The Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) is an organization of researchers, clinicians, educators, managers and policy makers based in
Bridgewater, New Jersey
Bridgewater Township is a Township (New Jersey), township in Somerset County, New Jersey, Somerset County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located within the heart of the Raritan River, Raritan Valley region. Situated within Central Jersey, Cen ...
. It researches and uses rigorous and transparent methodologies in
health
Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time. In general, it refers to physical and emotional well-being, especially that associated with normal functioning of the human body, absent of disease, p ...
and
clinical care of individuals to assist in
health policy
Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society".World Health Organization''Health Policy'' accessed 22 March 2011(archived 5 February 2011) According ...
formation. Founded in 1979, it holds annual meetings in North America, biennial meetings in Europe and publishes two journals, 'Medical Decision Making', and 'MDM Policy & Practice.'
Presidents of the society
A list of former and current presidents of the SMDM.
* 1980
Eugene L. Saenger
* 1981
Harvey V. Fineberg
* 1982 Arthur S. Elstein
* 1983 Dennis G. Fryback
* 1984
Harold C. Sox Jr.
* 1985
Milton C. Weinstein
* 1986 Sankey V. Williams
* 1987
Donald M. Berwick
* 1988 Stephen G. Pauker
* 1989 J. Sanford Schwartz
* 1990
Edward H. Shortliffe
Edward ("Ted") Hance Shortliffe (born 1947) is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. He was the principal developer of the ...
* 1991 Margaret M. Holmes-Rovner
* 1992 Mark J. Young
* 1993 Robert M. Centor
* 1994 Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas
* 1995 Randall D. Cebul
* 1996 J. Robert Beck
* 1997 Michael J. Barry
* 1998 Robert F. Nease Jr.
* 1999 Douglas K. Owens
* 2000 Mark Eckman
* 2001 Myriam Hunink
* 2002 Joel Tsevat
* 2003 John Wong
* 2004 Scott B. Cantor
* 2005 Karen Kuntz
* 2006 Frank Sonnenberg
* 2007 David Meltzer
* 2008 Gillian Sanders
* 2009 Mark Roberts
* 2010 Kathryn McDonald
* 2011 Marilyn Schapira
* 2012 Anne Stiggelbout
* 2013 Scott Braithwaite
* 2014 Murray Krahn
* 2015 Ahmed Bayoumi
* 2016 Mark Helfand
* 2017 Angie Fagerlin
* 2018 Uwe Siebert
* 2019 Heather Taffet Gold
* 2020 Lisa Prosser
* 2021 Natasha Stout
* 2022 Olga Kostopoulou
* 2023 Beate Sanders
References
External links
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Medical and health organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1979
1979 establishments in New Jersey
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