What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato (February 9, 2023)
Amber Barnato is an expert in simulation studies. A health services researcher and palliative care physician, Amber lauds the ability of simulation studies to isolate one variable in a study. For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer.
Her Story 78: End-of-Life Care: Doing What’s Right for Patients (August 31, 2022)
Meet Amber Barnato, M.D.: Amber Barnato, M.D. is the John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professor and the Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She is trained in two medical specialties, public health and preventive medicine, and hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Barnato received a bachelor’s from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, an MPH from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MS from Stanford University.
Amber Barnato, MD, MPH, MS, Named Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (June 15, 2021)
Physician-researcher Amber Barnato, MD, MPH, MS, the Susan J. and Richard M. Levy Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery, has been named the new director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI). The appointment was announced today by Duane Compton, PhD, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and Joanne M. Conroy MD, CEO and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. Barnato will begin her new role on July 1, 2021.
How I Helped My Dad Die (January 27, 2021)
I was finishing up breakfast in New York when my dad sent me a text message. He was ready to die, and he needed me to help. The request left me shaken, but that’s different than saying it came as a shock. I’d begun to grasp that something was really wrong 10 months before, in May 2019, when he’d come to California from Maine.
[Amber Barnato is interviewed in Op Ed by Bloomberg Businessweek]
U.S. hospital admissions for non-COVID-19 have only partially rebounded from initial decline (September 25, 2020)
While declines in U.S. hospital admissions during the onset of COVID-19 has been well-documented, little is known about how admissions during the rebound varied by age, insurance coverage and socioeconomic groups. The decline in non-COVID-19 admissions was similar across all demographic subgroups but the partial rebound that followed shows that non-COVID-19 admissions for residents from Hispanic neighborhoods was significantly lower than for other groups.
[Article in Science Daily co-written by Amber Barnato]
The term ‘do not resuscitate’ should be laid to rest (May 5, 2019)
Every year or so there is a story in the news about a hospital being sued for failing to intervene or, alternately, for wrongfully intervening to resuscitate a patient using advanced life support. As experts in end-of-life communication and decision making, we are sometimes interviewed by the press about such cases.
[Op Ed in The Hill by Amber Barnato and Maxwell Vergo]
Never Too Late To Operate? Surgery Near End Of Life Is Common, Costly (February 28, 2018)
At 87, Maxine Stanich cared more about improving the quality of her life than prolonging it. She suffered from a long list of health problems, including heart failure and chronic lung disease that could leave her gasping for breath. When her time came, she wanted to die a natural death, Stanich told her daughter, and signed a “do not resuscitate” directive, or DNR, ordering doctors not to revive her should her heart stop.
[Amber Barnato is interviewed in article by The Washington Post]