May 14, 2021
Sarah Lord, PhD
Director, Dissemination & Implementation Core
Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
Daisy Goodman, CNM, DNP, MPH
Director of Women’s Health Services
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Perinatal Addiction Program
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Deborah Johnson, MHA
Research Scientist
Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth CO-OP Primary Care Practice-based Research Network
About the Presentation: Community-based participatory research can lend critical contributions to the research process, improving relevance of research and producing stronger results that have greater practical impact. In this presentation we describe how participatory methods have been utilized in a large observational comparative effectiveness study of different delivery models of medication treatment for pregnant women with opioid use conditions throughout northern New England. The presentation will highlight how participatory research can inform stakeholders about best practice and local barriers to care and empower persons with lived experience through participation and advocacy.
About the Presenters: Sarah Lord, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, and director of the Dissemination and Implementation Core of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH), a NIDA-supported P30 Center of Excellence at Geisel. Dr. Lord has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Education, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Recent projects include a feasibility pilot of a wearable sensor system to detect stress, assessment of readiness of rural primary care providers and patients to adopt digital therapeutic approaches for patient substance use and mental health needs, and an implementation study of a digital care management platform to facilitate supported employment in four community mental health systems. Current initiatives include a large multisite four-year observational comparative effectiveness study of optimal models of medication-assisted treatment for pregnant women with opioid use disorders in rural northern New England, a three-year study to develop and evaluate efficacy of a yoga- mindfulness intervention for pregnant women with opioid use disorder, and a three-year project to adapt a digital care management platform to facilitate implementation of Assertive Community Treatment to individuals with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use conditions.
Daisy Goodman, DNP, MPH, APRN, CNM is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Her clinical background is in women’s health, midwifery, and addiction nursing. She completed her clinical training as a midwife and women’s health nurse practitioner at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing, a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, a Masters in Public Health from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in healthcare quality improvement through the Veteran’s Administration Quality Scholars (VAQS) Program. She currently directs women’s health services at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Moms in Recovery Program, and teaches healthcare quality improvement at The Dartmouth Institute. Dr. Goodman was one of the first wave of advanced practice nurses in New Hampshire to obtain a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine. Her research focuses on improving access to substance use treatment for women through integrated delivery models, the intersection between women’s health care and treatment for substance use, and the comparative effectiveness of integrated care models for women with substance use disorders.
Deborah Johnson, MHA is a Research Scientist at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College & Dartmouth CO-OP Primary Care Practice-based Research Network. She came to CTBH after having worked over 30 years with the Dartmouth CO-OP Primary Care Practice-based Research Network, at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, as the Executive Director and Research Scientist. At CTBH, Debbie is also the Project Director of the active project, Moms in Recovery (MORE): Defining optimal care for pregnant women and infants. Over the years, she has worked on many research studies, quality improvement initiatives, and educational projects. Recent topic areas included: teen mental health, arsenic in well water, teen stress and anxiety, VA dual care, adverse childhood experiences, social determinants of health needs, carbon monoxide poisoning, and the Medicare Annual Wellness visit.