38th Annual North American Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making

October 23 - 26, 2016

Baruch Fischhoff, PhD

Howard Heinz University Professor, Department of Engineering & Public Policy and Institute for Politics and Strategy
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA
USA 15213

Biographical Sketch: BARUCH FISCHHOFF is Howard Heinz University Professor, in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine. He is past President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and of the Society for Risk Analysis. He has chaired the Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee and been a member of the Eugene (Oregon) Commission on the Rights of Women, the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee and the Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Board, where he chaired the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Society for Risk Analysis. His books include Acceptable Risk, Risk: A Very Short Introduction, Judgment and Decision Making, and Counting Civilian Casualties, and Communicating Risks and Benefits.

Papers:
1A-6 BASE RATES AND EXTENSIONAL REASONING IN DECOMPENSATION RISK ASSESSMENTS: A LONGITUDINAL COHORT STUDY 2F-5 ENGAGING A HIGH-RISK PREGNANCY POPULATION: RESULTS FROM A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT PILOT OF THE MYHEALTHYPREGNANCY APP