The Dartmouth Institute
Faculty Directory
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Susan A. Reeves, RN, MS
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Martha G. Regan-Smith, MD, EdD
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Douglas J. Robertson, MD, MPH
Dr. Robertson is a Gastroenterologist with research interests both in the epidemiology of colorectal cancer (he is the Clinical Director of the Calcium and Vitamin D Polyp Prevention Study) and the utility of screening and surveillance for this disease. Although colonoscopy is increasingly performed, his research suggests that the degree of cancer prevention afforded may not be as great as suggested by earlier studies. He also recently received a VA Career Development Award to study the utility of fecal occult blood testing following a normal colonoscopy. |
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Hilary F. Ryder, MD
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James D. Sargent, MD
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Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS
Dr. Schwartz's research focuses on learning how to enhance the quality of medical communication to the public, patients, physicians and policymakers. Her work (in conjunction with Dr. Steven Woloshin) has 2 main approaches: improving the quality of messages presenting health information to people, and preparing audiences to make sense of the messages they receive. Her main focus is on the communication of medical statistics and information about the benefits and harms of screening and prescription drugs. She is the author, with Steven Woloshin and H. Gilbert Welch, of "Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics." |
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John D. Seigne, MB
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Scott A. Shipman, MD, MPH
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Corey A. Siegel, MD,
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Brenda Sirovich, MD, MS
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Jonathan S. Skinner, PhD
Dr. Skinner's research interests are the determinants of health care spending and outcomes among different income groups in the Medicare population. He is currently studying how high and low income groups are treated differently for heart attacks and to what extent the better survival outcomes for high income groups are the consequence of different treatment patterns. He has also studied redistributional effects of the Medicare system and the time-series pattern of catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditures. |
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Mark E. Splaine, MD, MS
Mark Splaine teaches in the Masters degree program at Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. His primary academic interests are to make statistics more easily understandable and useful for health care providers, to develop practical methods to measure clinical processes and outcomes that can be incorporated into patient care settings, and to teach about how health professions can use continuous quality improvement as a way to enhance their practice and the value they provide to patients |
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Douglas Staiger, PhD
Dr. Stukel's professional Interests include:
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David Stevens, MD
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Therese A. Stukel, PhD
Dr. Stukel's professional Interests include: - Methods for observational studies (propensity scores, instrumental variables) - Health system resources, utilization and outcomes - Methods for clustered data (longitudinal models, multi-level models) - Longitudinal data analysis methods - Volume-outcome studies |
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Gautham Suresh, MD
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Stephen D. Surgenor, MD
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Jason M. Sutherland, PhD
Dr. Sutherland is the director of TDI's Data Analysis Core. |
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Harold M. Swartz, MD
Research interests in relevant fields include policy and academic issues in the development of academic/research physicians; the effects of generational differences in the responses of physicians to changes in the health care system; the evaluation of new complex diagnostic technologies. |
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Linda L. Titus-Ernstoff, Phd, MA
Environmental and genetic risk factors for melanoma; female cancers; prenatal and early childhood exposures; mechanisms and health outcomes related to diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposure; adolescent risk behaviors. |
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Frances M. Todd,
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Karen A. Tombs, EdD
Karen is the Programs Administrator for TDI's Graduate Education Program. She is also an instructor, specializing in small group development and process, and peer feedback in small groups. |
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Ivan M. Tomek, MD
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William C. Torrey, MD
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Anna N.A. Tosteson, ScD
Dr. Tosteson's methodological interests include decision-analytic modeling, economic evaluation, preference-based measures of health-related quality of life, and statistical methods for diagnostic technology assessment. She has used these methodologies to address clinical and health policy issues in osteoporosis/musculoskeletal diseases and women’s health. Her current research in osteoporosis, funded by the National Institute on Aging and National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, focuses on improving care and decision making for individuals with osteoporosis. Dr. Tosteson is a member of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, the International Society for Quality of Life Research, the American Statistical Association, and is Secretary-Treasurer for the Society for Medical Decision Making. She is an active participant in national and international groups that focus on the economic evaluation of both new and established health care technologies, including the American College of Radiology Imaging Network and the Outcomes Measurement in Rheumatology Economics Task Force. |
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Tor D. Tosteson, ScD
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Eric Wadsworth, PhD, CPA, MBA
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John H. Wasson, MD
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William B. Weeks, MD, MBA
Dr. Weeks is a faculty member who teaches several courses in TDI's graduate degree programs, as well as one of the creators of TDI's Office of Professional Education and Outreach. He is also a psychiatrist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont where he directs the VA Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, the Veterans' Rural Health Initiative, and the VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program. His research interests lie in business and economic aspects of health services delivery, particularly as they relate to physician education, veterans who live in rural settings, and the quality and safety of health care. |
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James N. Weinstein, D.O., M.Sc.
Dr. James Weinstein is the Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Third Century Professor at Dartmouth Medical School, and an internationally renowned spine surgeon and health services researcher. |
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Milton C. Weinstein, Ph.D.
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H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH
Dr. Welch is a general internist whose research focuses on the problems created by medicine's efforts to detect disease early: physicians test too often, treat too aggressively and tell too many people that they are sick. Most of his work has focused on overdiagnosis in cancer screening: in particular, screening for melanoma, cervical, breast and prostate cancer. His recent book, Should I be tested for cancer? Maybe not and here's why" (UC Press 2004) was written while he was a Visiting Scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer - the cancer section of the World Health Organization in Lyon, France. |
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David Wennberg, MD, MPH
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John E. Wennberg, MD
John E. Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H., is the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor (Chair) in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences and Founder and Director Emeritus of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He has been a Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine since 1980 and in the Department of Medicine since 1989. With colleague Alan Gittelsohn, Dr. Wennberg developed a method of determining population-based rates for the utilization and distribution of health-care services. This method, called small area analysis and first published in 1973, revealed large variations in health care usage among different areas. Work to uncover the reasons behind these variations led Wennberg and his colleagues to develop techniques to document the results of common medical practices, a strategy that came to be called outcomes research. Dr. Wennberg is the founding editor of The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which examines the patterns of medical resource intensity and utilization in the United States. The Atlas project has also reported on patterns of end of life care, inequities in the Medicare reimbursement system, and the underuse of preventive care. Dr. Wennberg and colleague Al Mulley are co-founders of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, a non-profit corporation providing objective scientific information to patients about their treatment choices using interactive media. His latest work has focused on the use of this technology to inform patients of the results of outcomes research so they can participate in medical decision making. |
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Renda S. Wiener, MD, MPH
Health Services research Pulmonary & Critical Care clinical practice at DHMC |
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Steven Woloshin, MD, MS
Dr. Woloshin's research interest is in learning how to enhance the quality of medical communication to the public, patients, physicians and policymakers. His work (in collaboration with Dr. Lisa Schwartz) has 2 main approaches: improving the quality of messages presenting health information to people, and preparing audiences to make sense of the messages they receive. His main focus is on the communication of medical statistics and information about the benefits and harms of screening and prescription drugs. |
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Michael Zubkoff, PhD
Dr. Zubkoff's current research includes studies aimed at (1) measuring variations in the process, outcomes, and costs of medical care for chronic disease patients treated in different systems of care and by different medical specialties (National Study of Medical Outcomes-MOS); (2) evaluating the cost-effectiveness of continuous treatment teams versus traditional care for the drug and alcohol-abusing mentally ill; and (3) using functional status measures in developing geriatric initiatives. |
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