Aricca Van Citters, MS

Senior Research Scientist

The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Aricca Van Citters works closely with others at The Dartmouth Institute to co-design, implement, and test learning health systems for people with chronic or serious illness. Her research interests include understanding how learning health systems can enhance patient and clinician partnerships, improve health outcomes, and support the delivery of high value care. She has a particular interest in supporting communication between healthcare professionals and people with chronic or serious illness, with research projects focused on the sharing and visualization of patient-reported and clinical data. She has led co-design processes and formative evaluations of registry-based learning health system projects that support coproduction of healthcare services for people living with serious illness, adult inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatology conditions, cystic fibrosis, and other complex chronic illnesses.

Ms. Van Citters has more than 20 years of experience conducting qualitative and quantitative process and outcomes evaluations in a variety of healthcare settings. Previous research efforts include understanding factors that contribute to rapid improvement in hospital quality, costs, and mortality; and studying health service interventions for older adults with serious mental illness. Ms. Van Citters received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Dartmouth College and a master of science degree in evaluative clinical science from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

Email
aricca.van.citters@dartmouth.edu

ORCiD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2961-5661