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.

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

Citina Liang

Evaluating Policy Interventions for Syphilis-HIV Co-infection in Men Who Have Sex with Men

Yang Zhang

Value of a Larger Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass Trial for Secondary Stroke Prevention: An EVSI Analysis

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

Tamar Parmet

Women’s breast cancer screening preferences and beliefs about what they should be informed about before screening

Soroush Fariman

Patient-Provider Race/Ethnicity Concordance and Patient-Reported Shared Decision Making

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

Jenna Rogers

Improved Long-Term Outcomes from Reduced Radiation Exposure in Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors: A Lifespan Perspective

Melissa Franco-Galicia

Potential Implications of Braidwood v. Becerra Challenge on Preventive Services Mandate for Breast Cancer Screening

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

Xinyi Cheng

Now or Later? How Optimism Impact Patients’ Preferences in Kidney Transplant Acceptance Decisions

Austin Lee

Identification of Patient Preference “Phenotypes” in Nephrolithiasis

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

Selina Pi

Modeling Colorectal Cancer Screening Uptake from Repeated Cross-sectional Data: First Steps Towards a Screening Simulator

Tae Yoon Lee

Value of Information Analysis for Development of Survival Risk Prediction Models