This is a representative list of potential faculty mentors. Many others are also available.
Kelly Aschbrenner, PhD
Mixed Methods and Implementation Science, Health Behavior Change in Young People
Kelly Aschbrenner is an associate professor of psychiatry and director of PEARLS, The Psychosis Early Action, Resource, and Learning Service. Her work involves developing and testing interventions and evaluating adaptations of evidence-based practices as they are implemented. She mentors scholars in a National Institute of Health (NIH) Mixed Methods Research Training Program for the Health Sciences.
Amber Barnato, MD, MPH, MS
Unwarranted Variation, Health Disparities, Palliative and End of Life Care
Amber Barnato is the S.J. and R.M.L 1960 Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery. She is PI or multiple PI of four active studies focused on end-of-life care; her recent focus is on advance care planning and end-of-life decision making aimed at better aligning healthcare with patient values. She has mentored 15 post-doctoral fellows and K-Award trainees.
Paul Barr, PhD
Advancing Shared Decision-Making and Mental Health Literacy Through Innovative Tools and Research
Paul Barr is an associate professor at The Dartmouth Institute (TDI). His research involves developing and evaluating measurement tools and interventions to strengthen shared decision-making and improve the communication of medical information between medical personnel and patients and their families. His recent work includes the development of a decision support tool for individuals with depression in collaboration with Mental Health American, with the goal of increasing mental health literacy and improving access to online evidence-based treatments.
Erin Barnett, PhD
Erin Barnett is an associate professor of psychiatry at The Dartmouth Institute. She is a mental health services researcher focused on implementing and improving interventions and systems serving children and families with trauma, mental health needs, and substance use disorders. Her research is guided by community-based participatory strategies, qualitative methods, shared decision-making principles, and implementation science.
Tim Burdick, MD, MBA, MSc
Data Science
Tim Burdick is an associate professor and vice chair of research in community and family medicine, with appointments in biomedical data science and The Dartmouth Institute. Experienced in wilderness and disaster medicine, he has practiced rural family medicine continuously for more than 20 years. Within the Dartmouth Health system, he is the associate chief research officer for informatics, helping lead the research use of Epic EHR, the enterprise data warehouse, and other computer systems. His research emphasizes informatics and quality improvement methods to improve primary care, including behavioral health, cancer screening, and transitional care management. He has helped mentor students, fellows and junior faculty and teaches statistical measurement and analysis for healthcare improvement.
Stacie Deiner, MS, MD
Stacie Deiner is the LeRoy Garth Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Anesthesiology. Her research involves improving transitions between primary care and surgery through enhanced systematic assessment and communication between surgeons, anesthesiologists, primary care providers, patients, and community workers to enhance cognitive and functional recovery among geriatric patients.
Glyn Elwyn, MD, MSc, PhD
Shared Decision Making
Glyn Elwyn is a professor of community and family medicine (CFM) and The Dartmouth Institute (TDI). He leads research in patient engagement within a learning health system, helping patients to be informed, empowered decision-makers and to improve their ability to self-manage chronic conditions. He co-directs the Co-Production Laboratory and has mentored more than 25 junior researchers.
Rebecca Emeny, PhD
Methodology
Rebecca Emeny is a research scientist at TDI and a methodological consultant in the department of psychiatry. Dr. Emeny has worked as a collaborating methodologist on the design and analysis of clinical and observational studies in many clinical areas, including mental health and aging, and work stress-related risk for heart disease.
Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH
Costs, Health Care Effectiveness, Health Care Finance
Elliott Fisher is the James W. Squires Professor of Medicine and a professor at TDI. A member of the National Academy of Medicine, he is an expert in evaluating the costs, effectiveness, and financing of health care. He has mentored dozens of clinician-researchers.
Madelyn Frumkin, PhD
Madelyn (Maddy) Frumkin is an assistant professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry in the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health. She is a clinical health psychologist specializing in chronic and perioperative pain. Much of her current research involves leveraging data from smartphones and wearable devices to improve prediction of which patients experience persistent pain, mental health problems, and/or opioid use after surgery. She is also interested in the development and evaluation of scalable mental health interventions that increase access to evidence-based psychotherapies in medical contexts.
Ellen Flaherty, PhD, APRN, AGSP
Integrated Geriatrics in Primary Care and Interdisciplinary Teams
Ellen Flaherty is the vice president for the Geriatric Center of Excellence and an assistant professor of medicine, CFM, and TDI. Dr. Flaherty’s practice and research have focused on interdisciplinary approaches to quality improvement and workforce enhancement in geriatrics.
Daisy Goodman, CNM, DNP, MPH
Integrated Care, Behavioral Health in Maternal Care
Daisy Goodman is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, CFM, and TDI. She is a practicing nurse midwife and is co-PI of a large Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-funded study to evaluate integrated care for pregnant women with opioid use disorder.
Mary Kay Jankowski, PhD
Mary Kay Jankowski is an associate professor of psychiatry, director of the Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center and director of psychology services at Dartmouth Hitchcock. Her work focuses on improving the lives of at-risk and trauma-affected children, teens and families. Her research has included developing and testing new treatment interventions, disseminating evidence-based treatments for traumatized youth into "real-world settings," and transforming child-serving systems to improve services for youth and families.
Margaret Karagas, PhD
Margaret R. Karagas is the inaugural chair and James W. Squires Professor of Epidemiology at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, where she also serves as professor of community and family medicine. She directs the Centers for Molecular Epidemiology and Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research at Dartmouth, leading interdisciplinary studies on environmental exposures and their health impacts from infancy through adulthood. Dr. Karagas co-established Dartmouth's Quantitative Biomedical Sciences program, integrating epidemiology, bioinformatics, and biostatistics to train diverse investigators. Her research has influenced policy changes by uncovering health effects of environmental contaminants, particularly in understudied rural populations.
JoAnna Leyenaar, MD, PhD, MPH
Integration of Mental Health and Pediatrics, Urban-Rural Disparities
JoAnna Leyenaar is an associate professor of pediatrics and TDI. She studies strategies to improve behavioral healthcare for youth in pediatric settings, and has mentored many graduate students.
Sarah Lord, PhD
Implementation Science
Sarah Lord is a clinical-developmental psychologist and an associate professor of psychiatry, biomedical data sciences, and pediatrics at Geisel School of Medicine, and a member of the leadership team of the Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science. Her research focuses on developing, evaluating, and implementing evidence-based treatments for substance use and mental health conditions, with an emphasis on digital technologies and diverse systems of care, including current projects focused on opioid use disorder, maternal health, and community resource linkages. As a clinician-researcher with industry experience, Dr. Lord brings a stakeholder-centered implementation science and community engagement perspective to her work.
Lisa Marsch, PhD
Lisa A. Marsch is director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and professor of psychiatry. Her research focuses on development and evaluation of technology-based therapeutic tools for health behavior, as well as on identification and treatment of substance use disorders in primary care. She has served/serves as PI on numerous NIH-funded grants and has mentored more than 28 early-career investigators.
James O’Malley, PhD
Biostatistics
James O’Malley is a professor of biostatistics at TDI and the Geisel School of Medicine. His research focuses on causal inference, multivariate-hierarchical modeling, combining information across studies to design and analyze trials, and social network analysis. He has been PI or senior statistician for 36 studies, primary mentor to 3 fellows, and co-mentor for 18 fellows and students.
Sarah Pratt, PhD
Health behavior change, clinical trials
Sarah I. Pratt is an associate professor in psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Pratt directs the Center for Collaborative Mental Health Research. A clinical psychologist by training, she has over 20 years of experience leading research studies focused on developing and evaluating interventions to enhance the health and functioning of people with mental health conditions. She has created interventions with standardized curricula designed to help people co-manage mental and physical health problems, improve health, fitness and functioning, quit smoking, and use electronic cigarettes for tobacco harm reduction. She has tested such interventions in many single- and multi-site clinical trials, including comparative effectiveness trials with community-engaged stakeholder input.
Susan Roberts, PhD
Susan Roberts is an experienced scientific administrator and clinical trialist who currently leads the NIH POWERS consortium, a discovery science initiative including biological, psychological, sociocultural determinants of health and weight management using questionnaires, remote data collection from wearables and intensive physiological studies. She was previously site PI for the NIH CALERIE consortium and worksite wellness interventions with a strong community engagement focus and dietary, physical activity, and weight management intervention and outcome components. She is a professor of epidemiology and medicine, and senior associate dean for foundational research at Geisel, and was previously co-director of the Tufts Institute for Global Obesity Research. She is also an experienced scientific and public communicator and mentor for trainees and junior faculty.
James Sargent, MD
Children and Adolescent Health Behavior Primary Care & Community Research
James Sargent is a professor in both pediatric oncology and CFM. He conducts population-based studies of young people, using survey and machine learning to capture media and marketing exposures to examine their association with substance use and vaping that inform primary care interventions for youth. He has mentored many early-career clinician investigators.
James Stahl, MD, MPH
James Stahl is an associate professor and past section chief for general internal medicine. He is a long-practicing clinician, decision scientist, operations researcher, and technologist. He is an active teacher and has mentored more than 20 early investigators. His research has focused on clinical system innovation, access to care, and implementing change using system engineering tools, new technologies, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He is an expert in systems analysis and engineering, telemedicine, cost-effectiveness analysis, and outcomes research.
Catherine Stanger, PhD
Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health, Diabetes Control, Health Behavior Change, Technology-Delivered Intervention
Catherine Stanger is an associate professor of psychiatry and a licensed clinical psychologist with 25 years of experience in clinical interventions research among youth and families. She conducts research using novel digital approaches to improve engagement in disease management and outcomes among youth and their families. She has mentored many undergraduate and graduate trainees, as well as 9 postdoctoral fellows.
Susanne Tanski, MD, MPH
Susanne Tanski is an associate professor of pediatrics and section chief of general academic pediatrics. She is a practicing clinician whose research focuses on tobacco control among children and improving the effectiveness of pediatricians in their tobacco control efforts with parents. She serves as PI for an American Academy of Pediatrics-funded study on eliminating secondhand tobacco smoke exposure of children and Co-I on other NIDA, NCI and NIAAA-funded studies.
William Torrey, MD
Implementation Science and Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care
William Torrey is a professor of psychiatry and interim chair of the department of psychiatry. He is an expert in the implementation of evidence-based treatments and integrated services. His current work focuses on screening and brief intervention for behavioral health in primary care in rural settings.
Anna N. A. Tosteson, ScD
Secondary Data and Comparative Effectiveness Research
Anna N. A. Tosteson is the James J. Carroll Professor of Medicine and CFM, interim director of TDI, director of TDI’s Comparative Effectiveness Research Program and co-director of the Cancer Control Research Program. Her research applies decision science and biostatistics to clinical and health policy.
Vikrant Vaze, PhD
Systems Engineering
Vikrant Vaze is an associate professor at the Thayer School of Engineering. He works at the intersection of engineering, medicine, and innovation, using machine learning to develop strategies for precision medicine.
Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH
Angelo Volandes is chief research officer for Dartmouth Health (Interim) and professor of medicine as well as vice chair for research in the department of medicine. His work focuses on improving conversations around serious illness, aging, and end-of-life care – an area he believes is critical for both patients and healthcare systems. He integrates clinical care, research, and policy to advance patient-centered decision-making through innovative interventions. He has mentored 37 developing researchers, many of whom have developed independent research careers.