Margaret Holmes-Rovner, PhD
Prof
Center for Ethics
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
East Fee Road
965 Fee Road Rm C203
East Lansing,
MI
USA
48824-1316
Email:
mholmes@msu.edu
Biographical Sketch: Margaret Holmes-Rovner is Professor Emerita of Health Services Research at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on patient-provider communication and shared decision-making. Dr. Holmes-Rovner has served in a national leadership capacity in the field of medical decision-making and technology assessment. She has worked to establish international standards for patient educational materials designed to support informed, shared patient decision-making as a founding member of the International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration (details are available at http://ipdas.ohri.ca/), where she continues to serve as a member of the Steering Committee. She has developed decision support tools, and decision aid evaluation measures that are widely used nationally and internationally.
Dr. Holmes-Rovner’s present research focuses on implementing shared decision making in clinical practice. This includes empirical studies of patient-provider communication in decision making about early stage prostate cancer treatment and of shared decision making in the primary care/cardiology referral process following stress testing. The empirical work provides background to establish new models of provider-led shared decision making encounters that are relevant to trainees and to practicing clinicians.
Papers:
BOOKLET TALK: PATIENT USE OF DECISION AIDS IN PROSTATE CANCER DIAGNOSIS ENCOUNTERS
IF YOU BUILD THE FIELDS OF SHARED DECISION MAKING DREAMS, CAN PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS PLAY?