MDM Policy & Practice
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MDM Policy & Practice (MDM P&P) is an Open Access journal that offers rigorous and systematic applications of decision science that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health-policy development. MDM P&P focuses on the application of current theories, methods, and approaches from a variety of disciplines to important problems facing clinical and health policy decision-makers, including patients, providers, producers, and payers. For more information, please visit the Journal website here: https://www.journals.smdm.org/about-mpp/.
| Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, PhD | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States) |
| Lauren E. Cipriano, PhD | University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) |
| Neal V. Dawson, MD (Emeritus) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) |
| Mark Helfand, MD, MPH, 2005-2012 | Oregon Health & Sciences University (Portland, United States) |
| Harold C. Sox, MD, MACP | Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, United States) |
| Helen A. Colby, PhD | Indiana University Kelley School of Business (Indianapolis, United States) |
| Stefano Conti, MSc, PhD | NHS England (London, United Kingdom) |
| Neal V. Dawson, MD (Emeritus) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) |
| Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD | Stanford University (California, United States) |
| Joanna L. Hart, MD, MSHP | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, United States) |
| David W. Hutton, PhD | University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, United States) |
| Olga Kostopoulou, MSc, PhD | Imperial College London (United Kingdom) |
| Daniel D. Matlock, MD, MPH | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, United States |
| Eleanor M. Pullenayegum, PhD | Hospital for Sick Children, Canada |
| Donald A. Redelmeier, MD | University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) |
| Louise B. Russell, PhD | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Marilyn M. Schapira, MD, MPH | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, United States) |
| Paul A. Scuffham, PhD | Griffith University(Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia) |
| Victoria A. Shaffer, PhD | University of Missouri (Columbia, United States) |
| Kenneth J. Smith, MD, MS | University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, MD, PhD, MPH | University of Oslo (Norway), University of Southern Denmark (Odense) |
| James E. Stahl, MD, CM, MPH | Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, United States) |
| Ewout W. Steyerberg, MSc, PhD | University Medical Center Utrecht (The Netherlands) |
| Matthijs Versteegh, PhD | Huygens & Versteegh B.V. (Zwijndrecht, Netherlands) |
| Erika A. Waters, PhD, MPH | Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States) |
| Nicky J. Welton, PhD | University of Bristol (United Kingdom) |
| Torbjørn Wisløff, MSc, PhD | Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway |
| Feng Xie, BSc, MSc, PhD | McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) |
| Jorie Butler, PhD | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, United States) |
| Kerri L. Cavanaugh, MD, MHS | Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tennessee, United States) |
| Su-Hsin Chang, PhD, SM | Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States) |
| Jarrod E. Dalton, PhD | Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University (Ohio, United States) |
| Koen Degeling, PhD | GSK (Amersfoort, The Netherlands) |
| Elamin H. Elbasha, PhD | Merck & Co. (West Point, Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Paul K. J. Han, MD, MA, MPH | National Cancer Institute (Rockville, Maryland, United States) |
| Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD, MPH | University of Illinois at Chicago (United States) |
| Quang A. Le, PhD | Western University of Health Sciences (Pomona, California, United States) |
| Nan Luo, PhD | National University of Singapore (Singapore, Singapore) |
| Daniel D. Matlock, MD, MPH | University of Colorado Denver (Aurora, United States) |
| Eric S. Meadows, PhD | Flatiron Health (New York, United States) |
| Wendy L. Nelson, PMH, PhD, RN | National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, Maryland, United States) |
| Semra Ozdemir, MS, PhD | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, United States) |
| Shijie (Kate) Ren, PhD | University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, England) |
| Aaron M. Scherer, MA, PhD | University of Iowa (Iowa City, United States) |
| Kevin E. Tiede, PhD | University of Erfurt (Erfurt, Germany) |
| Andrew J. Vickers, PhD | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York, United States) |
| Todd H. Wagner, PhD | Stanford University (California, United States) |
| Anton Avanceña, MS, PhD | The University of Texas at Austin (United States) |
| Sarah E. Bates, MSc, PhD | University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, England) |
| Mark Clements, PhD | Karolinska Institutet (Solna, Sweden) |
| Helen A. Colby, PhD | Indiana University Kelley School of Business (Indianapolis, United States) |
| Risha Gidwani, DrPH | University of Colorado School of Medicine and RAND Corporation (Aurora, United States) |
| Sarah L. Goff, MD, PhD | University of Massachusetts, Amherst (United States) |
| Aubri S. Hoffman (Rose), PhD, MS | Axle Informatics/NCATS/NIH (Bethesda, Maryland, United States); The University of Texas at Austin (United States) |
| David W. Hutton, PhD | University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, United States) |
| Ellen A. Lipstein, MD, MPH | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Ohio, United States) |
| Andrew Lloyd, DPhil, BSc | Acaster Lloyd Consulting Limited (London, United Kingdom) |
| Michelle McDowell, PhD | University of Potsdam (Germany) |
| Brooke Nickel, PhD | University of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia) |
| Mari Palta, PhD | University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States) |
| Ankur Pandya, MPH, PhD | Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) |
| Adam T. Perzynski, MA, PhD | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) |
| Valerie F. Reyna, PhD | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, United States) |
| Bram Roudijk, PhD | EuroQol Research Foundation (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) |
| Laura D. Scherer, PhD | University of Colorado School of Medicine (Aurora, United States) |
| Karen R. Sepucha, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston, United States) |
| Haitham W. Tuffaha, PhD | University of Queensland (Australia) |
| Kathrene Valentine, MS, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston, United States) |
| Vera Vennedey, MSc | University of Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) |
| Reza Yaesoubi, PhD | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, United States) |
| Jinyi Zhu, MPH, PhD | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, United States) |
| Fernando Alarid-Escudero, PhD | Stanford University (California, United States) |
| Wändi Bruine de Bruin, PhD, MSc | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, United States) |
| Barry D. Dewitt, PhD | Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) |
| Darryl T. Gray, MD, ScD, FACC, FAHA | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia, United States) |
| Janel Hanmer, MD, PhD | University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Felicity W.K. Harper, PhD | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan, United States) |
| Anna Heath, MMath, PhD | University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health and SickKids Research Institute (Ontario, Canada) |
| Jolyn Hersch, PhD, MAS | University of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia) |
| Karen Hicklin, PhD, MS | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, United States) |
| Ashley J. Housten, OTD, MSCI, MPA | Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States) |
| Robert L. Jayes, MD | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| Kristin Maki, PhD | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan, United States) |
| Donna Rowen, PhD, MSc | University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, United Kingdom) |
| Mohsen Sadatsafavi, MD, PhD | University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) |
| Gustav Tinghög, PhD Gustav | Linköping University (Sweden) |
| Thomas Trikalinos, MD, PhD | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, United States) |
| Thomas Valley, MD, MSc | University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor, United States) |
| Matthijs Versteegh, PhD | Huygens & Versteegh B.V. (Zwijndrecht, Netherlands) |
| Nyantara Wickramasekera, MSc | University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, United Kingdom) |
| Haoyang Yan, PhD | University of Alabama at Birmingham (United States) |
| Alan J. Schwartz, PhD, 2013-2020 | University of Illinois at Chicago (United States) |
| Katherine Grandinetti, BS | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States) |
| Stacy Wennstrom, MA | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States) |
MDM Policy & Practice is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Authors are strongly encouraged to review the Medical Decision Making Policy & Practice website for information on manuscript requirements, manuscript submission, and the peer review process (single blind) at MDM P&P before submitting your manuscript at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mdm-pp. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of MDM P&P will be reviewed.
If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) is payable. This APC covers the cost of publication and ensures that your article will be freely available online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license. SMDM members pay an article processing charge of $1,340, while non-members pay an article processing charge of $1,675. This will be payable upon acceptance.
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