Psychiatry Non-Clinician Scientists

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC)

Kelly Aschbrenner, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
Areas of focus: Implementation science, health equity, lifestyle interventions, first episode psychosis, mixed methods research
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Erin Barnett, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
Areas of focus: Intervention research, implementation science, qualitative research, mixed methods research
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Martha Bruce, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
Areas of focus: Population-based sampling designs, interventions (patient-focused or staff-focused) conducted in community agencies
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Fallon Cluxton-Keller, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Areas of focus: Perinatal and family mental health, implementation science
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Joelle Ferron, MSW, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Areas of focus: Healthy living and smoking cessation interventions for adults with severe mental illness, applied statistical methods
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Sarah Pratt, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of The Dartmouth Institute Director, Center for Collaborative Mental Health Research
Areas of focus: Development, evaluation, implementation and dissemination of interventions to improve the health and quality of life of people disabled by serious mental illness; integration of primary and mental healthcare; community-based research
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Diana Wallin, PhD

Research Scientist, Preclinical Manager of Irradiation, Preclinical Imaging and Microscopy
Areas of focus: Preclinical imaging (structural and functional MRI), neuroimaging analysis, preclinical surgery and behavior

White River Junction VA Medical Center (VAMC)

Jessica Hamblen, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Areas of focus: Developing, testing, and disseminating evidence-based PTSD treatments; evaluation of educational interventions to help get patients into evidence-based treatments
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Paul Holtzheimer, MD, MS

Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Surgery; Deputy Director for Research, National Center for PTSD, Staff Physician, VAMC; Staff Physician, DHMC
Areas of focus: Interventions for PTSD, depression and related disorders, especially for patients with treatment-resistant and comorbid illness; brain imaging and brain stimulation therapies (including transcranial magnetic stimulation, electroconvulsive therapy, vagus nerve stimulation, and deep brain stimulation); neural circuitry of treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders
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Crystal Noller, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Assistant Professor of Surgery; Research Health Scientist, VAMC
Areas of focus: Animal models of neurotrauma and psychiatric illness
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Paula Schnurr, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry
Areas of focus: Treatment of PTSD using psychotherapy, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, instrument development, understanding the relationship between PTSD and quality of life
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Brian Shiner, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Associate Professor of The Dartmouth Institute, Associate Chief of Staff for Research, VAMC
Areas of focus: Electronic medical record data, quality of care and treatment outcomes for PTSD and suicide prevention
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Vince Watts, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Areas of focus: Clinical and epidemiologic research that examines treatments for PTSD and suicide prevention
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