Our Clinicians...

Dominic Candido, Ph.D., ACT, the Director of Hanover Psychiatry, is a licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School.  He is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, the premier international body of recognition in the field, and Certified Cognitive Therapist, one of only two in all of New Hampshire and Vermont.  He was the founder and long-time Director of the Long Island Center for Cognitive Therapy.  Having originally trained under Aaron Beck, M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, Robert Leahy, Ph.D. at the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy and David Barlow, Ph.D. at the University at Albany, he is an expert in the application of cognitive therapy to anxiety and mood disorders.  

 

He has extensive experience teaching and supervising cognitive therapists as well as an Instructor in Psychiatry and Lead Instructor in Cognitive Therapy for the Residency Training Program for Stony Brook University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  He also simultaneously wore hats as a community supervisor for CW Post/Long Island University, Yeshiva University and Hofstra University in their respective Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programs.   Dr. Candido has wide experience with psychological trauma also and was a long-time American Red Cross volunteer in Disaster Mental Health and the New York State Psychological Association Nassau County Coordinator for its Disaster Response Network.

 

Ron Green, MD is a Board Certified Psychiatrist and an expert in pharmacotherapy.  He is a Professor of Psychiatry at  Dartmouth Medical School and a long-time member of its faculty.  

Known locally as the “doctor’s doctor”, Ron is the Director of Training for the Department of Psychiatry.  His stature and guidance grace all of the Department, not just HP.

Ron has authored many scholarly works and his professional reach has gone far beyond the environs of Dartmouth.

 

Matthew Duncan, MD, is an honors graduate of Dartmouth Medical School, did his internship at Brown University, and completed his psychiatry training at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program in Boston. Since training, he has worked as Acting Director of Psychiatry at the Indian Health Service in Fort Defiance, Arizona and in private practice in a group setting with primary care and specialty physicians in his home state of Utah. He has moved back East to join the Dartmouth Medical School Psychiatry Department faculty where he provides clinical care and teaching, including leading the medical student teaching for the Department. At Hanover Psychiatry he serves as a diagnostician and psychopharmacologist.

 

Elizabeth LaRusso, MD, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and recently finished her psychiatry training at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program in Boston prior to becoming a faculty member of the Dartmouth Medical School Psychiatry Department.  With extensive background and training in psychodynamics, she utilizes insight-oriented psychotherapy, elements of behavioral therapy, and adjunctive psychopharmacology in her therapeutic approach.  Dr. LaRusso has a particular interest in women's mental health as well as couples'  therapy.

 

Robert M. Roth, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, and co-coordinator of the Clinical Neuropsychology Service at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  His clinical training in neuropsychology was completed at the Montreal Neurological Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, and Dartmouth Medical School.  He has practiced as a licensed psychologist, and as a neuropsychologist, for the past eight years.  Dr. Roth is also a neuroscientist conducting neuropsychological and brain imaging research on several psychiatric and neurological illnesses.  He has authored over 45 peer-reviewed scientific publications, as well as being the co-author of two instruments for the assessment of executive functions.

 

Tracy Carothers, Psy.D., is a second-year neuropsychology and neuroimaging Post-Doctoral Fellow in Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School.  Dr. Carothers received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon, where she majored in psychology.  She completed her M.S. and Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology (neuropsychology track) at Pacific University, and she completed her predoctoral internship in clinical neuropsychology and rehabilitation psychology at Eastern Virginia Medical School.  Her clinical background involves working with individuals with dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and psychiatric disorders.  Dr. Carothers’ research has focused on investigating the ecological validity of neuropsychological measures for adults with brain damage and the relationship between conduct disorder and gender on neuropsychological performance.  Her other academic interests include the relationship between cognition, functional imaging, and the ecological validity of neuropsychological measures as well as traumatic brain injury, cognition, and aging.  In her free time, she enjoys traveling, snowboarding, golfing, and spending time with friends and family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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