Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Dartmouth
Concord, New Hampshire
A clinical psychologist by training, Dr. Sarah Pratt is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth and Director of the Center for Collaborative Mental Health Research. She has 24 years of experience developing interventions to enhance the lives of people with serious mental illness (SMI) and evaluating them in large, federally-funded research studies. This work began with creation of a group-based skills training intervention for older people with SMI targeting social, community, and physical health self-management skills (HOPES), as well as an illness self-management training program for older people with SMI, Integrated Illness Management and Recovery (IIMR). This curriculum teaches people how mental and physical illnesses are related and how to manage them better together. Dr. Pratt has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on multiple large clinical trials and is a nationally recognized expert in this area, providing trainings to community mental health staff around the country and publishing findings of her research in many professional journals. She also has an established line of research on interventions she has developed to address obesity and tobacco dependence in people with SMI. Dr. Pratt has partnerships with >25 community mental health centers around the country that serve as sites for her studies and provide advice on important areas of focus for her research. Her dedicated research team at her Center, including Assistant Director Meghan Santos, MSW, LICSW, have a combined 70 years of experience working with her.
E14 - Integrated Illness Self-management and Recovery (I-IMR)
Monday, May 5, 2025
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM ET