Paul Barr
Dr. Barr is a Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Biomedical Data Science, and a member of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine. He is trained in quantitative and qualitative methods with substantial funding from NIH and PCORI. His research portfolio includes the development and implementation of measures of shared decision making (SDM), the user-centered design and evaluation of patient-facing interventions to support SDM in individuals with depression, and the communication of medical information to patients and their care partners to optimize self-management. He co-directs the Dartmouth Institute’s Ph.D. program and is the pre-doctoral Director of the T32 Training Program in the Science of Co-occurring Disorders. He leads several classes, including grant writing, centered communication, and ‘The Patient Revolution’: Capturing the Patient Voice in Healthcare Policy and Research.
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.
Martha Bruce, PhD, MPH
T32 Mentor
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.
Madelyn Frumkin, PhD
T32 Mentor
Madelyn (Maddy) Frumkin, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Psychiatry in the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health. She is a clinical health psychologist specializing in chronic and perioperative pain. Much of her current research involves leveraging data from smartphones and wearable devices to improve prediction of which patients experience persistent pain, mental health problems, and/or opioid use after surgery. She is also interested in development and evaluation of scalable mental health interventions that increase access to evidence-based psychotherapies in medical contexts.
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.
Margaret Karagas, PhD
T32 Mentor
Margaret R. Karagas, PhD, is the inaugural Chair and James W. Squires Professor of Epidemiology at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, where she also serves as Professor of Community and Family Medicine. She directs the Centers for Molecular Epidemiology and Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research at Dartmouth, leading interdisciplinary studies on environmental exposures and their health impacts from infancy through adulthood. Dr. Karagas co-established Dartmouth's Quantitative Biomedical Sciences program, integrating epidemiology, bioinformatics, and biostatistics to train diverse investigators. Her research has influenced policy changes by uncovering health effects of environmental contaminants, particularly in under-studied rural populations.
Sarah Lord, PhD
Sarah Lord, PhD, is a clinical-developmental psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Biomedical Data Sciences, and Pediatrics at Geisel School of Medicine, and a member of the leadership team of the Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science. Her research focuses on developing, evaluating, and implementing evidence-based treatments for substance use and mental health conditions, with an emphasis on digital technologies and diverse systems of care, including current projects focused on opioid use disorder, maternal health, and community resource linkages. As a clinician-researcher with industry experience, Dr. Lord brings a stakeholder-centered implementation science and community engagement perspective to her work.
Lisa A. Marsch, PhD
T32 Mentor
Lisa A. Marsch, PhD, is Director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and Professor of Psychiatry. Her research focuses on development and evaluation of technology-based therapeutic tools for health behavior, as well as on identification and treatment of substance use disorders in primary care. She has served/serves as PI on numerous NIH-funded grants and has mentored >28 early-career investigators.
Sarah Pratt, PhD
T32 Mentor
Sarah I. Pratt, PhD, (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.
Susan Roberts, PhD
T32 Mentor
Susan Roberts, PhD, is an experienced scientific administrator and clinical trialist who currently leads the NIH POWERS consortium, a discovery science initiative including biological, psychological, sociocultural determinants of health and weight management using questionnaires, remote data collection from wearables and intensive physiological studies. She was previously site PI for the NIH CALERIE consortium and worksite wellness interventions with a strong community engagement focus and dietary, physical activity, and weight management intervention and outcome components. She is a Professor of epidemiology and medicine, and Senior Associate Dean for Foundational Research at Geisel, and was previously co-director of the Tufts Institute for Global Obesity Research. She is also an experienced scientific and public communicator and mentor for trainees and junior faculty.
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.
Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH
Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH, is Chief Research Officer for Dartmouth Health (Interim) and Professor of Medicine as well as Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine. His work focuses on improving conversations around serious illness, aging, and end of life care – an area he believes is critical for both patients and healthcare systems. He integrates clinical care, research, and policy to advance patient center decision-making through innovative interventions. He has mentored 37 developing researchers, many of whom have developed independent research careers.