Center for Health Decision Science faculty, students and researchers presented more than 10 abstracts at the 29th Annual Meeting for the Society for Medical Decision Making in Pittsburgh, PA, October 20-24, 2007. Among those, Research Assitant
Jesse Ortendahl, presented the top rated poster abstract and Assistant Professor
Jane J Kim, presented one of the top 6 oral presentations. To see all abstracts from the meeting,
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Rebecca Anhang Price is a recipient of the George Bennett Dissertation Fellowship from the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making and the recipient of the 2006-07 Novartis Fellowship.
Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert won the Lee B. Lusted Student Prize awarded by the Society for Medical Decision Making in 2006 for a policy analysis of HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening in the U.S. He is also a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship supporting three years of training and research on work related to public policy.
Sue J. Goldie, named a MacArthur Fellow in 2005, was also named Distinguished Alumni of Albany Medical College in 2005, and was awarded the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard University in 2006. She was recently named the Phyllis Bodell visiting professor and delivered the annual lecture at Yale on Decision Science and Health Policy.
James Hammitt was appointed to the Pierre-de-Fermat Chaire d'Excellence at the Universite de Toulouse in France for the academic year 2005-2006.
Jane Kim won a Lee B. Lusted Student Prize awarded by the Society for Medical Decision Making in 2005 for research conducted on "An empirically calibrated natural history model of human papillomavirus (HPV)-induced cervical cancer: How good is 'good enough?'. The same year she was awarded a Student Research Award by the International Papillomavirus Society for presentation entitled "Calibration of a natural history model of cervical cancer using longitudinal primary data".
Joshua Salomon was the recipient of a Research Excellence Award, from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research for "multi-method approach to measuring health-state valuations" (published in Health Economics, 2004).
Natasha Stout won a first place Lee B. Lusted Student Prize awarded by the Society for Medical Decision Making, for her presentation titled "Could We Have Done Better? A Retrospective Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Routine Screening Mammography" presented at the SMDM Annual Meeting. Oct 17-20, 2004, Atlanta, GA.
Milton C. Weinstein received a Distinguished Service Award from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research in 2005, and was named the Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecturer on Health Policy at Syracuse University in 2004.