For more than 30 years, Good Neighbor Health Clinics has been providing quality medical care at no cost to those in need across the Upper Valley. Services and programs are offered at 70 North Main Street in White River Junction, Vermont.
All care is provided by highly trained and credentialed staff and volunteers who put the patient and their well-being at the center of all that they do.
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Are you accepting new patients?
Yes! We are still accepting patients within our Medical Clinics. If you are interested in becoming a patient, please complete the application for services.
How much does the clinic cost?
This is a FREE health clinic for adults 18 and older who are uninsured, underinsured, or do not have the means to pay for the care they need.
Am I eligible to be a patient?
In order to be a patient, you must be 18 years of age or older and live within 30 miles of White River Junction.
How do I make an appointment?
To make an appointment, call us at 802-295-1868 or email us at medical@goodnhc.org.
Where are the clinics located?
Our clinics are in one building! The medical clinic is located upstairs at 70 North Main Street, White River Junction, Vermont. The dental clinic is located downstairs at 70 North Main Street, White River Junction, Vermont.
When are appointments available?
Appointments vary by provider. As our providers volunteer their time, some clinics begin as early as 9:00 AM and end as late at 9:00 PM. Please feel free to discuss scheduling options with our staff, and let us know any scheduling conflicts you have.
Kristin Burdick, MD is board-certified in Family Medicine and formerly worked in Family Medicine clinics at Dartmouth Health and University of Vermont. In addition, she formerly worked in hospice and palliative care. She is currently interested in general Family Medicine, as well as our food supply and the link between human health and soil health. In addition to Good Neighbor Health Clinic, she volunteers at Willing Hands and the Listen Center.
Dr. Charles Carr is an orthopaedic surgeon who has received most of education locally having graduated from Dartmouth College (1979), Dartmouth Medical School (1981), and from the Dartmouth Orthopaedic Residency Program (1987). He completed two fellowships in shoulder/hand surgery and trauma surgery before returning to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center where he spent his entire career as an orthopaedic sports medicine physician. He served as the Head Team Physician for Dartmouth College Athletics and provided sports medicine coverage for numerous high schools in the local area over the past 30 years. His research interests relate to arthroscopic surgery and he has published articles and book chapters on this topic, as well as regularly lecturing on the subjects of sports medicine and arthroscopy. He has served as a volunteer physician for the US Olympic Team and presently works with Health Volunteers Overseas teaching surgical techniques to physicians and students in 3 rd world countries. His greatest passion is educating others as he served as the Director of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Orthopaedic Residency Training Program for over 20 years.
Emily received her medical degree from the University of Amsterdam and did her internal medicine residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She was an academic hospitalist from 2009-2015 at the White River Junction VA medical center where she developed and led a unique quality and patient safety curriculum for residents. She transitioned to primary care in 2015. She worked with medical students, resident physicians and nurse practitioners in VA clinics and acute primary care telemedicine visits in rural VA clinics.
Emily is passionate about increasing access to health care. She accepted a position at the San Francisco VA medical center to explore the outer limits of telemedicine in remote and complex areas of the United States. She is serving veterans in California, Nevada, and the Pacific Islands in her current role.
As part of her dedication to the underserved, she joined the Good Neighbor Health Clinic in 2024. This is also possible due to her tour of duty, living on the East Coast and working in Pacific Time allows for 3 extra hours in the day! She developed the concept of a cost friendly cooking class after seeing several patients at the clinic who identified as food insecure. The class started in July and has been very well received. There are also 2 medical students helping with the class, which adds to the fun!
Ken Dolkart, MD, FACP is a Primary Care Internist and Geriatrician who received Undergraduate and Medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Ken is a long term member of Physicians for a National Health Program. He has practiced in New Hampshire and Vermont for 41 years, and is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine. He founded the Nashua Center for Healthy Aging prior to an academic practice at DHMC, Lebanon. He has been recognized on multiple occasions with New Hampshire Top Doctor and teaching awards. Dr. Dolkart divides his time between practice, family, teaching, healthcare advocacy, hiking and travel. He lives in Grantham, NH.
Natalie Fragoso is a board-certified dermatologist practicing at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. She attended the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and completed her dermatology residency at UCLA Health. She runs a hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) specialty clinic.
Matthew Friedman is a, now retired, pharmacologist turned psychiatrist who established and served for 24 years as Executive Director of the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from 1989 to 2014. He stepped down in 2014 to become a Senior Advisor to the Center and to establish and direct the National PTSD Brain Bank from 2014 to 2022. In addition, he was Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He has 50 years of experience as a clinician, teacher and researcher with approximately 360 publications, including 29 books. Dr. Friedman is a Distinguished Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, past-president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), past-chair of the APA’s DSM-5 and DSM-5-TR PTSD Work Groups, and past-chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. He has served on many national research, education, and policy committees. Past honors include the ISTSS Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 and Public Advocacy Award in 2009. He was a finalist for the 2011 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal.
I pursue providing the highest quality care in a friendly, professional clinic.
My experiences in global health, US military service, and in clinical care have taught me the value of providing patients with evidence-based management options that best fit patients’ overall needs. This includes striving for clear, detailed, patient friendly information about a patient’s disease and the risks and benefits of treatment options so the patient and I can come to the best management plan at each stage of their disease.
I practice General Dermatology, including skin cancer, acne, allergic contact dermatitis, hidradenitis suppurativa, psoriasis and eczema, as well as treatment of skin cancer and removal of “lumps and bumps”. In addition, I coordinate clinical trials for our section, working with our providers to bring cutting-edge treatments to our community for such diseases as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. My areas of non-pharmacological research interest include infectious diseases and epidemiology of skin diseases. I am an active member of the American Academy of Dermatology and, most recently, the American Contact Dermatitis Society.
Dr. Kieffer is a clinician and educator in the section of General Internal Medicine, and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine. She enjoys case-based and clinical teaching across the spectrum of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education, as well as designing, implementing and assessing new curricula.
Donald Kollisch is a Family Doctor who has volunteered at Good Neighbor since 1995. He was Medical Director for 3 years and on the Board for 14 years. He has practiced in rural Northern New Hampshire, at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, at the VA Medical Center, and at the City University of New York. Now largely retired, he still teaches at Geisel and at Dartmouth Health.
Dr. Nierenberg served as Section Chief in Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at DHMC for 40 years, and also as the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at Dartmouth Medical School (now Geisel School of Medicine). After attending Harvard Medical School, he performed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and completed a two-year cl fellowship in clinical pharmacology and toxicology at the University of California, San Francisco, and served as Chief Resident in Medicine at Stanford Medical Center.
In 1981 he joined the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School and the Hitchcock Clinic, and established a new Division of Clinical Pharmacology. His main activities centered around teaching medical pharmacology to medical students, and developing the first required medical school course in clinical pharmacology, as Dartmouth Medical School became a four-year program in 1981. Since stepping down as the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education in June 2012, Dr. Nierenberg has continued to see patients with medication-related or toxin-related problems, and continues to enjoy teaching and mentoring medical students and residents in areas related to pharmacology and toxicology. He has also enjoyed working as a volunteer general internist at Good Neighbor, and more recently serving as Clinic Co-Medical Director.
Lisa Pastel has been practicing at DH-Lebanon since 2003. She earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond and completed her residency in Internal Medicine Primary Care at Dartmouth Hitchcock. Additionally, she completed the Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency. Dr. Pastel serves as an On Doctoring Facilitator at the Geisel School of Medicine and she regularly precepts residents and medical students. Her professional interests include Preventive Medicine, Chronic Disease management, Penicillin allergies, Mind Body Medicine, and Medical Student Education. In her free time she enjoys being with her family, gardening, hiking, biking and skiing.
I was born in Detroit Michigan, grew up on the west side of Cleveland, and attended Dartmouth College. I then went to the University of Michigan Medical School, where I met my wife, Karen. I trained in General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. I practiced Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery there, then at Northwestern University, and finally at Dartmouth Hitchcock. I retired in 2012, and have taught at Geisel School of Medicine ever since. I have been a volunteer at Good Neighbor Health Clinic since 2010. I am on the Board of Northern Stage, Northern Woodlands, and H2RC (HIV and Hepatitis C Resource Committee). Karen and I enjoy
hiking, exploring our woods, and live theater.
Other Volunteer Providers Include:
Richard Clattenburg, MD
Judith Hills, MD
Jeff Katchen, PA
