Society for Medical Decision Making

SMDM is always looking for volunteers to join any of its committees or interest groups. Read more about the SMDM Committees and Interest Groups below. If you are interested in joining a committee or interest group, please write info@smdm.org with your interest and you will be directed to the appropriate chair.

Committees

SMDM's standing committees continue from year to year.
View a description of SMDM's standing committees.

SMDM has the following standing committees:

• Awards Committee (Chair: Mark Bounthavong, PharmD, PhD)

• Career Development Committee (Co-Chairs: Kate Lofgren, PhD and Jinyi Zhu) 

• Development Committee (Chair: Marilyn Schapiro, MD)

• Digital Communications Committee (Co-Chairs: Alistair Thorpe, PhD and Jenny Spencer PhD)

• Diversity, Anti-Racism & Transformation Team (DART) (Co-Chairs: Beate Jahn, PhD and Heather Taffet Gold, PhD)

• Education Committee (Chair: Petros Pechlivanoglou, M.Sc., PhD and Margo Wheatley, PhD)

• Executive Committee (Chair: Victoria Shaffer, PhD) *Note: This committee is closed to the Executive Officers of SMDM.

• Finance Committee (Chair: Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD)

• Issues Committee (Chair: Marilyn Schapira, MD, MPH)

• Membership Committee (Chair: Alan Schwartz, PhD, JD and Anthony Sunjaya, MD SM FRSPH)

• Nominating Committee (Chair: Beate Sander, PhD) *Note: Committee members are elected at the SMDM Annual Business Meeting each Fall per SMDM regulations.

• Patient Advisory Council

• Publications Committee (Chair: Aubri Hoffman, PhD)

• Regulations Committee (Chair: Steve Kymes, PhD)

Special Interest Groups

Special Interest Groups are formed by Members of the Society who wish to network with medical decision researchers with similar research interests. Groups schedule in-person meetings during SMDM meetings and use SMDM Connect for online discussions, information sharing, and networking throughout the year. Each group chooses a Leader or co-Leaders who organize and lead in-person meetings.

• Special Interest Group Chair (Laura Scherer)

SMDM has Special Interest Groups in the following areas:

• Global Health (Chair: Kyu Lee, PhD)

• Methods Development in Health Economic Evaluation (Co-Chairs: Mike Paulden, PhD and Torbjørn Wisløff, PhD)

• Open Source Models (Co-Chairs: Renée Arnold, PharmD, RPh and Ron Handels, PhD)

• Pediatrics (Co-Chairs: Tran Doan, PhD, MPH and Shireen Hayatghaibi, PhD)

• Preference Measurement (Co-Chairs: Ilene L. Hollin, PhD, MPH and Norah L Crossnohere, PhD)

• Q+ Affinity Group (Chairs: Anton Avanceña, PhD & Ryan Suk, PhD)

• Shared Decision Making (Co-Chairs: Semra Ozdemir, PhD and KD Valentine, PhD) 

• Teaching MDM (Chair: Ashley Leech, PhD and Jinyi Zhu, PhD, MPH)

SMDM Members can view full descriptions of each group by logging into SMDM Connect and selecting Special Interest Groups under the Groups dropdown menu. Special Interest Groups are open to Members by clicking the green join+ button.

Interested in Forming a New Interest Group?

Any individual SMDM member or group of SMDM members that share a common interest in line with SMDM’s mission and wish to establish a new SMDM Special Interest Group should contact the Special Interest Group Chair to indicate their intent, address preliminary questions, and prepare an application.

The application consists of:

• Rationale, objective and description of the proposed SIG

• Goal for first SIG meeting

• Proposed SIG Leader(s)

• Potential SIG members [list 5 to show that there will be enough support to get the group started]