Faculty Affiliates
Kelly Aschbrenner, PhD
Kelly Aschbrenner, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College; Director of Research at New Hampshire Hospital
Kelly Aschbrenner is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Senior Scientist in the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System, and the Director of Research at New Hampshire Hospital. Broadly, her research focuses on the development, evaluation and implementation of evidence-based practices to improve the health and quality of life of individuals living with serious mental illness. Dr. Aschbrenner’s work involves a unique blend of intervention research, community-engagement, digital health technologies, mixed methods research, and implementation science. Her current projects include an NIMH-funded effectiveness study of a peer support and digital health technology intervention to address cardiovascular risk among young adults with serious mental illness, including major depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in community mental health clinics and a statewide stakeholder planning project to implement an evidence-based intervention for first episode psychosis.
As an applied mental health services researcher, Dr. Aschbrenner is driven to find ways to adapt evidence-based interventions for better fit within routine care delivery settings while maintaining fidelity to the core functions that make interventions effective. She uses implementation science methodologies and frameworks to guide this work.
Dr. Aschbrenner is an active and dedicated research mentor, mentoring new investigators both locally and nationally. She serves as a consultant to scholars in the NIH-funded Mixed Methods Research Training Program for the Health Sciences.
Dr. Aschbrenner is a standing member of the NIMH’s Mental Health Services Research Committee (SERV) study section.
In her free time, Dr. Aschbrenner enjoys running, hiking, and indulging in home remodeling shows.
Selected Publications
- Naslund JA, Bondre A, Torous J, Aschbrenner KA. Social Media and mental health: Benefits, risks, and opportunities for research and practice. J Technol Behav Sci. 2020 Sep;5(3):245-257. doi: 10.1007/s41347-020-00134-x. PMID: 33415185; PMCID: PMC7785056. View Source
- Aschbrenner KA, Bond GR, Pratt SI, Jue K, Williams G, Banerjee S, Bartels, SJ. Evaluating agency-led adaptions to an evidence-based lifestyle intervention for adults with serious mental illness. Implementation Research and Practice. 2020 August. View Source
- Aschbrenner KA, Pratt SI, Bond GR, Zubkoff L, Naslund JA, Jue K, Williams G, Kinney A, Cohen MJ, Godfrey MM, Bartels, SJ. A virtual learning collaborative to implement health promotion in routine mental health settings: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial. Contemp Clin Trials 2019 Sep;84:105816. PMID: 31344520. View Source
- Aschbrenner KA, Naslund JA, Tomlinson EF, Kinney A, Pratt SI, Brunette MF. Adolescents' use of digital technologies and preferences for mobile health coaching in public mental health settings. Front Public Health. 2019 Jul 2;7:178. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00178. PMID: 31312629; PMCID: PMC6614191. View Source
- Aschbrenner KA, Naslund JA, Gorin AA, Mueser KT, Scherer EA, Viron M, Kinney A, Bartels SJ. Peer support and mobile health technology targeting obesity-related cardiovascular risk in young adults with serious mental illness: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2018 Oct 11. pii: S1551-7144(18)30454-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2018.10.005. PMID: 30316998. View Source
- Aschbrenner KA, Bobak C, Schneider EJ, Naslund JA, Brunette MF, O'Malley AJ. Egocentric social networks and smoking among adults with serious mental illness. Transl Behav Med. 2018 Jul 17;8(4):531-539. doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibx014. PMID: 30016519. View Source