Beate Jahn, PhD is an Associate Professor and senior lecturer of Medical Decision Making at UMIT, the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and the Munich University and was a visiting researcher in Canada (PATH, THETA), at BGU, Israel and the Prasanna School of Public Health, India. Dr. Jahn is Vice President of SMDM. She is a dedicated teacher providing short courses at the North American and European Meetings, receiving the award for the best short course at the European meeting in 2012. Dr. Jahn’s research interests include decision-analytic modelling, quality-of-life assessment, decision aids and the translation of modeling results into policy and patient empowerment. Her field research includes evaluations of COVID-19 vaccination, colorectal-cancer screening and patient empowerment through balanced outcomes information, breast-cancer screening/treatment and research on obesity and healthy aging.
Univ.-Prof. Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, ScD, is Professor of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Chair of the Department of Public Health, Health Services Research and HTA at UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy & Management at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
His research interests include applying evidence-based quantitative, causal and translational methods in public health and medicine in the framework of medical decision making, patient guidance and HTA. His research focuses on cancer, infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders, and others. He has served as President of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM). He teaches epidemiology, causal inference, HTA, health economics, and modeling for academia, industry and health authorities. He has authored more than 400 publications and is Editor of the European Journal of Epidemiology. Further information: htads.org, umit.at/dph, hsph.harvard.edu/uwe-siebert. Twitter: @UweSiebert9.
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Jeffrey Hoch, PhD is the Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Management in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California at Davis. Also, he is the Associate Director of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research at UC Davis. An award-winning teacher, Professor Hoch has taught Health Economics and Economic Evaluation classes throughout the world. Professor Hoch pursues research making health economics more useful to decision makers.
Kathrene (KD) Valentine, PhD Dr. Valentine is Research Staff with the Health Decision Sciences Center in the General Medicine Division at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is interested in shared decision making, risk communication, the validity of measurements of decision quality and patient preferences, and patient’s reactions to recommendations and guidelines. Her research program focuses on the application of insights from the psychological and quantitative sciences to create a better understanding of the formation, measurement, and influence of patient preferences in preference-sensitive decision contexts. Her training in decision sciences, risk communication, and quantitative and qualitative analytics, provides her with the unique perspective and methods to measure patient preferences and values, identify how and why these change over time, and how these influence decisions. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Missouri State University, a Master of Science in Experimental Psychology from Missouri State University, a Doctorate of Philosophy in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Missouri, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Health Decision Sciences Center in at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Pete Wegier is the Research Chair in Optimizing Care Through Technology at Humber River Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation; and Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Using a combination of information design, medical informatics, and decision science, Pete designs and implements technology-mediated solutions to improve healthcare and medical decision making.
Ellen Lipstein, MD, MPH is an associate professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her research focuses on understanding and improving the ways parents and patients with chronic conditions collaborate with healthcare providers to make treatment decisions. Specifically, she researches on shared decision making and how it can be used to engage parents, children and adolescents with chronic conditions in their care. Her current program of research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer questions about how decisions are made, what help families need in making decisions and how healthcare providers can better support families’ decision making. Additionally, her team is involved in the development and testing of interventions aimed at addressing the decision making challenges.
Victoria Shaffer, PhD is a Quantitative Psychologist with a background in decision theory and behavioral economics. She received her PhD in Quantitative Psychology in 2005 from Ohio State University and is currently a Professor in the Quantitative division of the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. Her research has broadly focused on the development and testing of decision support tools for patients and physicians, with recent work exploring the role of patient narratives in health-related decisions and the development of data visualizations for the Electronic Health Record to inform shared decision making.