Primary Care Providers

AT GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC

Meet Our Primary Care Team

At Good Neighbor Health Clinic, our primary care providers are dedicated to delivering compassionate and comprehensive healthcare to individuals throughout the Upper Valley community.

Patient Eligibility and Application Process

If you are not yet established with the Good Neighbor Health Clinic, we would like to invite you to complete an application for our services. Our team is committed to ensuring access to quality healthcare for all members of our community. Click here to fill out an application!

Get to know the faces behind your care by reading about our providers below!

Our Providers

PRIMARY CARE

volunteers

Kristin Burdick, MD

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.

Emily Cohen, MD

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

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.

Anna Fooy, PA-C

Anna Fooy is a certified and licensed Physician Assistant. She completed her undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Science at Oakland University in Rochester, MI in 2018. Throughout her undergraduate career, she worked as a physical therapy technician, biology/anatomy tutor, and medical assistant. She was also able to travel to Nicaragua to provide medical care, act as a research assistant, she volunteered at free clinics in Detroit, MI. Anna started her Master’s of Physician Assistant Studies in the Summer of 2019 at Trine University in Fort Wayne, IN. It was there her love of the PA profession continued to grow as she learned. She started the first diversity awareness bi-weekly email initiative throughout her campus and engaged in interprofessional education. She graduated in December of 2021 and is officially a PA-C!

Anna is enthusiastic about her profession and aims to use her skills of empathy, competency, and team-oriented mindset to provide the best patient care possible. Her interests include internal medicine, preventative medicine, hematology/oncology, palliative care, and hospice, as well as women’s oncology. She also currently serve as the Clinic Coordinator at Good Neighbor Health Clinic (free clinic) and have enjoyed making healthcare accessible to everyone! She looks forward to connecting with you. Stay healthy and happy!

Kelly Kieffer, MD

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, MD

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.

David Nierenberg, MD

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, MD, MPH

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.

John Sanders Jr., MD

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 Primary Care Provider Volunteers Include:

Richard Clattenburg, MD

Judith Hills, MD

Jeff Katchen, PA

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How much does the clinic cost?

Services provided by the Good Neighbor Health Clinic are FREE!

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. To apply for services, complete a patient application!

How do I make an appointment?

To make an appointment, call us at 802-295-1868.

Are you accepting new patients?

YES! If you are a new patient to Good Neighbor Health Clinic, please complete a patient application! Once your application has been approved, we will reach out with scheduling options.

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We are excited to have earned a 2024 Gold Rating from the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics Quality Standards Program. As a Good Neighbor Health or a Red Logan Dental Clinic patient, you can be assured that you are receiving excellent care and that the Clinic has the policies and procedures in place to stand behind our care.

Main Medical & Dental Clinics

Red Logan Dental Clinic
(Downstairs)

70 North Main Street
White River Junction, VT 05001

DENTAL APPOINTMENTS
(802) 295-7573
(phone lines open at 9 AM)
dental@goodnhc.org

Good Neighbor Health Clinic
(Upstairs)

70 North Main Street
White River Junction, VT 05001

MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS
(802) 295-1868
(phone lines open at 9 AM)
medical@goodnhc.org

CLINICS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Appointments are available during day and evening hours.

PARKING
The Clinic has a limited number of spaces directly behind the building. The entrance is on Gates Street between the Consolidated Communications brick building and Village Apartments.