Shared Decision Making in Health Care

Glyn Elwyn, Professor, Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, NH, USA,Adrian Edwards, Director of the Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK,Rachel Thompson, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, NH, USA

Glyn Elwyn, MD MSc FRCGP PhD is a physician-researcher, Professor and Senior Scientist at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, USA. After reading the humanities he qualified in medicine in the United Kingdom. He completed a masters in medical education (MSc) and a health services research doctorate (PhD) under the guidance of Professor Richard Grol in the Netherlands.

Professor Elwyn leads interdisciplinary research examining the implementation of shared decision making, user-centred design of patient decision support interventions and the integration of these into routine health care. He also holds the following positions: Honorary Research Chair at Cardiff University and Visiting Chair at the Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands.

Professor Adrian Edwards is Professor in General Practice and Director of the Institute for Primary Care & Public Health at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. He is also a part-time general practitioner in Cwmbran, Gwent, South Wales and sees about 60 patients per week. He also has Visiting appointments at Aarhus and Southern Denmark Universities.

Dr Rachel Thompson is an Assistant Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, USA. She conducts applied health services research that seeks to enhance provider-patient communication; facilitate shared decision-making by patients and providers; support providers to understand and respond to the needs and preferences of patients; and strengthen the patient voice in the design and evaluation of health services, clinical trials, and health care guidelines and policies. She has broader research interests in implementation science, particularly in research that seeks to increase understanding of barriers and enablers to the successful adoption of evidence-based innovations, and to successful disinvestment in futile or harmful interventions in health care.

J.W.M. (Annemijn) Aarts, Radboudumc University Medical Center, Department Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Thomas Agoritsas, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Alice Andrews, Master of Health Care Delivery Science Program, and Instructor, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
David Arterburn, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
Paul J. Barr, The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Michael J. Barry, Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, Boston, MA, USA
Arianna I. Blaine, Option Grid Collaborative, The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, Hanover, NH, USA
Kasey Boehmer, Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA
Megan Bowen, Healthwise, Boston, MA, USA
Kevin Bozic, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California; Core Faculty, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies; and Harvard Business School, San Francisco, CA, USA
Pearl Brady, Patient Partner
Megan Branda, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA
Maggie Breslin, Independent Design Consultant, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Nathalie Brière, Centre de santé et de services sociaux de la Vieille-Capitale, centre affilié universitaire, Quebec, Canada
Suzanne Brodney, Healthwise, Boston, MA, USA
Dawn Carey, The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, Hanover, NH, USA
Kristin Carman, Health Policy Research, Health and Social Development Program, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC, USA
Kristin L. Carman, Health & Social Development, American Institutes for Research, Washington DC, USA
Andy Carson-Stevens, Cochrane Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK; and Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School, Cambridge, MA, USA
Marla L. Clayman, Health & Social Development, American Institutes for Research, Washington DC, USA
Nan Cochran, The Dartmouth Institute on Health Policy and Clinical Practice; American Academy on Communication in Health Care (AACH); Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, White River Junction VA Hospital, Lebanon, NH, USA
Nananda Col, President, Shared Decision Making Resources, Georgetown, ME, USA
Dale Collins-Vidal, Director, Center for Shared Decision Making, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
Angela Coulter, Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, UK; Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK
Debra de Silva, The Evidence Centre, London, UK
John Donnellan, Health Policy and Management, New York University; and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York, NY, USA
Kyla Donnelly, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Marie-Anne Durand, The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Karen Eden, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Adrian Edwards, Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK
Glyn Elwyn, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Vikki Entwistle, Health Services Research and Ethics, Health Services Research Unit, Foresterhill, University of Aberdeen, UK
Marjan J. Faber, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dominick Frosch, Patient Care Program, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Michael R. Gionfriddo, Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Paul Glasziou, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
Christina Gunther-Murphy, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, MA, USA
Erik P. Hess, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Tammy Hoffmann, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
Clarissa Hsu, Center for Community Health and Evaluation, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
Natalie Joseph-Williams, Institute of Primary Care & Public Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Andrea Kabcenell, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, MA, USA
Stephen Kearing, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Paul Kinnersley, Institute of Medical Education, The Medical School, Cardiff University, UK
Jan Kremer, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Lauren Leavitt, Health Decision Sciences Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Annie LeBlanc, Division of Heath Care Policy Research, Department of Health Service Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
France Légaré, Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Québec, Canada
Richard Lehman, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
Amy Lloyd, Cochrane Institute for Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Sheila Macphail, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals, NHS, Northumberland, UK
Barry G. Main, Centre for Surgical Research, Section of Healthcare Research, University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, Bristol, UK
Greg Makoul, Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation; CEO, PatientWisdom, CT, USA
Marion McAllister, Institute of Cancer and Genetics, Cardiff University, UK
Michelle McDowell, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition / Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Berlin, Germany
Manish Mishra, Addiction Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
Suzanne Mitchell, Family Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Victor M. Montori, Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Benjamin W. Moulton, Informed Medical Decisions Foundation Boston, MA, USA
Ray Moynihan, Centre for Research in Evidence Based Practice, Bond University, Australia
Al Mulley, The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
M. Hassan Murad, Division of Preventive Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
William Nelson, Community and Family Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
Alan Nye, The Advancing Quality Alliance, St James's House, Salford, UK
Gareth Parry, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, MA, USA
Thaddeus Pope, Hamline University School of Law, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Jeffrey M. Ring, Health Management Associates, Costa Mesa, California, USA
Isabelle Scholl, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Gary Schwitzer, HealthNewsReview.org, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Karen Sepucha, Health Decision Sciences Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
Leigh Simmons, Shared Decision Making Program, John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
Dawn Stacey, University of Ottawa and Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
Gautham Suresh, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, USA
Ming Tai-Seale, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto; and Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Jill Thistlethwaite, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Rachel Thompson, The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Caroline Tietbohl, Medical Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jon Tilburt, Divisions of General Internal Medicine & Health Care Policy & Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Lyndal Trevena, Primary Health Care, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Stéphane Turcotte, Research Center of CHU de Québec, Canada
Sandra van Dulmen, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; and Department of Health Sciences, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Drammen, Norway
Robert J. Volk, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Ian Watt, Department of Health Sciences, Hull York Medical School, University of York , Heslington, York, UK
Emily O. Westbrook, Research Project Management Office, Group Health, Seattle, WA, USA
Richard M. Wexler, Healthwise, Boston, MA, USA
Tom Workman, Health & Social Development, American Institutes for Research, Washington DC, USA
Kirk Wyatt, Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Residency Program, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education; Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Claudia Zeballos-Palacios, Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA