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2011-2012 Board Members

Officers, Trustees, Staff and Committee Chairs

Sources of funding SMDM Board Members receive in their professional positions.

Officers

Anne Stiggelbout, PhD
President
Leiden University Medical Center
Netherlands
Phone: +31-71-5264575
a.m.stiggelbout@lumc.nl

Bio

Scott Braithwaite, MD

President-Elect,
Comparative Effectiveness Liaison

NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY 10010
Phone: +1 (203) 785--5711
scott.braithwaite@nyumc.org

Bio

Marilyn Schapira, MD, MPH
Past President
Division of General Internal Medicine Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Phone: 215 898-2022
mschap@upenn.edu
Bio

Ahmed Bayoumi, MD, MSc
Vice President
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5B 1W8
Phone: +1 (416) 864-5438
ahmed.bayoumi@utoronto.ca

Bio

Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, ScD
Vice President-Elect
UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Tech
Dept. of Public Health, Information Systems and HTA
Hall i.T., Tyrol, Austria
uwe.siebert@umit.at

Bio

Stephen Downs, MD, MS
Secretary-Treasurer
Director, Childrens Health Services Research
Indiana University
Phone: +1 (317) 278-0552
stmdowns@iupui.edu

Stephen Pauker, MD
Historian
New England Medical Center
Department of Medicine
750 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: +1 (617) 636-5910
spauker@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Trustees

Amber E. Barnato, MD, MPH, MS, FACPM
Trustee, Technology Assessment Policy Chair
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: +1 (412) 692-4875
barnatoae@upmc.edu

Bio

James E Stahl, MD, CM, MPH
Trustee, Membership Committee Chair
Massachusetts General Hospital
MGH-Inst. for Technology Assessment
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: +1 (617) 724-4447
jstahl@mgh-ita.org

Bio

Seema S. Sonnad, PhD
Trustee
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Phone: +1 (215) 662-4464
Seema.Sonnad@uphs.upenn.edu

Bio

Anirban Basu, PhD
Trustee, 2011 Annual Meeting Co-Chair
University of Washington, Seattle
Magnuson Health Sciences Center
Seattle, WA, 98195-7660
Phone: +1 (206) 616-2986
basua@uw.edu

Bio

Lisa Prosser, PhD
Trustee, Publications Committee Chair
Research Associate Professor
University of Michigan Health System
General Pediatrics, Division of Child Health and Evaluation
Research Unit
Phone: +1 (734) 232-1077
lisapros@med.umich.edu

Bio

Natasha Stout, PhD
Trustee, Career Development Liaison
Department of Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Phone: +1 (617) 509-9914
natasha_stout@hms.harvard.edu

Bio

Elisabeth Fenwick, BA, MSc, PhD
Trustee
Senior Lecturer in Health Economics
University of Glasgow
Public Health & Health Policy
Glasgow, Scotland
Elisabeth.Fenwick@glasgow.ac.uk

Bio

Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD
Trustee
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
jeremygf@stanford.edu

Bio

Robert Hamm, PhD
Trustee
Professor
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
Oklahoma City, OK
robert-hamm@ouhsc.edu

Bio

Ex-Officio

Mark Helfand, MD, MPH
Editor in Chief, Medical Decision Making
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road
Mailcode: BICC
Portland, OR 9723
Phone: +1 (503) 418-2245
helfand@ohsu.edu

Bio

Staff

Jill Metcalf, MBA
Executive Director
Society for Medical Decision Making
Administrative Offices

390 Amwell Road, Suite 402
Hillsborough, NJ 08844 USA

Phone: +1 (908) 359-1184
jill.metcalf@smdm.org

Marie Cortsen
Association Manager
Society for Medical Decision Making
Administrative Offices

390 Amwell Road, Suite 402
Hillsborough, NJ 08844 USA

Phone: +1 (908) 359-1184

Fax: +1 (908) 450-1119

marie@smdm.org

Committee Chairs

Membership Committee Chair

James E Stahl, MD, CM, MPH
Massachusetts General Hospital
MGH-Inst. for Technology Assessment
101 Merrimac St, 10th floor
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: +1 (617) 724-4447
jstahl@mgh-ita.org

Development Committee Chair

Newell McElwee
Merck & Co., Inc.
685 3rd Avenue
685-16-14
New York, NY 10017
Phone: +1 (212) 733-2694
newell_mcelwee@merck.com

External Funding Committee Co-Chairs

Joel Tsevat, MD, MPH
University of Cincinnati
231 Albert Sabin Way Rm. 6603
Cincinnati, OH 45267
Phone: +1 (513) 558-7532
Fax: +1 (513) 558-2744
tsevatj@ucmail.uc.edu

John Wong, MD
Tufts Medical Center
800 Washington Street, #302
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: +1 (617) 636-5695
jwong@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Publications Committee Chair

Lisa Prosser, PhD
Trustee
Research Associate Professor
University of Michigan Health System
General Pediatrics, Division of Child Health and Evaluation
Research Unit
Phone: +1 (734) 232-1077
lisapros@med.umich.edu

Newsletter Editor

A. Scott LaJoie, PhD, MSPH

Editor-in-Chief
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40202 (USA)
+1 (502) 852-1879
Lajoie@louisville.edu

Donald Brand, PhD

Senior Editor
Director of Health Outcomes Research
Winthrop University Hospital
Mineola, NY
dbrand@winthrop.org

Website Editor

Nominations Committee Chair

Issues Committee Chair

Education Committee Co-Chairs

Ahmed Bayoumi, MD, MSc
Vice President
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5B 1W8
Phone: +1 (416) 864-5438
ahmed.bayoumi@utoronto.ca

Bio

Awards Committee Chair

M.G. Myriam Hunink, MD, PhD

Erasmus University Medical School
P.O.Box 2040
300 CA Rotterdam
Rotterdam, 3000 DR
Netherlands
Phone: +31-10-408-7391
Fax: +31-10-408-9382
m.hunink@erasmusmc.nl

Lusted Student Prize Sub-Committee Co-Chairs

John Wong, MD
Tufts Medical Center
800 Washington Street, #302
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: +1 (617) 636-5695
jwong@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Amber E. Barnato, MD, MPH, MS, FACPM
Trustee, Technology Assessment Policy Chair
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: +1 (412) 692-4875
barnatoae@upmc.edu

Regulations Committee Chair

David Hickam, MD (photo pending)
VA Medical Center
3710 SW US Veterans Hospital Road
Portland, OR 97201
Phone: +1 (503) 220-8262
hickam@ohsu.edu

2012 North American Meeting Co-Chairs

Scott Braithwaite, MD

President-Elect,
Comparative Effectiveness Liaison

NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY 10010
Phone: +1 (203) 785--5711
scott.braithwaite@nyumc.org

Bio

Liana Fraenkel, MD, MPH

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT
liana.fraenkel@yale.edu

2012 European Meeting Co-Chairs

Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen, MD, MPH, PhD
University of Oslo
Department of Health Management and Health Economics
PO Box 1089, Blindern
Oslo, NO-0317
Norway
Phone: (479) 322-2388
ivarsk@c2i.net

Peder A. Halvorsen, MD, PhD
University of Tromsø
Svartaksveien 15
Alta, N-9516
Norway
Phone: 0047-975-11941
peder.halvorsen@kraftlaget.no