Meredith A MacMartin, MD, MS
Title(s)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
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: 6033082400
Email: Meredith.MacMartin@Dartmouth.edu
Professional Interests
Quality Improvement
Primary and Specialty Palliative Care Communication Training
Qualitative Research
Decision Making+
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 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?
The role of specialty palliative care interdisciplinary team members in acute care decision support: a qualitative study protocol. 'The burden of wanting to make it right': thematic analysis of semistructured interviews to explore experiences of planning for crisis standards of care and ventilator allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA. Using a Video Game Intervention to Increase Hospitalists' Advance Care Planning Conversations with Older Adults: a Stepped Wedge Randomized Clinical Trial. "It helps us say what's important..." Developing Serious Illness Topics: A clinical visit agenda-setting tool. Association Between Opening a Palliative Care Unit and Hospital Care for Patients With Serious Illness. 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. Videogame intervention to increase advance care planning conversations by hospitalists with older adults: study protocol for a stepped-wedge clinical trial. |
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