Prof. Kirsten McCaffery
President
Location: Australia
Kirsten McCaffery is a Professor of Behavioural Science and holds a Principal Research Fellowship at the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney. She has developed and evaluated patient decision aids across a range of clinical areas and has a special interest in supporting shared decision making in populations with lower health literacy and among those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged.
Prof. Anik Giguère
Vice-President
Location: Canada
Anik Giguère is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Laval University in Québec city. She studies the design and implementation of decision aids and educational programs to enable older adults to make health decisions based on evidence and on their experiences and values.
Prof. Paulina Bravo
Secretary
Location: Chile
Paulina Bravo is the director of patient education and involvement at the Fundación Arturo López Pérez, an OECI Cancer Center in Chile. She also leads the research group on patient involvement in cancer care, and is part of the accreditation board at OECI.
Dr Fülöp Scheibler
Treasurer
Location: Germany
Fülöp Scheibler is senior associate at the National Competency Centre for Shared Decision Making at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany. He is also Co-founder and Partner of the SHARE TO CARE. Patient Centered Care GmbH. Since 2018 he was involved in the development of >80 evidence based online patient decision aids for the project “Making SDM A Reality” in Kiel. His research interest is focusing on large scale implementation of SDM, evidence based medicine and health services research.
Declaration of Interest
Dr Marla Clayman
Board Member
Location: United States
Dr. Clayman is a dedicated health services and health communication researcher, specializing in patient engagement and healthcare decision-making. She is a Research Health Scientist at the US Veterans Health Administration and an Associate Professor at the UMass Chan Medical School. She works to create and sustain environments that help patients and families receive and use information that meets their emotional and cognitive needs. She has been a Fulbright Scholar in Norway and held numerous professional leadership positions.
Declaration of Interest
Dr Alejandra Martínez
Board Member: ECR Represetative
Location: United States
Alejandra Martínez is a research scientist at Dartmouth College. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). Her doctoral thesis aimed to understand healthcare in the interaction between pregnant migrant women and health professionals in Chile’s public health system. Her main research interests are health disparities and migration, power dynamics, patient-centered care, and shared decision-making.
Declaration of Interest
Dr Natalie Joseph-Williams
Board Member
Location: United Kingdom
Natalie is a Reader in Improving Patient Care at Cardiff University's School of Medicine, and Associate Director of the Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre. Natalie has over seventeen years experience of researching, teaching, and implementing shared decision making, working closely with policy makers, healthcare organisations, clinical teams, and patients across the UK to embed this approach into routine clinical care.
Declaration of Interest
ECR Committee
Dr. Simone Kienlin
ECR Committee President
Location: Norway
Simone Kienlin is a Special Advisor for Shared Decision Making at the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority. Simone leads a strategic regional implementation project aimed at enhancing the uptake of shared decision making through a comprehensive, multi-faceted implementation strategy across specialist healthcare services. Her work and research focus on the implementation and evaluation of shared decision making in healthcare, including healthcare professional training, patient-reported experience measures (PREMs), patient decision aids, decision coaching, and evidence-based health information to support informed health choices.
Dr. Eman Abukmail
ECR Committee Member
Location: Australia
Greig Taylor
ECR Committee Member
Location: -
Salar Khaleghzadegan
ECR Committee Member
Location: -
Laura Vriese
ECR Committee Member
Location: The Netherlands
Laura Vriese is a final-year PhD candidate at the Department of Family Medicine of Maastricht University. Her research focuses on strengthening values clarification within shared decision-making in general practice, particularly for patients with limited health literacy and multimorbidity. Through her work, she aims to support more person-centred consultations and better alignment between decisions and patients’ individual values and context.
Reed Bratches
ECR Committee Member
Location: USA
Reed Bratches is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is interested in the decision-making needs and decisional choices of family caregivers of persons with dementia, with a special focus on developing tools to support medication management and adherence while reducing administration errors.
Andrea Duarte-Diaz
ECR Committee Member
Location: Spain
Andrea is a PhD candidate in Psychology. She currently works as a research technician at the Canary Islands Health Research Institute Foundation (FIISC) and the Evaluation Unit of the Canary Islands Health Service (SESCS), where she actively contributes as a member of the Person-Centered Group. Passionate about advancing mental health, health literacy, patient empowerment, and shared decision-making, Andrea has led and collaborated on various regional, national, and international projects in these fields. Her work within a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agency also emphasizes evidence-based practice and the use of evidence synthesis to inform health policy and decision-making.
Yumi Aoki
ECR Committee Member
Location: Japan
Yumi Aoki is an Associate Professor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing at the Graduate School of Nursing Science, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research primarily focuses on shared decision-making in psychiatry and the development and implementation of patient decision aids for individuals with mental health conditions.
Hyeyoung Hwang
ECR Committee Member
Location: United States
Hyeyoung is a dual DNP/PhD student at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing with over a decade of experience as an oncology nurse. Building on her clinical background and master’s degrees in nursing and bioethics, her research focuses on the intersection of clinical practice and ethical issues in patient decision-making and end-of-life care. For her dissertation, she explores shared decision-making (SDM) among older adults with cancer, with a particular interest in supporting their readiness to engage in SDM.
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