Glyn Elwyn

Professor Glyn Elwyn has a Research Chair at Cardiff University and works part-time in general medical practice. He is an Associate Editor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare and a visiting professor at the Centre for Quality of Care Research, Nijmegen and Maastricht Universities, The Netherlands. His interests include, shared decision making, risk communication and quality improvement.

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Adrian Edwards

Professor Adrian Edwards was appointed as Professor in General Practice at Cardiff University in May 2005. He is a part-time general practitioner in Cwmbran, Gwent and has developed a main research interest in quality in care. In particular he has co-supervised Melody Rhydderch's doctoral thesis on the development and validation of the Maturity Matrix with complementary research studies both in the UK and evaluation of its use in The Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland and UK. His other areas of research centre on risk communication and shared decision making, including Cochrane systematic reviews and intervention trials in clinical practice. 

 

 

Jacky Boivin

 

Dr Jacky Boivin is a Reader in Psychology at Cardiff University. Her research aims to bring about a more systematic and research oriented perspective to the investigation of psychological issues in reproductive health. Research on the role and effectiveness of psychological interventions in medical contexts aims to develop interventions that minimise negative affect in people experiencing threatening medical events, for example, the effectiveness of brief coping interventions and decision-aids.  

 

Paulina Bravo

 

Paulina Bravo joined Cardiff University as a PhD student from Chile where she held the position of Associate Instructor and co-investigator in the Women’s Health Research Team at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Her PhD project is entitled: Using web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies to develop decision support for patients – the cutting edge of user involvement in health? An evaluation of process and outcome. 

 

Myfanwy Davies


Dr Myfanwy Davies is a NIHR Post-doctorial Research Fellow at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University. Her research interests include sexual health; health communication; patient decision making; lay health beliefs and health and social care policy. 

 

 

Marie-Anne Durand


Dr Marie-Anne Durand recently completed her PhD at Cardiff University before starting her new role as Research Fellow at the Centre for Behavioural Medicine, University of London. Her PhD project assessed information and decision support needs of women who have been offered amniocentesis testing in order to develop and field-test amnioDex: a decision explorer for amniocentesis (www.amniodex.com). Her research interests lie predominantly in the field of decision-making, risk communication and development of theory-based interventions. 

 

Dominick Frosch


Dominick L. Frosch is a Visiting Fellow at Cardiff University and a clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor at University of California, Los Angeles. His research is focused on the intersections between macro-level health communication and micro-level changes in the process of how individual medical decisions are reached, as well as the impact of new diagnostic technologies on what people perceive as pathways to health and wellness. In addition, he is interested in the design and use of interactive technology interventions to facilitate health care consumer participation in clinical care. 

 

 

Alex Hardisty


Alex Hardisty is Manager of Cardiff School of Computer Science, Health Informatics Research and is a Chartered IT Professional Fellow of the British Computer Society. He is presently Co-Investigator on the project: "An Innovative Multidisciplinary Patient-centric Early Detection Care Model", an EPSRC funded exploratory project for Grand Challenges in Information Driven Health. His research interests include health informatics; information-driven health and the use of ICT for decision support. 

 

 

Natalie Joseph-Williams


Natalie Joseph-Williams is a Research Associate at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University. Her current work includes a randomised control trial of the effects of a web-based decision support intervention for PSA testing on informed decision making in men (www.prosdex.com). Her main interests include patient decision support, quality of decision support interventions and measurement of decision regret. 

 

France Légaré

 

France Légaré is a collaborator for grants for Decision Laboratory and has held the title of Canada Research Chair in the Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care, junior level since June 2006. She has practised family medicine in Québec since 1990 and is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Laval University.  France has directed the Cochrane site of the CHUQ Research Centre and of Laval University within the Canadian Cochrane network since 1999. Her research interest include shared decision making, knowledge transfer, tools to help decision making and dyadic approaches.

 

Emma Melbourne

 

Dr Emma Melbourne is an Associate Academic Fellow at Cardiff University. She has an interest in maximising the patient's role in their health care and is working in the area of shared decision making and maximising the level of information available to patients to facilitate decision choice.  Other research interests include optimising patient knowledge to allow self management of chronic conditions. 

 

 

 

Tayla Miron-Shatz

 

Talya Miron-Shatz is the Decision Laboratory Collaborator on Publications. Talya is a psychologist, a Research Scholar at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Her main focus is medical decision making, specifically the way patients and health professionals alike comprehend medical numeric information. She is involved in developing DelibeRate, a scale for measuring the quality of decisions, along with Glyn Elwyn, Adrian Edwards, and Victor Montori. Talya is dedicated to the mission of helping patients and medical professionals better understand the information they receive, thereby making truly informed choices. 

 

Victor Montori

Victor Montori is a collaborator on projects for Decision Laboratory and an Associate professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnestoa, USA. Dr Montori also serves as a director of research and education for the acclaimed SPARC Innovation Program, a Mayo program focused on identifying new ways of delivering healthcare. His research interest include clinical decision making in patients with chronic conditions (such as diabetes) and the relation between the quality of decision making and patient outcomes; systematic reviews and meta-anaylses; and evidence-based clinical practice.

 

Robert Newcombe

 

Professor Robert Newcombe has worked as a medical statistician in Cardiff University since 1971. He has collaborated with researchers from all specialities of medicine and health related sciences, including decision making in primary care. Robert has refereed for a wide range of statistical and health-related journals, and has served on the editorial boards of Statistical Methods in Medical Research and several clinical journals. 

 

 

Susan Peirce


Dr Susan Peirce is a Research Associate at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University. Her research interests include medical physics (physiological measurement, medical devices, non-ionising radiation); telemedicine; cardiovascular physiology and health infomatics.

 

 

Mareike Stiel

 

Mareike Stiel is PhD student at Cardiff University. Her research is focussed on decision-making in the context of embryo disposition. Patients who undergo fertility treatment usually have more embryos generated than can be safely transferred to a woman’s uterus. These surplus embryos often remain cryopreserved beyond the duration of legal storage. One aim of Mareike's research is to identify factors associated with the decision-making process. In particular, she is looking at how people resolve the decision and what keeps some from deciding in order to develop a decision support intervention to facilitate and encourage decision making about surplus embryos.

 

Cherry-Ann Waldron

Cherry-Ann Waldron is a PhD student at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University supervised by Professor Glyn Elwyn. Her research aims to develop and evaluate a web-based risk calculator to predict cardiovascular disease.

 

Odette Wegwarth


Visiting Fellow at Cardiff University, Dr Odette Wegwarth is a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin and has worked at the Center for Risk Literacy since April 2008.  Her research is currently focusing on how emotions and moral standards towards risk would shape doctors’ and patients’ decision making as well as on what statistic format fosters and limits the understanding of risk information in these groups. Insights from this research are meant to be transferred into the continuing education of physicians and also into the development of patient brochures.

 

 

Pat Wright


Pat Wright is a Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University. Pat is interested in how diverse cognitive processes underpin adults’ use of digital information e.g. when reading healthcare leaflets and using interactive decision aids, to accomplish goals such as taking decisions. Her research explores how the linguistic, visual and multimedia design of information can help adults achieve their reading goals, and how digital technologies can facilitate people’s use of information rich resources.