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Office
1 Medical Center Dr # Dhmc
Lebanon, NH 03756Phone+1 603-650-5402
Summary
- Amber E. Barnato, MD, MPH, MS is the John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She is trained in two medical specialties, public health and preventive medicine and hospice and palliative medicine. Her research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of variation in end-of-life intensive care unit (ICU) and life-sustaining treatment use among seriously ill older adults using an array of scientific methods, including claims data analysis, participant observation and interviewing, high-fidelity simulation experiments, and randomized behavioral trials. Her work increasingly focuses on the interplay between organizational norms, provider-patient communication, and implicit cognition, and how these phenomena produce racial disparities in end-of-life treatment. Dr. Barnato has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2003, has been the Principal Investigator or Project Leader of more than 23 extramurally-funded awards, authored more than 170 peer-reviewed publications, and mentored more than 70 pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scientists. Her academic program development work focuses on early career development for clinician-scientists, including establishing and directing the Clinical Scientist Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh and founding the Dartmouth Health Equity Research Pathways Program at Dartmouth. She is the past Vice President of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) and will co-chair the 2024 SMDM annual meeting at Boston University. In addition to her academic work, she collects and shares stories from diverse family members regarding their experiences making life-support decisions for patients in the ICU (ICUStoryWeb.org).
Education & Training
- Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1994
Certifications & Licensure
- NH State Medical License 2019 - 2025
- PA State Medical License 2001 - 2021
- MA State Medical License 2018 - 2018
- VT State Medical License 2018 - 2018
- CA State Medical License 1996 - 2015
- American Board of Preventive Medicine Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
Clinical Trials
- Variation in Cancer Centers' End-of-Life Quality Start of enrollment: 2019 Jul 05
- Nudging Healthcare Organizations to Adopt New Care Delivery Practices Start of enrollment: 2019 Dec 09
- EFFICACY: Hopewell Hospitalist: A Video Game Intervention to Increase Advance Care Planning by Hospitalists Start of enrollment: 2020 Jul 01
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 802 citationsUse of intensive care at the end of life in the United States: an epidemiologic study.Derek C. Angus, Amber E. Barnato, Walter T. Linde-Zwirble, Lisa A. Weissfeld, R. Scott Watson
Critical Care Medicine. 2004-02-28 - 10 citationsToward a Conceptual Model of Affective Predictions in Palliative Care.Erin M. Ellis, Amber E. Barnato, Gretchen B. Chapman, J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Jennifer S. Lerner
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2019-06-01 - 65 citationsHow family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer assist with upstream healthcare decision-making: A qualitative study.J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Deborah Ejem, Rachel Wells, Amber E. Barnato, Richard A. Taylor
Plos One. 2019-03-13
Journal Articles
- Serious Games May Improve Physician Heuristics in Trauma TriageMatthew R Rosengart, Donald M Yealy, Derek C Angus, Deepika Mohan, Amber E Barnato, David J Wallace, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Press Mentions
- How Common Are Advanced Care Planning Conversations with Hospitalized, Older Patients?April 1st, 2019
- Surgery near the End of Life Is Common, Costly — and Often Not What Patients WantFebruary 28th, 2018
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