Institute Leadership

Dr. James N. Weinstein, Director

James Weinstein, DO, MS, is the successor to Dr Jack Wennberg as Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He is also Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and an internationally renowned spine surgeon and health services researcher. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal, Spine.

Through his career, Dr. Weinstein has been a champion of informed choice among patients. He founded the first-in-the-nation Center for Shared Decision-Making, allowing patients to incorporate clinical trials evidence into decisions about their health care choices. The Spine Center at Dartmouth, which he established, has become a model for informed choice, drawing administrators and colleagues from around the world who wish to replicate the center in their own institutions. In testimony before Congress, published research, and frequent participation in conferences and on national and international panels, he has demonstrated the financial, patient satisfaction, and outcomes benefits of shared decision making.

Dr. Elliott S. Fisher

Dr. Fisher is Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. He is the primary investigator for the Dartmouth Atlas Project, and a leader of TDI's health policy reform efforts. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), served on the IOM committee that recently released reports on performance measurement and pay for performance, and is currently co-chair of the National Quality Forum committee developing recommendations for a national framework for measuring and improving the efficiency of U.S. health care.

Center Directors:

• The Center for Aging Research - Stephen J. Bartels, MD, MS
• The Center for Education - Gerald T. O’Connor, PhD, ScD
• The Center for Health Policy Research - David C. Goodman, MD, MS
• The Center for Informed Choice - E. Dale Collins, MD, MS
  Co-Director, Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas, PhD
• The Center for Leadership and Improvement - Paul B. Batalden, MD
  Associate Director, Mark Splaine, MD
• The Center for Medicine and the Media - H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH
  Co-Director, Steven Woloshin, MD, MS