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You don’t want to miss this   2025 | Issue 4 SMDM Events and Happenings   From The Editor by Helen Colby, PhD Welcome to the new look of the email newsletter! If you have any comments or suggestions about the new newsletter format, have ideas for regular articles that should be included, or would…

Meeting News, Commentaries, Job Postings, and More EDITOR’S NOTE By Helen Colby, PhD, Editor-In-Chief As Victoria Shaffer discusses in her final From the President note, many changes are coming to SMDM! While we’re sad to say goodbye to President Shaffer, who has done an outstanding job of leading our organization over the last year, we’re…

EDITOR’S NOTE By Helen Colby, PhD, Editor-In-ChiefI hope everyone had as great a time as I did at SMDM’s Annual Meeting in Michigan! A huge thank you to everyone who helped make it happen, especially Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher and David Hotton, the awesome co-chairs of the event. I thought the addition of the Clinician Crosstalk…

Meeting News, Commentaries, Job Postings, and More FROM THE PRESIDENT By Victoria Shaffer, PhD, President Dear SMDM community, In the last several weeks, I have watched the current US Administration unveil a set of policies and executive orders that have a direct impact on funding for research in the US; the capacity of researchers to…

EDITOR’S NOTE By Helen Colby, PhD, Editor-In-Chief It was great to see everyone who came to SMDM’s Annual Meeting in Boston in October! Amber Barnato and Jagpreet Chhatwal did a great job organizing an excellent event. There were so many great topics I won’t start to list them here, but I do want to give…

EDITOR’S NOTE By Helen Colby, PhD, Editor-In-Chief I am very pleased to be taking over as the editor of the SMDM newsletter. I want to start by thanking outgoing editor Ellen Engelhardt and outgoing deputy editor Aisha Langford for all their excellent work on the newsletter over the last four years. As I move into…

EDITOR’S NOTE By Ellen Engelhardt, PhD, Editor-In-Chief As I write this final editor’s note, I’ve been reflecting on the experiences and insights gained during my tenure. Serving as editor has been a rewarding learning experience, and I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to lead the newsletter. I want to take this moment to…

Meeting News, Commentaries, Job Postings, and More FROM THE PRESIDENT By Alan Schwartz, PhD, President SMDM’s officers, board, committees, and members have been hard at work to advance the Society and its mission. On the educational front, the upcoming Introduction to MDM webinar has nearly two hundred people signed up as of this writing, and…