Stephanie Acquilano, MA
Research Project Director
stephanie.c.acquilano@dartmouth.edu | (603) 271-5747 |Monica Adams-Foster
DAC Operations Manager
monica.adams-foster@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5604 | Read BioMonica began working at The Dartmouth Institute in October 2014 coordinating complex projects. She spent several years leading facilities management for the Institute and was instrumental in multiple successful department relocations. Monica previously chaired the TDI Work-Space Work Group, which is dedicated to creating a balanced, productive, conflict-free working environment. In 2017, she took on two new roles, working closely with the Data Analytic Core to support compliance and training operations and with TDI Communications to assist with project management. Monica has also served in a key role in work culture development as the TDI-designated community builder. Monica brings a contagious positive and caring attitude towards relationship development and nurturing networking opportunities, particularly with new employees. Currently, Monica serves as the Data Analytic Core (DAC) Research Compliance Coordinator, where she works with faculty and clinicians from both the College and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to maintain the DAC online security training program, oversee IRB and DUA administration, and collaborate with the broader DAC infrastructure team in support of initiatives to improve DAC operational efficiencies. Monica brings a particular passion in healthcare around mental illness.
Ellesse-Roselee Akré, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor
ellesse.l.akre@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5535 | View Full ProfileJennifer Alford-Teaster, MA, MPH
Director, Data Analytic Core
jennifer.a.alford-teaster@dartmouth.edu | View Full ProfileShani Bardach, PhD
Program Director, Levy Serious Illness Incubator
shani.bardach@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5608 |Amber Barnato, MD, MPH, MS
Director
John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professor in Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Professor of Medicine
amber.barnato@dartmouth.edu | View Full ProfileNancy Birkmeyer, PhD
Principal Research Scientist
nancy.j.birkmeyer@dartmouth.edu | (603) 650-8529 | Read BioThe focus of Dr. Birkmeyer's research is collaborative quality improvement, comparative effectiveness research, and health services research. In her role as a principal research scientist at the Dartmouth Institute, Birkmeyer participates in studies to evaluate treatments and improve the quality of care for a variety of conditions.
Early in her career, her work was devoted to improving the quality of surgical treatment by filling holes in its underlying evidence base. Specifically, in designing and conducting clinical trials to provide answers to critical unanswered questions in surgery. Another strand of her work has focused on policy relevant-health services research. These studies, frequently based on analyses of large administrative databases, have identified structural characteristics of care that underlie variations and disparities in clinical outcomes and relationships between the costs and quality of care. Using meta-analysis, decision analysis, and mixed qualitative and quantitative methods to improve clinical and patient decision-making has also been a focus of her research.
During her 10 years at the University of Michigan, Birkmeyer served as the founding director of the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative (MBSC). In her role as the MBSC director, she engaged surgeons and morbid obesity patients as active participants in research leading to changes in clinical care, improved outcomes, and changes in related national insurance coverage and policy. Her work showing that the technical skills of bariatric surgeons varied widely and that higher skill ratings were associated with lower complication rates was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and resulted in an NIH-funded study of a peer-coaching intervention to improve surgeon’s proficiency.
She received a BA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1990, completed an MS in epidemiology and fellowship in the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease at Harvard in 1992, and was the first graduate of the PhD program at Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences in 1997.
Andrew Bohm, MS, PhD
Adjunct Instructor
andrew.r.bohm@Dartmouth.edu | Read Bio
Andrew R. Bohm is an epidemiologist and quality improvement scientist with a longstanding interest in emergency and cardiovascular medicine, biostatistics, and implementation science. His work focuses on cardiovascular outcome epidemiology and related policy in the pre-hospital, Emergency Medical Service setting. This research developed out of his prior experience as an Emergency Medical Technician in New York City and the surrounding area for 9 years. Dr. Bohm’s work in the area continues, but his current work also includes statistical methods for quality improvement modeling, implementation science, and allied health services research. He recently served as a biostatistician on the Covid-19 research team for the largest healthcare provider in New York, Northwell Health.
Bohm earned two BS degrees from Stony Brook University, one in Health Science, and one in Sociology; an MS from Dartmouth College in Healthcare Research; and a Ph.D. from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Bohm was licensed and certified EMT through the State University of New York.
Kristen Bronner, MA
Research Project Manager
kristen.k.bronner@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5612 | Read BioKristen Bronner is the managing editor of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. She has been a member of the Dartmouth Atlas project team since 1995 and has been lead editor since 2007. She edits manuscripts, designs graphics, and supervises production for all Dartmouth Atlas publications. She works with faculty investigators, as well as programmers and analysts, to improve and expand the Atlas database. She is also the webmaster and primary content developer for the Dartmouth Atlas web site, and the initial point of contact for users interested in learning more about the Dartmouth Atlas project. She earned both a BA (1991) and an MA in liberal studies (1996) from Dartmouth College.
Martha Bruce, PhD, MPH
Professor
martha.livingston.bruce@dartmouth.edu | Read BioMartha Bruce is a professor of psychiatry and of community and family medicine at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. As an implementation scientist, she integrates clinical, sociological, and public health perspectives in the development of clinically relevant interventions designed to reach as many individuals in need as possible. In developing interventions targeting depression in frail older adults, she has worked in partnership with community providers (e.g., primary care, home healthcare, aging services) to enhance sustainability and scalability. The overarching goal of this research is reducing their risk of depression, suicidality, and disability, increasing ability to live independently, and improving access to quality mental health care. Bruce’s career has also focused on mentoring graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career investigators. She has been principal investigator of two NIH-funded R25 grants that support national mentoring networks for early and mid-career researchers, co-director of three NIH postdoctoral training programs, and member of the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health and Society Scholars Program. Prior to joining the faculty at Dartmouth, Bruce was a professor of sociology in psychiatry at a Weill Cornell Medical College. There, she served as psychiatry’s associate vice chair for research, and as co-director of Cornell’s NIH-funded Advanced Research Center for Geriatric Mood Disorders. Bruce received her PhD in sociology, MPH in health services, and completed postdoctoral training in psychiatric epidemiology at Yale University.
E. Chandlee Bryan, M.Ed.
Career Services Manager
eleanor.chandlee.bryan@dartmouth.edu | View Full ProfileRebecca Butcher, MS, MPH
Senior Research Scientist
Director, Center for Program Design and Evaluation
rebecca.butcher@dartmouth.edu | (603) 502-9178 |Kathleen Carluzzo, MS
Senior Research Project Manager
kathleen.l.carluzzo@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-6441 |Benjamin Carter, PhD, MA, BA
Postdoctoral Researcher
benjamin.carter@dartmouth.edu | View Full ProfileDeanna Chyn, MPH
Associate Program Director, Health Equity Research Pathways Programs
Senior Research Programmer Analyst Manager
deanna.l.chyn@dartmouth.edu |Elaine R. Danyew, C-TAGME
Program Coordinator for Leadership Preventive Medicine
Elaine.R.Danyew@hitchcock.org | (603) 650-3156 |Julie R. Doherty, MA
Research Project Manager
Julie.R.Doherty@dartmouth.edu | (603) -65-3-0815 | View Full ProfileCaroline Donovan
Senior Administrative Assistant
Assistant to Dr. Amber Barnato
caroline.i.donovan@dartmouth.edu | View Full ProfileElliott Fisher, MD, MPH
Professor
elliott.s.fisher@dartmouth.edu | (603) 653-0756 | View Full ProfileJudith Fitzpatrick, MBA
Senior Research Administrator
judith.m.fitzpatrick@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5626 |Kristina Fjeld-Sparks, MPH
Senior Research Scientist
kristina.e.fjeld-sparks@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5627 |Tina Foster, MD, MPH, MS
Professor
tina.c.foster@hitchcock.org | Read BioTina Foster is a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, and vice-chair for education in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and preventive medicine. She is program director for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency, a unique residency focused on the improvement of health and healthcare services for populations served by Dartmouth-Hitchcock. At The Dartmouth Institute, she co-directs the Microsystem Academy and leads two courses in the residential Master of Public Health program as well as the practicum course for its online program. She has also taught in Dartmouth’s Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) and The Dartmouth Institute's online certificate programs. From 2013-2014 she served as national director for the Veteran's Affairs Quality Scholars and chief resident in Quality and Safety programs. She is a member of the leadership team for the International Coproduction of Health Network (ICOHN). Other areas of interest include cognitive simulation, patient safety, effective communication, and encounter-based decision aids. A graduate of University of California San Francisco medical school, she earned an MPH in 1998 from the Harvard School of Public Health and an MS in 2001 from Dartmouth’s Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (now The Dartmouth Institute) while she was a fellow in the Veteran's Affairs Quality Scholars national fellowship program in White River Junction, VT.
Lynn Foster-Johnson, PhD
Assistant Professor
v.lynn.foster-johnson@dartmouth.edu | View Full ProfileDaisy Goodman, DNP, MPH, CNM
Assistant Professor
daisy.j.goodman@dartmouth.edu | Read BioDaisy Goodman, DNP, MPH, CNM, CARN-AP is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and community and family medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine. She also teaches healthcare quality improvement at The Dartmouth Institute. Her clinical background is as a nurse midwife, in which role she has practiced in settings from federally qualified rural health centers to the academic medical center. She also is certified in advanced practice addiction nursing. She received a PhD in nursing practice from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, an MPH from The Dartmouth Institute, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in healthcare improvement through the VA Quality Scholars program. She served as a maternal infant health advisor for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) from 2016-2017 and represented the American College of Nurse Midwives in the development of the Alliance for Innovation in Maternal Health Patient Safety Bundle for the Perinatal Care of Women with Opioid Use Disorders.
Goodman directs women’s health services for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Perinatal Addiction Treatment Program and was one of the first wave of advanced practice nurses in New Hampshire to become a buprenorphine prescriber. Her research and work in quality improvement focus on improving access to treatment for opioid use disorders for pregnant and parenting women through integrated delivery models. She currently leads a three-year initiative to implement best practice in the care of pregnant women with opioid use disorders through the Northern New England Perinatal Quality Improvement Network and a multi-site comparative effectiveness study comparing models of care for medication assisted treatment for pregnant women with opioid use disorders funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
Philip Goodney, MD, MS
Associate Professor
philip.p.goodney@dartmouth.edu | (857) 991-9345 | View Full ProfileChristine Gunn, PhD
Assistant Professor
christine.m.gunn@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5430 | View Full ProfileRobert Holley, EdM
Senior Associate Director of Development, Geisel School of Medicine
robert.d.holley@hitchcock.org | (603) 653-0733 | Read BioRobert “Bob” Holley leads fundraising initiatives at The Dartmouth Institute and collaborates on shared projects within the Joint Development Office to support of the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Hitchcock Health. Prior to joining Dartmouth, Bob served as vice president and chief development officer for several national and international public policy, educational, and public health organizations. He holds a BA from College of The Atlantic, an EdM in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University, and a Certificate in Value Based Health Care from The Dartmouth Institute.
Megan Holthoff, MSHS
Research Project Director
megan.m.holthoff@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5632 | Read BioMegan Holthoff currently serves as a Research Project Director at The Dartmouth Institute supporting the development of learning health systems for the adults with inflammatory bowel disease and people with serious illness. Since 2015, Megan has been working with the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation developing the IBD Qorus learning health system, a quality of care initiative focused on coproducing better health outcomes and high value care for adults with inflammatory bowel disease. She and her team support a mix of 50 academic and private practice IBD clinical teams across the U.S. on the uptake and use of a shared dashboard to support patient and clinician partnerships utilizing quality improvement science methodology.
Megan also is Co-Director of the Promise Partnership, a real world, practical, scalable, prototype of a person-centered, learning health system for coproducing better health care experience, value, and oncology and palliative care delivery science. She leads multiple interdisciplinary care teams in engaging researchers, patients, families, clinicians, and other stakeholders in co-designing tools to achieve better care experiences, higher health care value, and more knowledge on the science of oncology and palliative health care delivery.
She has 19 years of experience in clinical research administration, including project management, data management, regulatory and contracting, human subject protections, and oversight of clinical and behavioral health research to assure compliance with local and federal rules and regulations. Megan earned a BS from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY and a MSHS from George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Karen L. Huyck, MD, MPH, PhD, FACOEM
Assistant Professor
Karen.L.Huyck@Dartmouth.edu | (603) -30-8-2215 | Read BioDr. Karen Huyck, MD, PhD, MPH, FACOEM is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth in the Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and a board-certified OEM physician. She is currently serving as the Medical Director for Vermont RETAIN, a project with the Vermont Department of Labor the aims to increase employment retention and decrease work disability across the state and inform national disability programs and policies. She received her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, completed her MPH in Environmental Health, and completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Environmental Molecular Epidemiology. Her clinical and research work includes management and treatment of complex work injuries, functional assessment and recovery, prevention of work disability, and gene-environment interaction in complex human disease. She is a co-founder of the New England Work Injury Collaborative and a member of the Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology (TREAT) consortium through the The National Institutes of Health Medical Rehabilitation Research Infrastructure Network (MRRIN). Prior to her position at Dartmouth, she worked in diverse OEM settings, including as an on-site physician for biotechnology companies, staff OEM physician, researcher, disability consultant, utilization reviewer, impartial medical examiner, and expert witness.
Lisa Johnson, MBA
Research Project Director
lisa.c.johnson@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5634 | Read BioAs a project director, Lisa Johnson works closely with others at The Dartmouth Institute to adapt and implement a learning health system approach to several chronic disease populations with the goal of optimizing health and health care value for those patient populations. At the core of the model is the patient and clinician partnership for co-producing care. Johnson and others are working to increase involvement of patients (and parents and families) in their care, which is believed to lead to better care experiences, increased likelihood that care plans will be followed, and, ultimately, better health outcomes and value. Johnson has over 20 years of experience in the health care industry, primarily focused in the areas of clinical and population health improvement. She enjoys coaching and advising frontline teams engaged in clinical quality improvement efforts. She holds an MBA from the University of Virginia, where she also obtained her undergraduate degree.
Alice Kennedy, MPH
Research Project Manager
alice.m.kennedy@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5636 | Read BioAlice joined The Dartmouth Institute's coproduction team in June of 2018 as a research project coordinator for IBD Qorus. She became interested in coproduction after hearing Dr. Stephen Bartels speak about his work at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Her interests are in efficiency and impact of care, equity in access to high-quality, high-value care, and learning as much as possible from a global examination of health care systems.
Alice is new to the Upper Valley, having lived most of her life in Philadelphia and the past four years in Louisville, Kentucky. She looks forward to finding ways to become involved in the health of her immediate community as well as working to help The Dartmouth Institute and its partners move our evolving healthcare system forward in an equitable way.
Alice received her BA from New York University and her MPH from the University of Louisville.
Kathryn Kirkland, MD
Professor
kathryn.kirkland@dartmouth.edu | Read BioKathryn B. Kirkland, MD, a professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, with a secondary appointment at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, serves as chief of the section of palliative medicine. She holds the Dorothy and John J. Byrne, Jr, Distinguished Chair in Palliative Medicine. In addition to her leadership role, she is actively engaged in clinical work with patients who are facing serious illness, and in teaching medical students, residents and fellows.
Her primary scholarly interest is in the field of narrative medicine, which focuses on building capacity of clinicians to receive the stories of others, and to use them to ensure that patients receive individualized healthcare that is aligned with their values. She has received grant support from the Mellon and the Gold Foundations for work in medical humanities.
For the first 20 years of her professional career, Kirkland was an infectious disease specialist and healthcare epidemiologist at Dartmouth and at Duke. She has served as vice chair for quality in the department of medicine and as a coach and associate program director for leadership development in the innovative Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency program at Dartmouth.
Kirkland holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MD from Dartmouth Medical School.
Elizabeth Koelsch
Registrar, TDI Graduate Programs
elizabeth.a.koelsch@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5641 |Roland Lamb, MPH
Residential MPH/MS Program Manager
roland.l.b.lamb@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5642 |Christopher Leggett, PhD
Research Programmer/Analyst II
Research Scientist
christopher.g.leggett@dartmouth.edu |JoAnna Leyenaar, MD, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
joanna.k.leyenaar@dartmouth.edu | (603) 653-0855 | View Full ProfileHilary Llewellyn-Thomas, PhD, MSc
Professor Emeritus
hilary.llewellyn-thomas@dartmouth.edu | (802) 649-3507 |Meghan Longacre, PhD
Senior Lecturer
meghan.longacre@dartmouth.edu | (603) 650-1565 | View Full ProfileRobert McLellan, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FAAFP
Professor, Active Emeritus
robert.k.mclellan@dartmouth.edu | View Full ProfileKaty Milligan, PhD, MBA
Program Director, Master of Health Care Delivery Science
katherine.j.milligan@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-1223 | Read BioKaty Milligan has been the director of the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program at Dartmouth College since the program’s founding in 2010. In this role, she has overseen all aspects of the development and administration of the MHCDS program, a collaboration between the faculties of the Tuck School of Business and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. The program is designed for executive-level leaders in health care delivery and was the first degree program in the Ivy League to use blended (online/residential) learning. Milligan is also an adjunct professor at Tuck and teaches the MHCDS Action Learning Project course. In this experiential-learning course, students work in teams to solve strategically significant real-world problems for health care client organizations. Students learn to determine the scope of a project, develop a work plan, conduct primary and secondary research, implement the project, measure its results, and create and deliver an effective presentation. She received an AB from Dartmouth College, a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Tuck.
Manish Mishra, MD, MPH
Lecturer
Interim Director of Student Affairs
Director of Learning Environment
manish.k.mishra@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5645 | View Full ProfileAlbert Mulley, MD, MPP
Professor
albert.g.mulley.jr@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5647 | Read BioAl Mulley is the managing director of the Institute’s Global Health Care Delivery Science Program. The program is dedicated to forging partnerships around the world to build the capabilities essential to achieving sustainable health care economies. Prior to his appointment at Dartmouth, he was at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he served as chief of general medicine for nearly three decades. In the past, his clinical training and research interests have spanned from intensive medical care to the integration of primary care and population health, always with a focus on the quality of decisions made, whether it’s from the frontlines of care to the leadership level of health systems. Mulley is the founding editor of the text, Primary Care Medicine, with the eighth addition currently in preparation. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves as a visiting professor and/or Fellow in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom and China.
He holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an MPP from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
William Nelson, PhD, MDiv
Professor
william.a.nelson@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5648 | View Full ProfileEugene C. Nelson, DSc, MPH
Professor
eugene.c.nelson@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5649 | View Full ProfileSharon O'Connor, MBA, MS
Senior Research Scientist
Associate Director, Center for Program Design and Evaluation
sharon.o'connor@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5651 | Read BioAs a research scientist with the Center for Program Design & Evaluation (CPDE), Sharon O’Connor is an evaluator and project manager with expertise in providing clients with meaningful and actionable results. She is experienced in mixed-methods program evaluation, survey design and analysis, and creating powerful reports that clearly and concisely present and interpret key findings. Working closely with clients and PIs, O’Connor helps shape programs by adding intellectual and research value and providing key input and feedback that allows for mid-stream course corrections and adjustment to the intervention or program content. Instead of just dumping data tables in front of clients and PIs, she analyzes, interprets, and coalesces data from multiple sources to create top-level, digestible, and actionable intelligence that can be used to help a program achieve its goals. O’Connor directs the evaluation plans and activities for several concurrent projects and programs, ranging from 5-year multi-site NIH- and CDC-funded grants to shorter-term federal and state funded programs. She has been an invited speaker at state, regional, and national level conferences, and has contributed to grant applications, funder reports, and publications since helping launch CPDE in 2010. She holds an MS in healthcare research from The Dartmouth Institute, an MBA from Boston University, and a BA cum laude from Simmons College.
Brant Oliver, PhD, MS, MPH, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC
Associate Professor
brant.j.oliver@dartmouth.edu | (603) 653-6869 | View Full ProfileJames O’Malley, PhD
Professor
Peggy Y. Thomson Professor
james.omalley@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5653 | View Full ProfileHonor Passow, PhD, MSME, PE
Lecturer
Director of Academic Affairs
honor.passow@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5654 | Read BioHonor Passow, PhD, teaches research methods, including biostatistics, epidemiology, survey research methods, and technical writing in The Dartmouth Institute’s graduate programs. About half of her research has been at the Institute. Her research experience has spanned a wide array of methods, including interviews (regarding patient decision making), surveys (regarding student cheating and professional competencies among engineers), Medicare administrative data (regarding prostate cancer screening), linked data between Medicare and the Nurses’ Health Study survey (regarding cognitive decline in the elderly), document review (regarding the influence of medical journals’ press releases on the quality of newspaper coverage), experiments (regarding the flow of slurries under vibration), narrative literature synthesis (regarding screening mammography), and systematic literature review (regarding on-the-job competence among engineers and “exnovation”, that is, how physicians reject or abandon an innovation after adopting it). She is a peer reviewer for journals that focus on the education of professionals.
Amanda Perry
Program Manager, Levy Serious Illness Incubator
amanda.n.perry@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5162 |Jared Rhoads, MPH, MS
Instructor
jared.rhoads@dartmouth.edu | Read BioJared Rhoads is an Instructor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice ("TDI"). He co-directs the health policy courses in TDI's MPH program and serves as a mentor for the Integrative Learning Experience. Outside of Dartmouth, he is a Senior Affiliated Scholar with the Mercatus Center, a Washington D.C.-based public policy institute, where he conducts policy research and provides testimony to state legislators. He also runs the national debate program in economics and public policy for the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, in Plymouth, Vermont. His ongoing research interests include attitudes and discourse in health policy. Rhoads holds a BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an MS from Bentley University, and an MPH from Dartmouth.
Jennifer Rickards, MNPL
Director of Operations
jennifer.l.rickards@dartmouth.edu | Read BioJennifer Rickards is an experienced nonprofit leader with more than 25 years of experience in organizational strategy, operations, program development, and fundraising. She joined TDI in 2022 after 15 years at the Montshire Museum of Science.
Catherine H. Saunders, PhD, MPH
Scientist
catherine.hylas.saunders@dartmouth.edu | Read BioKatie is a mixed methods health services researcher focused on making the experience of serious illness better and easier to measure. She works to develop, test, and implement innovations on behalf of patients, care partners, and clinicians. Her research is anchored in the belief that patients and their families are better off when they have a seat at the table and a voice in the discussion. When she isn’t doing science, she is exploring the forests and streams near her home with her husband, two young children, and big shaggy dog.
Karen Schifferdecker, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
karen.e.schifferdecker@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5659 | View Full ProfileKatherine Semple Barta, JD
Research Project Manager
katherine.j.semple.barta@dartmouth.edu | (603) 653-1457 |Lisa Sharp Grady, MPH
Program Specialist
lisa.d.sharp.grady@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5658 | Read BioLisa Sharp Grady is managing the execution of the successful launch and on-going operation of The Dartmouth Institute’s new undergraduate Dartmouth Health Care Foundations and Eric Eichler ’57 Fellowship in Health Care Leadership. She helps create new approaches to health care education so that undergraduate students will be motivated to explore the challenges in healthcare and respond to the new demands of a potential career in healthcare. She works to ensures successful delivery of the on-campus and online programs and facilitates effective and meaningful mentoring relationships between students and faculty mentors. She is the first point of contact about the program and is active in recruiting students and building cross-campus partnerships. Lisa serves on her town's select board, where she is faced with public health issues from the perspectives of environmental health and public safety. Previously, she met the administrative needs of The Preference Laboratory at The Dartmouth Institute, served as a development assistant for the Dartmouth College Fund, and began her career at Dartmouth working as an administrative assistant in the Faculty-Employee Assistance program. Lisa also spent nine years working in financial aid at Antioch University Midwest in Yellow Springs, OH. She earned a BA in management with concentrations in marketing and international management from Antioch University Midwest. She received her Master of Public Health from Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH.
Scott Shimoda
Human Resources and Faculty Affairs Officer
scott.shimoda@dartmouth.edu | View Full ProfileScott Shipman, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
scott.a.shipman@dartmouth.edu | Read BioScott Shipman, MD, MPH, is director of clinical innovations and director of primary care affairs at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Shipman works with a wide range of health system leaders to promote effective innovations in ambulatory care delivery and teaching. A general pediatrician and health services researcher by training, he has studied the health care workforce extensively. He guides AAMC activities promoting emerging high-value ambulatory care models within AMCs and affiliates, with a focus on improving care at the interface of primary care and specialty care. At Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Shipman supports care transformation efforts on a limited basis, including a growing community health worker program and efforts to improve communication, coordination, and efficiency between primary care and specialty care physicians in the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth and its affiliated community practices. He works with online students in the Dartmouth Institute MPH program on their practicum requirement. He received an MD from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, completed a residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins, where he also received his MPH.
Suzanne Shrekgast, MA, MS
Associate Director, Admissions Marketing
suzanne.m.shrekgast@dartmouth.edu | View Full ProfileCorey A. Siegel, MD, MS
Professor
corey.a.siegel@hitchcock.org | Read BioCorey A. Siegel, MD, MS, is the Section Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He is a Professor of Medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Dr. Siegel received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts in 1998. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Dr. Siegel served as chief medical resident at Dartmouth from 2001-2002, where he also completed a fellowship in gastroenterology. From 2004-2005, he completed a fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Siegel’s research interests include understanding risk/benefit tradeoffs in IBD, developing models to predict outcomes in Crohn’s disease, creating tools to facilitate shared decision making, expanding telemedicine services to patients with IBD living in rural locations, and improving the quality of care delivered to patients with IBD. He has been funded by the NIH, AHRQ, the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, and the Helmsley Charitable Trust for this work. He has lectured nationally and internationally, and published numerous journal articles and book chapters on this and other topics in IBD. Dr. Siegel was inducted into the International Organization for the Study of IBD (IOIBD) in 2013. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire with his wife and three boys.
Brenda Sirovich, MD, MS
Associate Professor
brenda.sirovich@dartmouth.edu | Read BioBrenda Sirovich is a general internist, researcher, and educator at The Dartmouth Institute and Geisel School of Medicine.
Jonathan Skinner, PhD
James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Emeritus
jonathan.s.skinner@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-2535 | View Full ProfileRebecca Smith, MS
PhD Student
rebecca.e.smith.gr@dartmouth.edu | Read BioRebecca Smith is part of The Dartmouth Institute’s Comparative Effectiveness Research Program led by Dr. Anna Tosteson. As a Fellow and coordinator, she contributes to multiple projects under a large research portfolio examining how innovations in health care impact health outcomes, cost, and quality of care. She has particular interest in understanding the sources of disparities in care for vulnerable populations including patient, provider, and system level factors, and how those factors may impact decision making. She is currently involved in multiple grants with the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) looking at the effectiveness of breast cancer screening and patient reported outcomes. She also is engaged in the analysis for the U.S. component of The International Costs and Utilities Related to Osteoporotic Fractures Study (ICUROS) comparing costs, and impact of osteoporotic fractures on quality of life and resource utilization. Smith has worked on various research projects under the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth including the InSHAPE study, and a NIAAA sponsored clinical trial. She has held positions as a Global Health Scholar (2015-2016) and Global Health Fellow (2016-2017) both with The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. She earned her MS in health policy and health service research from The Dartmouth Institute in 2017. In 2011, she completed her dual BS in business administration and international affairs at The University of New Hampshire. As an undergraduate, she conducted research abroad at Fudan University in Shanghai China examining the changing structures and regulations for non-governmental organizations in China.
Patrick Stuchlik, PhD
Senior Technical Research Programmer/Analyst
patrick.m.stuchlik@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5536 |Courtney Theroux, MS
Director of Admissions and Operations, TDI Education
courtney.l.theroux@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5662 |Anna N. A. Tosteson, ScD
Professor
James J. Carroll 1948 Professor of Oncology
anna.n.a.tosteson@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5237 | View Full ProfileKaren Trenosky, MAT
Instructional Design and Technology Manager
karen.m.trenosky@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5665 |Aricca Van Citters, MS
Senior Research Scientist
aricca.d.van.citters@Dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5668 | Read BioAricca Van Citters works closely with others at The Dartmouth Institute to co-design, implement, and test learning health systems for people with chronic or serious illness. Her research interests include understanding how learning health systems can enhance patient and clinician partnerships, improve health outcomes, and support the delivery of high value care. She has lead co-design processes and formative evaluations of registry-based learning health system projects that support coproduction of healthcare services for people living with serious illness, adult inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatology conditions, and cystic fibrosis.
Ms. Van Citters has 20 years of experience conducting qualitative and quantitative process and outcomes evaluations in a variety of health care settings. Previous research efforts including understanding factors that contribute to rapid improvement in hospital quality, costs, and mortality; and studying health service interventions for older adults with serious mental illness. She has provided technical assistance to states and organizations implementing evidence-based mental health care for older adults, and coaching to hospitals around methods to improve the patient experience of care. Ms. Van Citters received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Dartmouth College, and a master of science degree from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.
For more information on current work, see: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/coproduction/
Eric Wadsworth, PhD, MBA, CPA
Assistant Professor
eric.b.wadsworth@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-6587 | View Full ProfileJohn Wennberg, MD, MPH
Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Director
Founder
john.e.wennberg@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5669 | View Full ProfileCraig Westling, DrPH, MPH, MS
Executive Director of Education
craig.r.westling@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5671 | View Full ProfileAmanda (Stofesky) Williams, MPH
Associate Director of Admissions
amanda.r.stofesky@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5236 |Steven Woloshin, MD, MS
Professor
steven.woloshin@dartmouth.edu | (603) 646-5672 | View Full ProfileCrystal Young, PhD
Senior Research Analyst
crystal.n.s.young@dartmouth.edu | Read Bio
Dr. Crystal N. Steltenpohl Young is a mixed-methods community psychologist and senior research analyst for the Center for Program Design and Evaluation. She joined CPDE in 2021 and brings 10 years of experience conducting research and evaluations in the areas of aging, education, gaming, and online communities, tobacco cessation, and healthcare. Dr. Young has taught research methodology and statistics for four years and has expertise in project planning and management, open science practices, qualitative data analysis, and strategizing research communication to a variety of audiences. Crystal is involved in a variety of CPDE projects using mixed methods approaches.
An active voice in the open science movement, Dr. Young serves on the executive board for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science and routinely guides labs and departments in exploring qualitative methods, the role researchers play in the research process, and other topics. She has been invited to speak at several organizations, including but not limited to the Riot Science Club, Team Liquid, the University of Utah, the University of Glasgow, the University of California Davis, and the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Dr. Young earned a B.A. in English and psychology from the University of Southern Indiana, MA in applied psychology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a PhD in community psychology from DePaul University. |