The Lee B. Lusted Student Prizes are awarded for outstanding student posters at the Annual Meeting. The competition is named after Dr. Lee B. Lusted, a leader in advancing medical decision making as a field, founding member of the Society in 1979, and the first editor of the Journal of Medical Decision Making. Two awards are given in each of the five SMDM Scientific Areas of Interest. To be eligible for the Lusted Student Prize Competition, the first author on the abstract must be enrolled in a degree granting program, a resident/fellow in a clinical training program, or postdoctoral research fellow at the time of abstract submission. (Pictured here are Lusted prize winners in the HSOP category, with Lusted Chair Jennifer Spencer, PhD, and SMDM President Beate Jahn, PhD.)

Milt Weinstein Award for Outstanding Presentation in Applied Health Economics (AHE)

The Impact of Contraceptive Access on Birth Outcomes in Colombia

Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis of pneumococcal vaccination strategies in Canada

Margaret Holmes-Rovner Award for Outstanding Presentation in Decision Psychology and Shared Decision Making (DEC)

Defaults Options Increase Overriding of Advance Directives: Evidence from a Vignette-Based Laboratory Experiment

Improving Patient Understanding About Chemotherapy Treatment Intent: Using the Consent Form to Clarify Goals of Palliative Chemotherapy

Bruce Schackman Award for Outstanding Presentation in Health Services, Outcomes, and Policy Research (HSOP)

Modeling Changes in the Lifetime Experience of Health Insurance in the United States

Dynamic workforce modeling to inform surgical capacity planning in low-resource settings

Anne Stiggelbout Award for Outstanding Presentation in Patient and Stakeholder Preferences and Engagement (PSPE)

Structured Expert Elicitation: Defining What a Disease Modifying Treatment Would Be in Multiple System Atrophy

Accounting For Risk-Aversion in Health Technology Assessment: Utility Estimation Across Multiple Health Indexes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Stephen Pauker Award for Outstanding Presentation in Quantitative Methods and Theoretical Developments (QMTD)

Using a stochastic epidemic model to guide efficient seroprevalence sampling decisions

Impact of Aggregation Methods on Structured Expert Elicitation Outputs for Survival Estimation in FGFR2-Positive Cholangiocarcinoma