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

October 23 - 26, 2016

Anne M. Stiggelbout, PhD

Leiden University Medical Center
Department of Medical Decision Making
PO Box 9600
Leiden Netherlands 2300 RC
Email: a.m.stiggelbout@lumc.nl

Biographical Sketch: Prof. Anne Stiggelbout is full professor of Medical Decision Making at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), the Netherlands. Her research and teaching relate to shared decision making and risk communication, as well as to quality of life and outcome preference (utility) assessment. She has received grants from among others the Dutch Cancer Society and the Netherlands Organisations for Scientific Research (NWO) and Medical Research (ZonMw), on patient preference assessment, patient empowerment, and shared decision-making and risk communication, but also on quality of life measurement and clinimetrics. She teaches at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels, mostly in medicine. Prof. Stiggelbout is active in scientific advisory committees and boards in the area of medical decision making. She is Chair of the LUMC Medical Research Profile ‘Innovation in Health Strategy and Quality of Care’. She was President of the Society for Medical Decision Making (2011-2012), is member of the International Patient Decision Aids Standards Group, and member and co-founder of the Dutch Platform for Shared Decision Making.

Papers:
3H ORAL ABSTRACTS: WEIGHING THE RISKS OF INTERVENTION: PATIENT PERCEPTIONS AND INFORMED CHOICE CAREER DEVELOPMENT PANEL: TRAINING IN MEDICAL DECISION MAKING AN E-LEARNING MODULE FOR SHARED DECISION MAKING WITH OLDER CANCER PATIENTS: IMPROVEMENT OF ONCOLOGISTS' SELF-REPORTED COGNITIONS AND BEHAVIOR DISCLOSING THE UNCERTAINTY ASSOCIATED WITH PROGNOSTIC ESTIMATES IN BREAST CANCER: CURRENT PRACTICES AND PATIENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF UNCERTAINTY MEASURING THE SHARED DECISION MAKING PROCESS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES