Dartmouth Healthcare Foundations faculty like ER physician Matthew Babineau bring their real-world leadership experiences to the classroom as students explore linkages between the humanities, social sciences, public health, and medicine.
Featured Faculty
Students are taught by leaders from the humanities, social sciences, public health, and medicine. These are only a few of the people you may encounter.
Glyn Elwyn, BA, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCGP, is very involved with the Dartmouth Healthcare 
Foundations students and frequently leads workshops for our student population. He has recently started a new podcast that he is excited to share with our community, and with good reason. As a global leader in healthcare improvement, he is singularly positioned to effectively lead this discussion about healthcare innovations and improvements being made right now!
Elwyn is a clinician and researcher. He is a tenured professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in the USA. He has visiting chairs at Radboud University Nijmegen, University College London, UK, and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Glyn Elwyn studies coproduction and shared decision-making in the context of learning healthcare systems, as well as the application of machine learning to digital recordings of clinical encounters. Google Scholar Profile. He developed Option Grid TM patient decision aids, evidence-based tools that help people choose the care that suits them best.
He has developed the following measures: Observer OPTION and collaboRATE, measures of shared decision making, integRATE (care integration), and consideRATE (care for those with serious illness). He is the lead editor of the Oxford University Textbook of Shared Decision Making: Evidence-Based Patient Choice, 4th edition, scheduled for 2025.
Unleashed. Redesigning Healthcare. Unleashed is the podcast that challenges every clinician listening to ask themselves…What would I do if I were unleashed? What would I do if I could reinvent care from scratch? Students and early-career professionals will learn from the established innovators in healthcare.
It's your call. This Substack is about 'you, your doctor, and AI' - working in perfect harmony.
Joan Marston has a background in Nursing and Social Science, working in the 
field of hospice and palliative care for the past 32 years at local, national, and global levels. She is the Paediatric Palliative Care Manager for the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa and continues to support Sunflower Children's Hospice and is the Vice-Chair of PatchSA, the national network for Palliative Care for Children in South Africa.
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Dr. Christine Montross, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at 
the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
She is a practicing inpatient psychiatrist and performs forensic psychiatric examinations. Dr. Montross's first book, Body of Work, was named an Editors' Choice by The New York Times and one of The Washington Post's best nonfiction books of 2007. Her second book, Falling Into the Fire, was named a New Yorker Book to Watch Out For. Her latest book, Waiting for an Echo, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.