Meredith A MacMartin, MD, MS
Title(s)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Director of Inpatient Clinical Services for Palliative Care
Medical Director, Jack Byrne Center for Palliative & Hospice Care
Department(s)
Medicine
The Dartmouth Institute
Education
2017-2019 MS in Healthcare Research
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
2011-2012 Fellow, Palliative Medicine
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
2010-2011 Chief Resident, Internal Medicine
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
2007-2010 Internal Medicine Internship/Residency
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
2007 M.D.
Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
2002 B.S. Biology
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Programs
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Websites
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Contact Information
1 Medical Center Drive
Section of Palliative Care
Lebanon NH 03756
Office: 6036505402
Email: Meredith.MacMartin@Dartmouth.edu
Professional Interests
Quality Improvement
Primary and Specialty Palliative Care Communication Training
Qualitative Research
Social Media in Healthcare
Grant Information
Kornfeld Scholar, National Palliative Care Research Center (July 2022-June 2024)
Completed:
1. National Institute on Aging (P01AG01978): Causes and Consequences of Healthcare Efficiency: Physician Cognition, Inpatient Advance Care Planning, and Outcomes for Seriously Ill Older Adults
2.National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) via Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Science Institute (UL1TR001086), Clinical Research Fellow: Identifying Components of Palliative Care in Clinical Documentation
3. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Palliative Care Learning Health System Incubator
Biography
Meredith is a NH native, who left New England for college and medical school at William and Mary, and Wake Forest University. She returned to NH for residency in Internal Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where she additionally served as a chief resident. She completed fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at DHMC and then joined the faculty. In 2019 she completed a Master's degree in healthcare research methods. She serves as the director of inpatient clinical services for the section of palliative care, and as the medical director for the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative & Hospice Care. Her research interests include understanding the "mechanism of action" of palliative care - how is it that palliative care is able to improve outcomes for patients and families?
Selected Publications |
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Palliative Care Fellowship Training: Are We Training Fellows for Where the Field Is Going? (with Apologies to Wayne Gretzy). Psychometric assessment of the consideRATE questions, a new measure of serious illness experience, with an online simulation study. Development of an Abstraction Tool to Assess Palliative Care Components. Development of a theory-based video-game intervention to increase advance care planning conversations by healthcare providers. User-Centered Design of the consideRATE Questions, a Measure of People's Experiences When They Are Seriously Ill. Acceptability and Impact of a Required Palliative Care Rotation with Prerotation and Postrotation Observed Simulated Clinical Experience during Internal Medicine Residency Training on Primary Palliative Communication Skills. |