SMDM Award Programs

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.
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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
2008 Awards
2007 Awards
2006 Awards
2005 Awards
2004 Awards
2003 Awards
2002 Awards
2001 Awards
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1999 Awards
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