Core faculty of the Palliative Care Fellowship are involved in the majority of fellow training, and are board-certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
We are fortunate to have strong institutional support and have a spectrum of associated faculty from within our own interdisciplinary palliative care team or other primary disciplines that help enrich the fellowship experience by mentoring electives or participating in didactic sessions.
Program leadership
- Kathryn B. Kirkland, MD (Section Chief and Director, Palliative Medicine, Dorothy and John J. Byrne, Jr Distinguished Professor of Palliative Medicine)
- Maxwell T. Vergo, MD, FAAHPM (Director of Palliative Medicine Education, Program Director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship)
- Lisa A. Stephens, APRN, MSN (Associate Program Director of the Interprofessional Fellowship Program and Lead Nurse Practitioner)
- Jonathan Jolin, MD (Associate Physician Program Director, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/VA Palliative Care Clinician)
Faculty
- Christopher Ahern, DO
- Amber E. Barnato, MD, MPH, MS (Director, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Susan J and Richard M Levy 1960 Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery at The Dartmouth Institute, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Palliative Care Physician)
- Kathleen Broglio, APRN, DNP, ANP-BC, ACHPN, CPE, FPCN (Lead Faculty, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Palliative Care Regional ECHO series; Outpatient Clinician managing co-morbid substance use disorder)
- Mary Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Byrnes, LICSW (Inpatient Licensed medical Social Worker and Continuing Care Manager)
- Amelia M. Cullinan, MD (Medical Director, Outpatient Palliative Medicine Services)
- Sarah Durante, MD (Combined PM and R/HPM Faculty)
- Margaret “Mati” Engel (Palliative Care Team Chaplain)
- Emily Kobin, MD
- Robin Larson, MD, MPH
- Meredith A. MacMartin, MD (Medical Director, Inpatient Palliative Medicine Services and Jack Byrne Center for Palliative & Hospice Care)
- Anne E. Malin, PhD, MSW (Inpatient Medical Social Worker and Continuing Care Manager)
- Ember Moore, MSN, AGACNP-BC, APRN
- Gayle Robertson, MA (Palliative Care Team Chaplain)
- Alexandra C. ’Sasha’ Steinbaugh, MSW (Continuing Care Manager)
- Charles Whang, MD
- Shana Wierchowski, MD
- Matthew M. Wilson, MD (Director of Outpatient Patient Care at the White River Junction VA)