Board of Trustees

Officers, Trustees, and Staff
History of Board and Trustees

Officers

Lisa Prosser, PhD

President (2019 - 2020)
Professor and Director Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit
University of Michigan, USA

Natasha Stout, PhD

President-Elect (2019 - 2020)
Assistant Professor in Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, USA

Heather Taffet Gold, PhD

Past President (2019 - 2020)
Associate Professor of Population Health, Medicine, and Health Policy
New York University School of Medicine, USA

Mary Politi, PhD

Vice President (2019 - 2020)
Associate Professor
Washington University in St. Louis, Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, USA

Beate Jahn, PhD

Vice President-Elect (2019 - 2020)
Senior Scientist and Head of Program of Personalized Medicine
University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria

Ava John-Baptiste, PhD

Secretary-Treasurer (2019 - 2021)
Assistant Professor
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, Canada

J. Robert Beck, MD

Historian (2019 - 2024)
Deputy Director, Chief Academic and Administrative Officer
Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA

Trustees

Fernando Alarid-Escudero, PhD

Trustee (2018 - 2021)
Assistant Professor
Drug Policy Program, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) - CONACyT, Mexico

Esther de Bekker-Grob, PhD

Trustee (2018 - 2021)
Erasmus University - Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Jesse Jansen, PhD

Trustee (2019 - 2022)
Associate Professor
Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Ankur Pandya, PhD

Trustee (2019 - 2022)
Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science
Harvard School of Public Health, USA

Victoria Shaffer, PhD

Trustee (2018 - 2021)
Associate Professor
University of Missouri, USA

Joanna Siegel, SM, ScD

Trustee (2017 - 2020)
Director, Dissemination and Implementation
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), USA

Torbjørn Wisløff, PhD

Trustee (2017 - 2020)
Senior Researcher
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Holly Witteman, PhD

Trustee (2017 - 2020)
Associate Professor
Université Laval (Laval University), Canada

Davene Wright, PhD

Trustee (2019 - 2022)
Assistant Professor
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, USA

Editorial Office

Alan Schwartz, PhD

Editor in Chief, Medical Decision Making and Medical Decision Making Policy & Practice
Associate Professor, Clinical Decision Making and Director of Research
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Rebecca J. Fiala

Editorial Manager, Medical Decision Making
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Brian Zikmund-Fisher, PhD

Editor in Chief, SMDM e-newsletter
Associate Professor of Health Behavior & Health Education and Internal Medicine
University of Michigan, USA

Ellen G. Engelhardt, PhD

Deputy Editor, SMDM e-newsletter
Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology and Division of Molecular Pathology
Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands

Staff

Trevor Scholl

Association Manager
Society for Medical Decision Making, USA

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