Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 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 Coordinator: Laura Scherer
SMDM has Special Interest Groups in the following areas:
- Decision Psychology
- Chairs: Victoria Shaffer, PhD and Laura Scherer, PhD
- Global Health
- Chairs: Kyu Lee, PhD
- Methods Development in Health Economic Evaluation
- Co-Chairs: Mike Paulden, PhD and Torbjørn Wisløff, PhD
- Open Source Modeling
- Co-Chairs: Ron Handels, PhD, Raymond Henderson, PhD
- Open Source Modeling Website
- Pediatrics
- Co-Chairs: Tran Doan, PhD, MPH and Shireen Hayatghaibi, PhD
- Decision Sciences for Child Health Collaborative (DSCCo) Social Feed
- Preference Measurement
- Co-Chairs: Ilene L. Hollin, PhD, MPH and Norah L Crossnohere, PhD
- Q+ Affinity Group
- Chairs: Anton Avanceña, PhD and 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
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 Coordinator 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]