Fri, May 18, 2012 (All day)
The 2012 Research Colloquium presentations by U-M faculty, fellows and students highlighted research on medical decision making. The colloquium presenters and their topics were as follows:
- Melissa Constantine, PhD: Making a baby in the 21st century: An updated user manual
- Vida Henderson, PharmD, MPH, MFA, and Deliana Ilarraza: Using community-based participatory research and user-centered design approaches in developing an interactive diabetes decision aid
- Naomi Laventhal, MD, MA, and Stephanie Kukora, MD: Resident attitudes toward ethical and medical decision-making for neonates born at the limit of viability
- Kathryn Moseley, MD, MPH: Distrust of pediatricians' sleep advice: Focus group results from the Project for African American Infant Safety
- Laura Scherer, PhD: What's in a name? The effect of a disease label on parents' decision to medicate a colicky infant
- Lauren Smith, MD: Cracking the code: Ethical issues involved in the decision to undergo genetic testing
- Ralph Stern, MD: The myth of individual risk
- Wendy Uhlmann, MS, CGC: The swinging gate: Genetic testing and ethical issues