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Amy E. Wallace, MD, MPH
Amy E. Wallace, MD, MPH
Director of Substance Abuse Services
White River Junction VAMC
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Amy E. Wallace, MD, MPH completed her undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Chemistry at Willamette University in 1979, graduate studies in Physical Chemistry at Baylor University in 1981, received her MD degree from University of Texas Medical Branch in 1983, and completed her MPH from Dartmouth Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences in 2005.
She completed residency training in Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School from 1987-1991, followed by fellowships in Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, both completed in 1993 at Dartmouth Medical School. She joined the faculty at the WRJ VAMC in 1993 as Director of Substance Abuse Services and is currently Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Director and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School.
Dr. Wallace's major research interests include investigating rural/urban disparities in mental health and mental health care among veterans, and in developing, testing, and implementing novel treatment modalities to bring high quality mental health care to rural veterans. She is currently principal investigator of a four year HSR&D funded IIR entitled: "Telephone care as a substitute for routine psychiatric medication management." Dr. Wallace's HSR&D career development award will allow her to pursue her goal of improving access to and quality of mental health care for rural veterans.
Her mentors include Matthew Friedman, MD, PhD from the National Center for PTSD, WRJ, VT, Robert Drake, MD, PhD from the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Brenda Booth, PhD from the Division of Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, and Gerald O'Connor from Dartmouth Medical School's Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences.
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