Center Leadership
Sarah Lord, PhD
Sarah Lord, PhD
Director, Dissemination & Implementation Core
Sarah Lord, PhD, is a clinical-developmental psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Biomedical Data Sciences, and Pediatrics at Geisel School of Medicine. Dr. Lord is also part of the leadership team of the recently established Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science (Director: Jeremiah Brown, PhD, Epidemiology). Dr. Lord’s research focuses on development, evaluation, and implementation of evidence-based approaches to treatment of substance use and mental health conditions, with particular focus on leveraging digital technologies as platforms for implementation in diverse systems of care. Current projects include a comparative effectiveness study of medication treatment for opioid use disorder delivered in the context of maternity care (integrated) versus specialty care (Referral) on outcomes for women and infants (PCORI), a study to develop and evaluate a yoga-mindfulness intervention for pregnant women with opioid use disorder (NCCIH), and an implementation study to adapt a digital decisional support tool and care management platform for supported employment to facilitate linkages to community resources for individuals with serious psychiatric and co-occurring substance use disorders (NIDILRR). As a clinician-researcher with a background in industry, Dr. Lord brings a stakeholder-centered implementation science and community engagement perspective to her work.
In her free time, she enjoys cooking with family and friends, yoga, kayaking, skiing, hiking, and dancing and singing just about anywhere.
Selected Publications
- Knapp AA, Allan NP, Cloutier R, Blumenthal H, Moradi S, Budney AJ, Lord SE. Effects of anxiety sensitivity on cannabis, alcohol, and nicotine use among adolescents: Evaluating pathways through anxiety, withdrawal symptoms, and coping motives. J Behav Med. 2021 Apr;44(2):187-201. doi: 10.1007/s10865-020-00182-x. PMID: 32980966; PMCID: PMC7965231. View Source
- Lord S, Seavey K, Budney AJ, Marsch LA. Digitally delivered therapies. In: Brady K, Levin FR, Galanter M, Kleber HD, editors. The American Psychiatric Press textbook of substance abuse treatment. 6th edition. American Psychiatric Association; 2021. p. 435-447. View Source
- Mishra V, Pope G, Lord S, Lewia S, Lowens B, Caine K, Sen S, Halter R, Kotz D. Continuous detection of physiological stress with commodity hardware. ACM Trans Comput Healthc. 2020 Apr;1(2):8. doi: 10.1145/3361562. PMID: 32832933; PMCID: PMC7442214. View Source
- Budney AJ, Marsch LA, Aklin WM, Borodovsky JT, Brunette MF, Campbell A, Dallery J, Kotz D, Knapp AA, Lord SE, Nunes EV, Scherer EA, Stanger C, Torrey WC. Workshop on the development and evaluation of digital therapeutics for health behavior change: Science, methods, and projects. JMIR Ment Health. 2020 Feb 26;7(2):e16751. doi: 10.2196/16751.PMID: 32130155. View Source
- Brunette MF, Ferron JC, Geiger P, Guarino S, Pratt SI, Lord SE, Aschbrenner KA, Adachi-Mejia A. Pilot study of a mobile smoking cessation intervention for low-income smokers with serious mental illness. Journal of Smoking Cessation. Cambridge University Press; 2019;14(4):203–210. View Source
- Lord SE, Seavey KM, Oren SD, Budney AJ, Marsch LA. Digital presence of a research center as a research dissemination platform: Reach and resources. JMIR Ment Health. 2019 Apr 5;6(4):e11686. doi: 10.2196/11686. PMID: 30950800. View Source
- Budney, AJ, Bodorosky, JT, Marsch, LA, Lord, SE. Technical innovations in addiction treatment. In Danovitch I, Mooney L, editors. The assessment and treatment of addiction: Best practices and new frontiers. St. Louis: Elsevier; 2019. p. 75-90. View Source
- Kotz D, Lord SE, O'Malley AJ, Stark L, Marsch LA. Workshop on emerging technology and data analytics for behavioral health. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018 Jun 20;7(6):e158. doi: 10.2196/resprot.9589. PMID: 29925493. View Source
- Pope GC, Mishra V, Lewia S, Lowens B, Kotz D, Lord S, Halter R. An ultra-low resource wearable EDA sensor using wavelet compression. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), pages 193-196, March 2018. doi: 10.1109/BSN.2018.8329691. View Source
- Mishra V, Lowens B, Lord S, Caine K, and Kotz D. Investigating contextual cues as indicators for EMA delivery. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Smart & Ambient Notification and Attention Management (UbiTtention). 2017: 935-40. DOI 10.1145/3123024.3124571. View Source
- Hester J, Peters T, Yun T, Peterson R, Skinner J, Golla B, Storer K, Hearndon S, Freeman K, Lord S, Halter R, Kotz D, et al. Amulet: An energy-efficient, multi-application wearable platform. Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems CD-ROM; Stanford, CA, USA. 2994554: ACM; 2016. p. 216-29. View Source
- Lord SE, Moore SK, Ramsey A, Dinauer S, Johnson K. Implementation of a substance use recovery support mobile application in community settings: Qualitative study of clinician and staff perspectives of facilitators and barriers. JMIR Mental Health. 2016;3(2):e24. PMCID: PMC4942682. View Source
- Nicholson J, Carpenter-Song EA, MacPherson LH, Tauscher JS, Burns TC, Lord SE. Developing the WorkingWell mobile app to promote job tenure for individuals with serious mental illnesses. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 2017;40(3):276-82. PMID:27322395. View Source
- Ramsey A, Lord S, Torrey J, Marsch L, Lardiere M. Paving the way to successful implementation: Identifying key barriers to use of technology-based therapeutic tools for behavioral health care. J Behav Health Serv Res. 2016 Jan;43(1):54-70. doi: 10.1007/s11414-014-9436-5. PMID: 25192755; PMCID: PMC4362852. View Source
- Haim S, Wang R, Lord S, Loeb L, Zhou X, Campbell A. The mobile photographic stress meter (MPSM): A new way to measure stress using images. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 733-742). 2015 Sept. ACM. View Source
- Marsch LA, Lord S. Applying technology to the assessment, prevention, treatment, and recovery support of substance use disorders. In: el-Guebaly N, Carra G, Galanter M, editors. Textbook of addiction treatment: international perspectives. New York: Springer; 2015. p. 1085-1092. View Source
- Lord S. Models for effective dissemination and implementation of technology-based approaches to behavioral health care. In Marsch L, Lord S, Dallery J. (Eds). Behavioral health care and technology: using science-based innovations to transform practice. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. View Source
- Green T, Bowman S, Ray M, McKenzie M, Lord SE, Rich J. Development of an incarceration-specific overdose prevention video: Staying alive on the outside. Health Education Journal, 2014 September, 1-11. View Source