NACDA Podcast 23 - Dr. Paul J. Barr and leveraging audio/video recordings to improve patient care
March 19, 2026
This 30-minute podcast features Dr. Paul J. Barr:
- Paul is a Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Biomedical Data Science, and a Center for Technology and Behavioral Health member at Geisel School of Medicine. He is trained in quantitative and qualitative methods.
- His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (including NIA, NCI, NLM, and NIDA), the Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) and private foundations. His research portfolio includes developing and implementing 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 promote self-management.
- His methodological expertise includes clinical trials, user-centered design, survey and digital intervention development, AI applications in healthcare and community-based participatory research. He is the founder and lead researcher of the www.openrecordings.org research group, based at the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College.
Resources mentioned in this podcast:
- Dr. Paul Barr’s profile
- www.openrecordings.org
- Paper with Glyn Elwyn and Mary Castaldo
- The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth (Geisel School of Medicine)
- Dr. Sigall Bell
- Dr. Maka Tsulukidze
- Dr. Hugh R. Butt
- Dr. Thomas Hack
- Paper with Dr. Kerri Cavanaugh and Dr. Meredith C Masel
- Dr. Martha (Marty) L. Bruce — mentorship award
- Dr. Joshua Chodosh