Dr. John Wennberg and Dr. Albert Mulley to Speak at Society of General Internal Medicine 28th Annual Meeting.

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Who:            Dr. John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH, Director of the Center
                for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth
                Medical School, Co-Founder of the Foundation for
                Informed Medical Decision-Making (FIMDM) Dr. Albert G.
                Mulley, Jr., MD, MPP, Chief of the General Medicine
                Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, Co-Founder
                of FIMDM What: Dr. Wennberg and Dr. Mulley will be
                presenting at the Society of General Internal Medicine
                (SGIM) 28th Annual Meeting on the topic:
                "Decision-Quality and the Care of the Patient"

                The Society of General Internal Medicine represents
                general internists, including many primary care
                doctors, based at academic medical centers. This
                session will focus on the implications of the striking
                variations in clinical practices found in different
                hospital market areas and the implications for
                clinical care, including the challenges faced by
                clinicians in bringing together professional knowledge
                and patients' core values to improve health-related
                decisions.

                Dr. Wennberg is well known for his research in
                practice variation, outcomes research, and in studies
                of the importance of patient informed choice in
                surgical decision-making.

                Dr. Mulley has focused on the use of decision theory
                and outcomes research to distinguish between warranted
                and unwarranted variations in clinical practice, and
                he is internationally recognized for his work on the
                development of patient decision aids.

Where:          Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
                500 Canal Street
                New Orleans, LA 70112
                www.sgim.org/am/index.htm

When:           "Decision-Quality and the Care of the Patient" will
                take place on:
                Friday, May 13th from 8:30AM - 10:00AM

About FIMDM:    The primary mission of FIMDM is to help patients
                recognize when decisions are needed regarding medical
                tests, treatments, or the management of long-term
                conditions, and to provide accurate, unbiased
                information about the potential risks and benefits of
                their options. FIMDM developed the concept of Shared
                Decision-Making(R), which forms the basis for the
                Health Coaching services delivered by Health Dialog
                Services Corporation, a FIMDM partner since 1997.