Paul Barr, PhD, MSc

Assistant Professor

The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Dr. Barr is an Associate Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Biomedical Data Science, and a member of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine. He is trained in quantitative and qualitative methods with substantial funding from NIH and PCORI. His research portfolio includes the development and implementation of measures of shared decision making (SDM), the user-centered design and evaluation of patient-facing interventions to support SDM in individuals with depression, and the communication of medical information to patients and their care partners to optimize self-management. 

In 2015, Dr. Barr formed the OpenRecordings group, a multidisciplinary group of researchers, clinicians, and patients to evaluate the potential clinical utility of audio/video recordings of healthcare visits. He developed novel software, HealthPAL, a comprehensive audio/video personal health library that supports sharing clinic visit recordings with patients and applies natural language processing to automatically identify key information in the visit. His group leads several large clinical trials across the United States and has published its work in high-impact journals, including the NEJM AI, BMJ, and JAMA.

Dr. Barr is a dedicated teacher and mentor. He co-directs the Dartmouth Institute’s Ph.D. program and is the pre-doctoral Director of the T32 Training Program in the Science of Co-occurring Disorders. He leads several classes, including grant writing, centered communication, and ‘The Patient Revolution’: Capturing the Patient Voice in Healthcare Policy and Research.

Outside of work, he can be found chasing his two children up mountains and trying to keep up with them as they ski back down, coaching soccer in Lebanon, NH, teaching science at Mount Lebanon Elementary school as part of the Four Winds program and making furniture in the Dartmouth Woodshop.

TDI Page
https://tdi.dartmouth.edu/about/our-people/directory/paul-barr

Email
Paul.J.Barr@dartmouth.edu