Pre-Meeting Dinner Symposium
Saturday, October 18, 2009
5:30 -9:00 pm.
Get a jump start on your networking and education by joining us for a pre-meeting dinner symposium.
Separate registration fee required $ 45.00
The evening will be as follows
| 5:30 pm | | The evening will start with a cash bar which will remain open during dinner. |
| 6:00 pm | | Dinner will be served |
| 6:45 pm | | Presentation to begin |
| 7:45 pm | | Question and Answer period |
SMDM wishes to convey its heartfelt appreciation to
the Foundation for Informed Decision Making for supporting this symposium.
Getting Tools Used: Lessons from Inside and Outside Health Care
Will patient Decision Aids have a vital role in health care reform?
Does Public Reporting of quality matter?
Patient decision support tools are well-validated and effective, but under used. The symposium will examine the keys to success of decision support tools used in the US outside of health care. Investigators will present results of an in-depth investigation of four successful tools used to present evidence and promote informed choices by consumers. Consumer Reports' annual car buying guide, the FDA Nutrition Facts Panel, eBay, and US News's America's Best Colleges all provide decision support, some mandated by government, some entrepreneurial.
Representatives from health care patient decision support producers, health systems and consumer advocacy will comment. The symposium will present key variables for success, and debate the implications for consumer and patient decision involvement in health care decisions.
Pre-Meeting Dinner Symposium Speakers:
Margaret Holmes-Rovner, PhD, Professor - Health Services Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Margaret Holmes-Rovner is Professor of Health Services Research in the Department of Medicine. Her research focuses on descriptive and prescriptive studies of patient and physician decision making. Dr. Holmes-Rovner has developed decision aids and decision aid evaluation measures, participated in systematic reviews of decision aids, and conducted field studies of interactive video-based shared decision making tools in hospital systems in Michigan.
David Kanouse, PhD, Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation
David Kanouse, PhD in psychology, Yale University, is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation who has conducted research on the effects of informational interventions on the behavior of health care consumers and physicians. He leads the RAND reports team for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) project, developing and testing reports on health care quality aimed at consumers and other audiences and conducting laboratory studies of how consumers use quality reports in their decision making.
Shoshanna Sofaer, DrPH, Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College.
Dr. Sofaer previously held academic positions at George Washington University Medical Center and the UCLA School of Public Health. She completed her MPH and DrPH degrees at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Sofaer conducts research and publishes on topics including: the development of quality measures that resonate with consumers and patients; the design and dissemination of public reports on comparative health care quality; ways to improve the effectiveness of health care professionals in caring for older people; and the development of state and local partnerships to pursue community health and health care improvement objectives. She also conducts evaluations of both individual health care programs and clusters of programs. Dr. Sofaer is nationally known for her expertise in qualitative and mixed methods research and consults and trains widely on these issues.
Kate Christensen, MD, FACP, Medical Director, Internet Services, Kaiser Permanente
Dr Christensen is the national physician lead for KP Online. She works extensively with Kaiser Permanente's large set of patient and physician decision support tools. She is a national expert on e-health implementation nation-wide.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Imholz, JD, Special Projects Director, Consumers Union
Betsy Imholz started her career as a public interest attorney in New York, where she served as Consumer Law Coordinator of Legal Services for New York City. She joined Consumers Union, nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, in 1994, and began her focus on health policy shortly thereafter. Ms. Imholz led the West Coast Office for seven years, and then became Special Projects Director, bridging the health policy work of the Advocacy Division with CU's Editorial and Health Ratings Center Divisions. She served as Co-Chair of a 100+ member consumer coalition for health insurance reform in California in 2007-08, It's Our Health Care; led the group's efforts on safety and quality transparency; and received a 2009 award for her "leadership on value purchasing and quality improvement" from the Insured the Uninsured Project. She served on the founding Advisory Committee to the California Department of Managed Health Care from 2001 through 2006, and currently sits on the Advisory Committee to the U.C.L.A. California Health Information Survey; and the Board of Health Access California, the statewide consumer health insurance advocacy group.
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