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October 18, 2008
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Practice and Policy; Challenges and Opportunities
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dates: 18-22 October 2008
Venue: Hyatt Regency Penns Landing
This year’s program is expected to be largest yet, bringing together investigators from the broad range of disciplines whose research focuses on medical and health decision making and behavior and its application to clinical care and policy. Highly interactive research presentations, keynote talks, special symposia and short courses will provide attendees the opportunity to explore diverse topics in medical decision making, decision and behavior theory, and novel analytical methods applied to health care and health policy. Highlights of this year’s meeting include:
- Keynote address by J. Michael McGinnis, MD; Senior Scholar at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Executive Director of the IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, giving an overview state-of-the-art summary of comparative effectiveness research, identifying key challenges and opportunities that must be addressed by the research community to effectively incorporate comparative effectiveness research into policy and practice.
- U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Proposals for Comparative Effectiveness and Health Care Reform – Presentations by senior health policy representatives for John McCain and Barack Obama; responses by senior national health policy experts.
- Comparative Effectiveness Symposium: “Risk Communication and Behavior: A Research Agenda
- Assessing Medical Interventions: What Needs to be Taught and Why Aren’t We Doing It?
- Comparative Effectiveness Symposium: Non–Experimental Methods More than 300 oral and poster presentations of new research spanning the full range of research disciplines, analytical domains and health care applications relevant to medical decision making in practice and policy.
- Leading researchers will provide an overview of groups of related abstracts, placing clinical and methodological contributions within the context of the field, followed by discussion among session attendees.
- Featured abstracts from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, the leading research group for PhD cognitive and behavioral psychologists.
- Of special interest to attendees from outside North America, our new Global Health Working Group will hold its first meeting during lunchtime on Monday, October 20th.
Discounted rates are available for early registration through September 19th.
The full program brochure is available at http://www.smdm.org/documents/Brochure.pdf
For more information about SMDM, please go to http://www.smdm.org/.
