Director of Education at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy
Craig Westling serves as the Executive Director of Education at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, where he is responsible for strategy and operations for all graduate degree and professional education programs.
Westling is an assistant professor of health policy and clinical practice. He teaches courses on public health foundations, health policy, and ethics. His research examines the ethical conflicts and resulting moral distress created by changing reimbursement and clinical care models.
Westling previously served as managing director of professional education and outreach, which involved translating the Institute's research and ideas into practical, frontline tools and educational offerings. Before that he was the managing director of accountable care, where he co-managed the Brookings-Dartmouth ACO Learning Network and facilitated ACO pilot site implementations around the country.
Westling is actively involved in community health, serving on the board of directors for the Good Neighbor Health Clinic in White River Junction, VT, as well as advising medical groups and startup companies in the digital health field.
Westling holds a DrPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MPH from Dartmouth College, an MS in Health Administration from New England College, and a BA from Middlebury College.
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- Research Project Specialist
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- Reappointed Chair of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Dartmouth 's Geisel School of Medicine
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- Physician
- Professor
- Professor the Dartmouth Institute
Goodman directs women's health services for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Perinatal Addiction Treatment Program and was one of the first wave of advanced practice nurses in New Hampshire to become a buprenorphine prescriber. Her research and work in quality improvement focus on improving access to treatment for opioid use disorders for pregnant and parenting women through integrated delivery models. She currently leads a three-year initiative to implement best practice in the care of pregnant women with opioid use disorders through the Northern New England Perinatal Quality Improvement Network and a multi-site comparative effectiveness study comparing models of care for medication assisted treatment for pregnant women with opioid use disorders funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
David Goodman is a physician, health services researcher, and educator with a longstanding interest in the causes and consequences of health care variation. In his early years, his studies focused on the relationship of physician supply to population outcomes, and applied the findings to public policy development. More recently, his research portfolio investigates unwarranted variation in the use of neonatal intensive care.
Dr. Goodman is one of the founding investigators of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care and has led multiple Atlas projects on such topics as end-of-life cancer care, post hospital discharge care, and care for infants and children. He has served on multiple journal editorial boards, and federal and Institute of Medicine committees, including a term as the chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education. His research papers and editorials have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs, Pediatrics, and The New York Times.
He received a BA from the University of Vermont, an MD from the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, and an MS in medical care epidemiology from Dartmouth College. He served his residency in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and then practiced as a rural National Health Corps physician before joining the Dartmouth faculty.
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- Associate Program Director, Health Equity Research Pathways Programs / Senior Research Programmer Analyst Manager
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- Registrar, TDI Graduate Programs
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Adjunct Assistant Professor the Dartmouth Institute
- Health Services Researcher
Health services researcher Ellesse-Roselee Akré, PhD, MA, is an adjunct assistant professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Her primary appointment is at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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- Professor
- Professor of Medicine
- Professor the Dartmouth Institute
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- Program Improvement & Accreditation Manager
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor the Dartmouth Institute
- Associate of the Dartmouth Institute Office of Professional Education
Eric Wadsworth worked in public accounting for several years and then as CFO at Dartmouth Medical School through the '90s. After completing his PhD exploring the linkage between cost and quality in healthcare, his research interest and publications have continued to focus on cost measurement and cost management in health care. In addition to serving as an assistant professor at The Dartmouth Institute and Geisel School of Medicine, he is an adjunct faculty member at the Tuck School of Business. At Tuck, he teaches a range of business and health care finance, management, and strategy topics in both degree programs and executive education formats.
Wadsworth is also an associate of The Dartmouth Institute Office of Professional Education and Outreach where his teaching and consulting revolve around the intersection of health care management and strategic decisions with cost. Wadsworth was one of the two founding directors of the Masters of Healthcare Delivery Science (MHCDS) program at Dartmouth, and he has served as a research associate and National Forum presenter with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and in various adjunct faculty positions in the University of New Hampshire system business programs.
He earned a BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College, an MBA from the University of New Hampshire System, and a PhD in organization and management from Capella University.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor the Dartmouth Institute
Erika Moen's research program uses state-of-the-art biomedical informatics and data science methods to study variation in cancer care delivery and patient outcomes. Specific interests include evaluating dynamic national patient-sharing networks to examine variation in cancer care care coordination and diffusion of novel cancer tests and treatments. The ultimate goal of Dr. Moen's research is to contribute to efforts in streamlining high quality cancer care to optimize patient outcomes.
She holds a BA in biology from Brown University and an MS in translational science and PhD in cancer biology from the University of Chicago.
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- Research and Evaluation Associate / Research Scientist
Eugene Nelson is a professor of community and family medicine at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He serves as the director of Population Health and Measurement at The Dartmouth Institute and leads a program on new models to advance the coproduction of health care. Nelson is a national leader in health care improvement and the development and application of measures of quality, system performance, health outcomes, value, and patient perceptions. His current work is focused on using patient-centered registries to develop learning health systems capable of coproducing improved health care and innovative science. He leads a Dartmouth team that is conducting national proof of concept demonstration programs for several chronic disease populations including cystic fibrosis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and rheumatology.
In the early 1990's, Nelson and his colleagues at Dartmouth began developing clinical microsystem thinking. His work developing the "clinical value compass" and "whole system measures" to assess health care system performance has made him a well-recognized quality and value measurement expert.
He is the recipient of The Joint Commission's Ernest A. Codman award for his work on outcomes measurement in health care. Nelson has been a pioneer in bringing modern quality improvement thinking into the mainstream of health care; he helped launch the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and served as a founding board member. He has authored over 150 publications and is an author of two recent books: Quality by Design: A Clinical Microsystems Approach and Value by Design: Developing Clinical Microsystems to Achieve Organizational Excellence.
He received an AB from Dartmouth College, an MPH from Yale University, and a DSc from Harvard University.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor the Dartmouth Institute
Florian R. Schroeck is a board-certified urologist sub-specializing in urologic cancer care. His research focuses on evaluating and improving the quality of care for patients with urologic cancers. Schroeck's interest in quality of cancer care originated from the finding that patients with prostate cancer who underwent robotic versus the more traditional open surgery experienced more frequent regret of their treatment choice. Schroeck's research aims to get the right care to every cancer patient. Recently, he has combined administrative and pathology data to understand current patterns of bladder cancer surveillance care within the Department of Veterans Affairs. He has also used qualitative research methods to understand how patients perceive being "under cancer surveillance". Currently, he is leading a six site study using implementation science methods to improve bladder cancer care within the Department of Veterans Affairs. The goal is to make it easier for physicians, nurses, and other health workers to get the right care to every patient. Schroeck is associate professor of surgery and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. He has published more than 50 manuscripts and received several national research awards. He is section chief of urology at the White River Junction VA Medical Center and a core faculty member of the VA Outcomes Group.
Schroeck earned an MD from the Technische Universität München, Germany, and an MS in Healthcare Research from the University of Michigan. He completed urology residency at Duke University and a fellowship in urologic oncology and health services research at the University of Michigan.
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- Professor
- Professor the Dartmouth Institute
Honor Passow, PhD, teaches research methods, including biostatistics, epidemiology, survey research methods, and technical writing in The Dartmouth Institute's graduate programs. About half of her research has been at the Institute. Her research experience has spanned a wide array of methods, including interviews (regarding patient decision making), surveys (regarding student cheating and professional competencies among engineers), Medicare administrative data (regarding prostate cancer screening), linked data between Medicare and the Nurses' Health Study survey (regarding cognitive decline in the elderly), document review (regarding the influence of medical journals' press releases on the quality of newspaper coverage), experiments (regarding the flow of slurries under vibration), narrative literature synthesis (regarding screening mammography), and systematic literature review (regarding on-the-job competence among engineers and "exnovation", that is, how physicians reject or abandon an innovation after adopting it). She is a peer reviewer for journals that focus on the education of professionals.
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- Assistant Professor
- Researcher
- Assistant Professor the Dartmouth Institute
Inas Khayal is a highly interdisciplinary translational researcher focused on improving chronic disease health outcomes. Her work began in biomedical research within the clinic using MRI for brain tumor research. It expanded to Internet-of-Things enabled social and environmental sensing outside the clinic and within ‘real-world' living labs. Her current work addresses the reality of the multi-level interconnected systems we live in. Projects include modeling interconnected health care delivery systems and individual health outcomes applied to Medicare datasets. She also works with multiple Dartmouth-Hitchcock sites to design and implement integrated behavioral health systems within primary care.
She holds several patents and is featured in Fen Montaigne's Medicine by Design book. She has been selected as a 2017 Systems Science Scholar by Academy Health and a 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Scholar. She also serves on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College, where she teaches CS 89/189 Health Informatics.
Khayal earned a PhD in bioengineering from both the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, a BS in biomedical engineering from Boston University and completed the management of technology program from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
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- Professor
- Professor the Dartmouth Institute
O'Malley was chair of the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2008 and co-chair of the 2011 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics. He is associate editor for Statistics in Medicine and for Observational Studies. At Dartmouth, he was Director of the Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (QBS) from 2018 - 2020 and currently is Co-Director of the Ph.D. Program in Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
James O'Malley is the 2019 recipient of the ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research) Award for Excellence in Health Economics and Outcomes Research Methodology. The award is for his paper, published online in Statistics in Medicine in November 2018, which investigated the relationship between individuals' proximity to fast-food establishments and their Body Mass Index (BMI).
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- Instructor
- Instructor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice
Jared Rhoads is an Instructor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice ("TDI"). He co-directs the health policy courses in TDI's MPH program and serves as a mentor for the Integrative Learning Experience. Outside of Dartmouth, he is a Senior Affiliated Scholar with the Mercatus Center, a Washington D.C.-based public policy institute, where he conducts policy research and provides testimony to state legislators. He also runs the national debate program in economics and public policy for the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, in Plymouth, Vermont. His ongoing research interests include attitudes and discourse in health policy. Rhoads holds a BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an MS from Bentley University, and an MPH from Dartmouth.
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- Director of Operations
- Leader
Jennifer Rickards is an experienced nonprofit leader with more than 25 years of experience in organizational strategy, operations, program development, and fundraising. She joined TDI in 2022 after 15 years at the Montshire Museum of Science.
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- Senior Research Project Manager, CPDE
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- Principal
- Professor
- Professor the Dartmouth Institute
Jeremiah Brown is the principal investigator on three NIH R01 grants focusing on predictive analytics for readmission and implementation science. He leads a cardiovascular outcomes team at Dartmouth focusing on cardiovascular epidemiology, biomedical informatics research, and implementation science. He has also received funding from the American Heart Association focusing on molecular epidemiology, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) studying patient safety and acute kidney injury, and the Veterans Administration focusing on the development and evaluation of a national risk model for acute kidney injury. Dr. Brown is also the principal investigator on a five-year study focused on testing the use of a Virtual Learning Collaborative (VLC)-augmented by the novel use of Automated Surveillance Reporting (ASR) -to prevent acute kidney injurty (AKI) following cardiac catheterization. Twenty VA hospitals are participating in the nationwide trials, whose findings have potential for improving patient care and outcomes across a wide array of preventive interventions.
An active collaborator on a global scale, Brown develops guidelines for the Acute Kidney Injury Network, is a guidelines taskforce member for the International Consortium of Evidence Based Perfusion, and is a taskforce member for the Workforce on Cardiopulmonary Bypass for the Society for Thoracic Surgeons (STS) where he leads the renal workgroup. He is a member of the American Heart Association (AHA), the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and the Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group (NNE).
A Professor of Epidemiology, and Professor of Biomedical Data Science and TDI at the Geisel School of Medicine, Brown is committed to supporting student research and instruction. He and the cardiovascular outcomes team train PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, clinical residents and fellows, graduate students, medical school fellows, and undergraduate scholars through the Women in Science (WISP) program, Neukom Institute, and undergraduate advising & research (UGAR).
The author of more than 150 publications, Brown has published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal Quality and Safety, Circulation, and many others. He serves as epidemiology and statistics editor for the Journal of ExtraCorporeal Technology and a referee for more than a dozen additional medical journals. He earned a MS and PhD from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (formally the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences).
Jesse Boggis, MPH, is a PhD student and a NIH National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellow at The Dartmouth Institute. She earned her Master of Public Health degree from Boston University School of Public Health. At Dartmouth she is mentored by Dr. Lisa Marsch and contributes towards The Northeast Node of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network. She is interested in using mixed methods approaches to examine substance use, access to medication treatment for opioid use disorder, and evidence-based models of care which integrate harm reduction to reduce overdose mortality. In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, skiing, and traveling. Her full list of publications is available here: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9413-7002
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor the Dartmouth Institute
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- Emeritus Professor / Emeritus Director / Founder
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- Research Project Coordinator
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- Senior Research Administrator
Dr. Karen Huyck, MD, PhD, MPH, FACOEM is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth in the Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and a board-certified OEM physician. She is currently serving as the Medical Director for Vermont RETAIN, a project with the Vermont Department of Labor the aims to increase employment retention and decrease work disability across the state and inform national disability programs and policies. She received her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, completed her MPH in Environmental Health, and completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Environmental Molecular Epidemiology. Her clinical and research work includes management and treatment of complex work injuries, functional assessment and recovery, prevention of work disability, and gene-environment interaction in complex human disease. She is a co-founder of the New England Work Injury Collaborative and a member of the Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology (TREAT) consortium through the The National Institutes of Health Medical Rehabilitation Research Infrastructure Network (MRRIN). Prior to her position at Dartmouth, she worked in diverse OEM settings, including as an on-site physician for biotechnology companies, staff OEM physician, researcher, disability consultant, utilization reviewer, impartial medical examiner, and expert witness.
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- Instructional Design and Technology Manager
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- Senior Research Project Manager
Kathryn B. Kirkland, MD, a professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, with a secondary appointment at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, serves as chief of the section of palliative medicine. She holds the Dorothy and John J. Byrne, Jr, Distinguished Chair in Palliative Medicine. In addition to her leadership role, she is actively engaged in clinical work with patients who are facing serious illness, and in teaching medical students, residents and fellows.
Her primary scholarly interest is in the field of narrative medicine, which focuses on building capacity of clinicians to receive the stories of others, and to use them to ensure that patients receive individualized healthcare that is aligned with their values. She has received grant support from the Mellon and the Gold Foundations for work in medical humanities.
For the first 20 years of her professional career, Kirkland was an infectious disease specialist and healthcare epidemiologist at Dartmouth and at Duke. She has served as vice chair for quality in the department of medicine and as a coach and associate program director for leadership development in the innovative Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency program at Dartmouth.
Kirkland holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MD from Dartmouth Medical School.
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- Research Project Assistant
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- Director of the Master of Health Care Delivery Science
- Program Director, Master of Health Care Delivery Science
Katy Milligan has been the director of the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program at Dartmouth College since the program's founding in 2010. In this role, she has overseen all aspects of the development and administration of the MHCDS program, a collaboration between the faculties of the Tuck School of Business and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. The program is designed for executive-level leaders in health care delivery and was the first degree program in the Ivy League to use blended (online/residential) learning. Milligan is also an adjunct professor at Tuck and teaches the MHCDS Action Learning Project course. In this experiential-learning course, students work in teams to solve strategically significant real-world problems for health care client organizations. Students learn to determine the scope of a project, develop a work plan, conduct primary and secondary research, implement the project, measure its results, and create and deliver an effective presentation. She received an AB from Dartmouth College, a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Tuck.
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- Managing Editor of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
- Research Project Manager
Kristen Bronner is the managing editor of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. She has been a member of the Dartmouth Atlas project team since 1995 and has been lead editor since 2007. She edits manuscripts, designs graphics, and supervises production for all Dartmouth Atlas publications. She works with faculty investigators, as well as programmers and analysts, to improve and expand the Atlas database. She is also the webmaster and primary content developer for the Dartmouth Atlas web site, and the initial point of contact for users interested in learning more about the Dartmouth Atlas project. She earned both a BA (1991) and an MA in liberal studies (1996) from Dartmouth College.
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Research and Evaluation Associate
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- Research Project Director
As a project director, Lisa Johnson works closely with others at The Dartmouth Institute to adapt and implement a learning health system approach to several chronic disease populations with the goal of optimizing health and health care value for those patient populations. At the core of the model is the patient and clinician partnership for co-producing care. Johnson and others are working to increase involvement of patients (and parents and families) in their care, which is believed to lead to better care experiences, increased likelihood that care plans will be followed, and, ultimately, better health outcomes and value. Johnson has over 20 years of experience in the health care industry, primarily focused in the areas of clinical and population health improvement. She enjoys coaching and advising frontline teams engaged in clinical quality improvement efforts. She holds an MBA from the University of Virginia, where she also obtained her undergraduate degree.
Lisa Sharp Grady is managing the execution of the successful launch and on-going operation of The Dartmouth Institute's new undergraduate Dartmouth Health Care Foundations and Eric Eichler '57 Fellowship in Health Care Leadership. She helps create new approaches to health care education so that undergraduate students will be motivated to explore the challenges in healthcare and respond to the new demands of a potential career in healthcare. She works to ensures successful delivery of the on-campus and online programs and facilitates effective and meaningful mentoring relationships between students and faculty mentors. She is the first point of contact about the program and is active in recruiting students and building cross-campus partnerships. Lisa serves on her town's select board, where she is faced with public health issues from the perspectives of environmental health and public safety. Previously, she met the administrative needs of The Preference Laboratory at The Dartmouth Institute, served as a development assistant for the Dartmouth College Fund, and began her career at Dartmouth working as an administrative assistant in the Faculty-Employee Assistance program. Lisa also spent nine years working in financial aid at Antioch University Midwest in Yellow Springs, OH. She earned a BA in management with concentrations in marketing and international management from Antioch University Midwest. She received her Master of Public Health from Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH.
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- Research Project Director
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- Lecturer / Interim Director of Student Affairs / Director of Learning Environment
Martha Bruce is a professor of psychiatry and of community and family medicine at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. As an implementation scientist, she integrates clinical, sociological, and public health perspectives in the development of clinically relevant interventions designed to reach as many individuals in need as possible. In developing interventions targeting depression in frail older adults, she has worked in partnership with community providers (e.g., primary care, home healthcare, aging services) to enhance sustainability and scalability. The overarching goal of this research is reducing their risk of depression, suicidality, and disability, increasing ability to live independently, and improving access to quality mental health care. Bruce's career has also focused on mentoring graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career investigators. She has been principal investigator of two NIH-funded R25 grants that support national mentoring networks for early and mid-career researchers, co-director of three NIH postdoctoral training programs, and member of the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health and Society Scholars Program. Prior to joining the faculty at Dartmouth, Bruce was a professor of sociology in psychiatry at a Weill Cornell Medical College. There, she served as psychiatry's associate vice chair for research, and as co-director of Cornell's NIH-funded Advanced Research Center for Geriatric Mood Disorders. Bruce received her PhD in sociology, MPH in health services, and completed postdoctoral training in psychiatric epidemiology at Yale University.
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- Research Project Director at the Dartmouth Institute
Megan Holthoff currently serves as a Research Project Director at The Dartmouth Institute supporting the development of learning health systems for the adults with inflammatory bowel disease and people with serious illness. Since 2015, Megan has been working with the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation developing the IBD Qorus learning health system, a quality of care initiative focused on coproducing better health outcomes and high value care for adults with inflammatory bowel disease. She and her team support a mix of 50 academic and private practice IBD clinical teams across the U.S. on the uptake and use of a shared dashboard to support patient and clinician partnerships utilizing quality improvement science methodology.
Megan also is Co-Director of the Promise Partnership, a real world, practical, scalable, prototype of a person-centered, learning health system for coproducing better health care experience, value, and oncology and palliative care delivery science. She leads multiple interdisciplinary care teams in engaging researchers, patients, families, clinicians, and other stakeholders in co-designing tools to achieve better care experiences, higher health care value, and more knowledge on the science of oncology and palliative health care delivery.
She has 19 years of experience in clinical research administration, including project management, data management, regulatory and contracting, human subject protections, and oversight of clinical and behavioral health research to assure compliance with local and federal rules and regulations. Megan earned a BS from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY and a MSHS from George Washington University, Washington, DC.
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- Analytic Project Director
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- Assistant Director, Data Analytic Core
Monica began working at The Dartmouth Institute in October 2014 coordinating complex projects. She spent several years leading facilities management for the Institute and was instrumental in multiple successful department relocations. Monica previously chaired the TDI Work-Space Work Group, which is dedicated to creating a balanced, productive, conflict-free working environment. In 2017, she took on two new roles, working closely with the Data Analytic Core to support compliance and training operations and with TDI Communications to assist with project management. Monica has also served in a key role in work culture development as the TDI-designated community builder. Monica brings a contagious positive and caring attitude towards relationship development and nurturing networking opportunities, particularly with new employees. Currently, Monica serves as the Data Analytic Core (DAC) Research Compliance Coordinator, where she works with faculty and clinicians from both the College and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to maintain the DAC online security training program, oversee IRB and DUA administration, and collaborate with the broader DAC infrastructure team in support of initiatives to improve DAC operational efficiencies. Monica brings a particular passion in healthcare around mental illness.
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- Principal Research Scientist / Interim Director, Data Analytic Core
The focus of Dr. Birkmeyer's research is collaborative quality improvement, comparative effectiveness research, and health services research. In her role as a principal research scientist at the Dartmouth Institute, Birkmeyer participates in studies to evaluate treatments and improve the quality of care for a variety of conditions.
Early in her career, her work was devoted to improving the quality of surgical treatment by filling holes in its underlying evidence base. Specifically, in designing and conducting clinical trials to provide answers to critical unanswered questions in surgery. Another strand of her work has focused on policy relevant-health services research. These studies, frequently based on analyses of large administrative databases, have identified structural characteristics of care that underlie variations and disparities in clinical outcomes and relationships between the costs and quality of care. Using meta-analysis, decision analysis, and mixed qualitative and quantitative methods to improve clinical and patient decision-making has also been a focus of her research.
During her 10 years at the University of Michigan, Birkmeyer served as the founding director of the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative (MBSC). In her role as the MBSC director, she engaged surgeons and morbid obesity patients as active participants in research leading to changes in clinical care, improved outcomes, and changes in related national insurance coverage and policy. Her work showing that the technical skills of bariatric surgeons varied widely and that higher skill ratings were associated with lower complication rates was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and resulted in an NIH-funded study of a peer-coaching intervention to improve surgeon's proficiency.
She received a BA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1990, completed an MS in epidemiology and fellowship in the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease at Harvard in 1992, and was the first graduate of the PhD program at Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences in 1997.
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- Senior Research Project Manager
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- Senior Technical Research Programmer / Analyst
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- Research Programmer / Analyst II
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- Senior Research Scientist / Director, Center for Program Design and Evaluation
Rebecca Smith is part of The Dartmouth Institute's Comparative Effectiveness Research Program led by Dr. Anna Tosteson. As a Fellow and coordinator, she contributes to multiple projects under a large research portfolio examining how innovations in health care impact health outcomes, cost, and quality of care. She has particular interest in understanding the sources of disparities in care for vulnerable populations including patient, provider, and system level factors, and how those factors may impact decision making. She is currently involved in multiple grants with the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) looking at the effectiveness of breast cancer screening and patient reported outcomes. She also is engaged in the analysis for the U.S. component of The International Costs and Utilities Related to Osteoporotic Fractures Study (ICUROS) comparing costs, and impact of osteoporotic fractures on quality of life and resource utilization. Smith has worked on various research projects under the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth including the InSHAPE study, and a NIAAA sponsored clinical trial. She has held positions as a Global Health Scholar (2015-2016) and Global Health Fellow (2016-2017) both with The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. She earned her MS in health policy and health service research from The Dartmouth Institute in 2017. In 2011, she completed her dual BS in business administration and international affairs at The University of New Hampshire. As an undergraduate, she conducted research abroad at Fudan University in Shanghai China examining the changing structures and regulations for non-governmental organizations in China.
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- Senior Associate Director of Development, Geisel School of Medicine
Robert "Bob" Holley leads fundraising initiatives at The Dartmouth Institute and collaborates on shared projects within the Joint Development Office to support of the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Hitchcock Health. Prior to joining Dartmouth, Bob served as vice president and chief development officer for several national and international public policy, educational, and public health organizations. He holds a BA from College of The Atlantic, an EdM in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University, and a Certificate in Value Based Health Care from The Dartmouth Institute.
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- Professor, Active Emeritus
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- Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology / Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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- Human Resources and Faculty Affairs Officer
Scott Shipman, MD, MPH, is director of clinical innovations and director of primary care affairs at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Shipman works with a wide range of health system leaders to promote effective innovations in ambulatory care delivery and teaching. A general pediatrician and health services researcher by training, he has studied the health care workforce extensively. He guides AAMC activities promoting emerging high-value ambulatory care models within AMCs and affiliates, with a focus on improving care at the interface of primary care and specialty care. At Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Shipman supports care transformation efforts on a limited basis, including a growing community health worker program and efforts to improve communication, coordination, and efficiency between primary care and specialty care physicians in the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth and its affiliated community practices. He works with online students in the Dartmouth Institute MPH program on their practicum requirement. He received an MD from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, completed a residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins, where he also received his MPH.
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- Research Programmer / Analyst I / Seneca.D.Freyleue@Dartmouth.Edu
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- Program Director, Levy Serious Illness Incubator
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- Senior Research Scientist / Associate Director, Center for Program Design and Evaluation
As a research scientist with the Center for Program Design & Evaluation (CPDE), Sharon O'Connor is an evaluator and project manager with expertise in providing clients with meaningful and actionable results. She is experienced in mixed-methods program evaluation, survey design and analysis, and creating powerful reports that clearly and concisely present and interpret key findings. Working closely with clients and PIs, O'Connor helps shape programs by adding intellectual and research value and providing key input and feedback that allows for mid-stream course corrections and adjustment to the intervention or program content. Instead of just dumping data tables in front of clients and PIs, she analyzes, interprets, and coalesces data from multiple sources to create top-level, digestible, and actionable intelligence that can be used to help a program achieve its goals. O'Connor directs the evaluation plans and activities for several concurrent projects and programs, ranging from 5-year multi-site NIH- and CDC-funded grants to shorter-term federal and state funded programs. She has been an invited speaker at state, regional, and national level conferences, and has contributed to grant applications, funder reports, and publications since helping launch CPDE in 2010. She holds an MS in healthcare research from The Dartmouth Institute, an MBA from Boston University, and a BA cum laude from Simmons College.
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- Research and Evaluation Associate
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- Research and Evaluation Associate, CPDE
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- Research Project Director
Tina Foster is a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, and vice-chair for education in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and preventive medicine. She is program director for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency, a unique residency focused on the improvement of health and healthcare services for populations served by Dartmouth-Hitchcock. At The Dartmouth Institute, she co-directs the Microsystem Academy and leads two courses in the residential Master of Public Health program as well as the practicum course for its online program. She has also taught in Dartmouth's Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) and The Dartmouth Institute's online certificate programs. From 2013-2014 she served as national director for the Veteran's Affairs Quality Scholars and chief resident in Quality and Safety programs. She is a member of the leadership team for the International Coproduction of Health Network (ICOHN). Other areas of interest include cognitive simulation, patient safety, effective communication, and encounter-based decision aids. A graduate of University of California San Francisco medical school, she earned an MPH in 1998 from the Harvard School of Public Health and an MS in 2001 from Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (now The Dartmouth Institute) while she was a fellow in the Veteran's Affairs Quality Scholars national fellowship program in White River Junction, VT.
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- Instructional Technologist
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- Senior Research Administrator
Wambui Moraa Onsando is a PhD student at The Dartmouth Institute and prior research assistant at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health. Born in Kenya, Moraa graduated with an MD from St. George's University in Grenada before attaining her MPH from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Her masters culminated in a project exploring the widespread implications of medical tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa and an internship that examined the obstacles faced by women in the peripartum period suffering from opioid addiction. As a former Health Equity Research Fellow, she worked with PIs in the Health Equity and Advocacy lab to explore housing, food insecurity and discrimination as social determinants of health. She is passionate about understanding how barriers to an optimal provider-patient relationship, and the applications of patient centered communication in an ever-changing healthcare delivery landscape, can help bridge health equity gaps. Moraa enjoys music and unwinds by playing guitar and ukelele. She has 2 dogs and a craft obsession for every season.
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- Research Programmer / Analyst
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- Statistical Research Analyst