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Awards

SMDM Award Programs
Arthur Elstein
The Society encourages and recognizes outstanding work by young investigators. Trainee achievement is recognized by the annual presentation of the Lee B. Lusted Student Prizes for outstanding presentations of research at the Annual Meeting. The Young Investigator Award is presented annually for the best paper published by a trainee or junior faculty member.

The The Society recognizes leadership in the field of medical decision making by individuals and organizations. The Career Achievement Award recognizes seminal work in medical decision making. The Eugene Saenger Award for Distinguished Service recognizes exceptional efforts in support of the Society. In 2002, we introduced the Eisenberg Award in recognition of exemplary leadership in the practical application of medical decision making research.

Recipients of these awards in 2009 were (see below for links to past award recipients):

2009 SMDM LEADERSHIP AWARDS

Career Achievement

Alan Garber, MD, PhD
Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Eugene Saenger Award for Distinguished Service to SMDM

John B. Wong, MD
Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA

John Eisenberg Award in Recognition of Exemplary Leadership in the Practical Application of Medical Decision Making Research

Sue Goldie, MD, MPH
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Award for Outstanding Short Course

Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, ScD
UMIT - University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall i.T, Austria
Causal Inference and Causal Diagrams in Medical Decision Making

2009 SMDM CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARDS

Outstanding Paper by a Young Investigator

Heather Taffet Gold, PhD
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

Correlates and Effect of Suboptimal Radiotherapy in Women With Ductal Carcinoma in Situ or Early Invasive Breast Cancer. Gold HT, Do HT, Dick AW. Cancer 2008; 113(11): 3108-3115

2009 Lee B. Lusted Student Prize

1st Prize

Amelie Raz, Regulated Payments For Living Kidney Donation: An Empirical Assessment Of The Ethical Concerns

Other Winners

Turgay Ayer, Discrimination And Calibration Of Artificial Neural Networks In Mammographic Diagnosis

Rachel Kohn, Fixed Versus Lottery-Based Incentives To Improve Clinicians' Response To Surveys

Erica Wu, Mode Of Delivery Preferences In A Diverse Population Of Pregnant Women

Past Award Recipients

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1990 - 1998 Awards