Milan Satcher, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine and Health Equity Faculty Fellow at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth College
Milan F. Satcher, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and a Health Equity Faculty Fellow at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth College. She is a board-certified family physician with a focus on delivering recovery-oriented reentry care. She received her MD and MPH degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She completed her family medicine residency and chief residency at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and an emergency medicine fellowship at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta, Maine. In 2023, she completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship in Primary Care Research based at Dartmouth Health’s Department of Community & Family Medicine. Her T32 projects included: (1) an analysis of biopsychosocial factors associated with prenatal care utilization patterns among pregnant women with a history of criminal legal system involvement and opioid use disorder in Northern New England (mentors: Sarah Lord, PhD, Martha L. Bruce, PhD, Nick Zaller, PhD), and (2) a qualitative study of the biopsychosocial factors impacting addiction trajectories during reentry from New Hampshire prisons and jails (mentors: Lisa Marsch, PhD, Martha L. Bruce, PhD, Nick Zaller, PhD).
Dr. Satcher is interested in fostering connections across lived experiences and disciplines to eliminate health disparities for communities vulnerable to socio-political exclusion, particularly rural populations impacted by criminal legal system involvement and opioid use disorder (CL-OUD). In collaboration with community partners with lived expertise of CL-OUD and colleagues from diverse disciplines, Dr. Satcher is building a research program to develop and test cross-system biopsychosocial approaches to improve access, coordination, and utilization of primary/addiction care for people with CL-OUD.
When she is not working, Dr. Satcher enjoys singing, spending time with her given & chosen family and faith community, and searching for “hidden gem” restaurants.