2024-2025
Sarah Pratt, PhD
T32 Mentor
Sarah I. Pratt (Health Behavior Change, Clinical Trials) 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 to 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.
2023-2024
Erin Barnett, PhD
T32 Mentor
Erin Barnett, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and 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.
Paul Barr, PhD
T32 Mentor
Paul Barr, PhD is Associate Professor of 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.
Martha Bruce, PhD, MPH
Program Co-Director
Martha Bruce, PhD, MPH is Professor of Psychiatry, CFM, and TDI and Vice Chair of Research in Psychiatry. She has served as PI of three NIH-funded (R25) research mentoring programs, has served as primary mentor to 13 NIH K awardees, and has directed/co-directed 4 NIH T32 training programs. She served on the steering committee of this T32, led weekly seminars, met with most Fellows to provide secondary research mentoring and was primary mentor for 2 Fellows. Her NIH-funded research focuses on integrating mental health into primary care for older adults and on implementation strategies to deliver evidence-based interventions in community settings.
Stacie Deiner, MS, MD
T32 Mentor
Stacie Deiner MS, MD, is the LeRoy Garth Professor and Vice Chair for Research, 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.
Mary Kay Jankowski, PhD
T32 Mentor
Mary Kay Jankowski, PhD, 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.
Jennifer Meijer RD, MPH, PhD
T32 Mentor
Dr. Jennifer Meijer is an Assistant Professor in Medicine with appointments in Epidemiology and Pediatrics. Dr. Meijer's research laboratory explores how our ability to metabolize the food we eat is influenced by disease states, such as obesity and metabolic diseases. Her lab specializes on studying the acute response to meals, assessing dynamics of metabolism by metabolomics and respiratory exchange ratios. In the Weight Center, Dr. Meijer leads research efforts to assess the clinical impact of new obesity management practices. She practices as a Registered Dietitian within the Weight Center.
Michael Passarelli, PhD
T32 Mentor
Dr. Michael Passerelli is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is a cancer epidemiologist focusing on the role of nutrition, metabolism, and endocrinology on cancer development and outcomes. His research focuses on both early detection and survivorship, with interests in biorepository utilization and quantitative methods in clinical and molecular epidemiology.
James Stahl MD, MPH
Program Co-Director
Dr. Stahl is 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 over 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.
Susanne Tanski, MD, MPH
T32 Mentor
Susanne Tanski, MD, MPH, 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.