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Amber Barnato 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 College. She serves as Department Chair and leads one of the premier health policy research institutes in the United States. Her academic appointments reflect her dual expertise in clinical medicine and health services research.
Dr. Barnato holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, an MPH and BA in Physiology from University of California Berkeley, and an MS in Health Services Research from Stanford University. She is board-certified in general preventative medicine and public health with fellowship training in hospice and palliative medicine.
Her research program focuses on understanding variation in end-of-life intensive care and life-sustaining treatment among seriously ill older adults. She employs diverse methodologies including claims data analysis, participant observation, high-fidelity simulation experiments, and randomized behavioral trials. A significant portion of her work examines how organizational norms, provider-patient communication, and implicit cognition produce racial disparities in end-of-life treatment. Her research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2003.
Dr. Barnato has authored more than 170 peer-reviewed publications and mentored over 70 pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scientists through her Rise Lab. She oversees the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care and is developing the Dartmouth Health Equity Atlas. As past Vice President of the Society for Medical Decision Making, she will co-chair the 2024 SMDM annual meeting at Boston University.
- John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professor
- NIH-funded since 2003
- Principal Investigator of 23+ extramural awards
- Past Vice President, Society for Medical Decision Making
She directs the Rise Lab, which includes research staff, faculty collaborators, and postdoctoral trainees working at the intersection of serious illness care, medical decision-making, and health disparities research. Dr. Barnato also maintains ICUStoryWeb.org, a platform collecting family experiences with life-support decisions in the ICU.
