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Glyn Elwyn

Glyn Elwyn is a clinician, researcher, and innovator. He is a tenured professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, USA, and at the Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands.

He has Visiting Professor positions at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and at University College London, UK.

After reading the humanities he qualified in medicine, completed a Masters in Education, and obtained his doctorate in 2001 at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands, with Professor Richard Grol.

Glyn Elwyn studies coproduction, shared decision making, and the application of machine learning to digital recordings of clinical encounters.

He leads an international interdisciplinary team examining the implementation of shared decision making into clinical settings. He developed Option Grid TM patient decision aids, evidence-based tools that empower people to choose the care that suits them best, licensed in 2017 to EBSCO Health.

He has developed the following measures: Observer OPTION and collaboRATE, measures of shared decision making, integRATE (care integration); collaboRATE (care for those with serious illness). He is the lead editor of Shared Decision Making: Evidence-Based Patient Choice, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2016. Peer-reviewed publications: 425, H-index 103.

Contact glynelwyn@gmail.com
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Web www.glynelwyn.com

Dan Lasserson

Dan Lasserson is Professor of Acute Ambulatory Care at the University of Warwick, working clinically in the Acute Hospital at Home services for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. He is a founder member of the UK Hospital at Home Society. He has previously worked in primary care as well as his current role in hospital medicine and is the Theme Lead for Acute Care Interfaces in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands. He is also Theme lead for Acute Ambulatory Care in the NIHR Community Healthcare MedTech and In-Vitro Diagnostic Cooperative (MIC). He is the chief investigator of an NIHR Policy Research Programme study examining the optimal acute medical care delivery model during winter and waves of COVID-19. He leads the NIHR STOPAPE trial on the management of sub-segmental pulmonary embolism and also works on the NIHR CONDOR study, examining point of care tests for COVID-19, PROTECT-CH examining prophylaxis for COVID in care homes and AVID-CC, a Wellcome Trust Therapeutics Accelerator funded trial examining how a TNF antibody could improve outcomes for patients in care homes with COVID-19. His work for the Society for Acute Medicine includes leading its national hospital benchmarking audit (SAMBA), sitting on the Society for Acute Medicine’s Research Committee and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Acute Medicine Journal. He is a member of the Steering Group for NHS England’s Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) programme.

Peter Nilsson

PROFESSOR, CONSULTANT, DIRECTOR STRATEGIC RESEARCH AREA EPIHEALTH, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, SOUTHERN DENMARK UNIVERSITY, ODENSE

Full bio: https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/persons/peter-m-nilsson(d4f81cfb-cf32-492f-991f-f84f66734b69).html

Runolfur Palsson

Runolfur Palsson is Professor of Medicine at the University of Iceland, and Director of Internal Medicine Services and Emergency Services at Landspitali–The National University Hospital of Iceland. Dr. Palsson received his Medical Degree from the University of Iceland in 1985 and completed a residency in internal medicine at Hartford Hospital and University of Connecticut in 1991, and a fellowship in nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston in 1996. He then returned to Iceland where he became Consultant in Nephrology at Reykjavik Hospital and Landspitali–The National University Hospital. Dr. Palsson was named Chief of the University Hospital‘s Division of Nephrology in 2004 and served simultaneously as Director of the Organ Transplantation Program. In 2019, Dr. Palsson became Director of the Internal Medicine Services at Landspitali–The National University Hospital.
Dr. Palsson was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Iceland in 1999 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and to Professor of Medicine in 2014. His research focuses primarily on the epidemiology and genetics of chronic kidney disease and kidney stone disease. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nephrology.
Dr. Palsson served as President of the Icelandic Society of Internal Medicine from 2001 to 2016. He was Secretary of the European Union of Medical Specialists Section of Internal Medicine from 2008 to 2012 and is currently Vice-President of the Section. Dr. Palsson was President of the European Federation of Internal Medicine from 2016 to 2018. He is presently a member of the European Board of Internal Medicine.

Runolfur Palsson, M.D., FRCP (Hon), FACP, FASN
Professor of Medicine, University of Iceland
Director, Internal Medicine and Emergency Services, Landspitali–The National University Hospital of Iceland Fossvogur
108 Reykjavík
Iceland
Email: runolfur@landspitali.is

Jean-Louis VINCENT

Professor Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD, is currently Professor of intensive care medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium.
He is a Past-President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society (ESS), the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ), and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine and was made a Baron by the King of Belgium. He also received numerous international awards.
He has signed over 1000 peer-reviewed articles, 400 book chapters and 1000 abstracts. He has edited more than 112 books, and is the editor-in-chief of Critical Care, Current Opinion in Critical Care, and ICU Management & Practice. His name appears more than 1300 times in Pubmed, and his work has been cited more than 220,000 times; his H-index is 183.

Rita F. Redberg, 

Rita F. Redberg, MD, MSc, is a cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco since 1990 and Core Faculty, Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Dr. Redberg is the Chief Editor of JAMA Internal Medicine (formerly Archives of ) since 2009 during which the Impact Factor more than doubled and is now over 20. She spearheaded the journal’s new focus on health care reform and “less is more”, which highlights areas of health care with no known benefit and definite risks. Her research interests are in the area of health policy and technology assessment, and how to promote high value care, focusing on high risk medical devices as well as the need for inclusion of women in clinical trials of such devices.

She has had a long standing commitment to women and heart disease and cofounded the UCSF Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in 1997. She was honored to receive the Women’s Day Red Dress Award in 2011 for her leadership in the area of heart disease in women and the Bay Area American Heart Association Red Dress Award in 2010. She is a proud member of the Women’s Heart Alliance.

Dr. Redberg recently completed a 6 year term on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on Medicare payment issues. She also served on the Medicare Evidence, Development and Coverage Advisory Committee from 2003-2006 and was reappointed as Chairwoman of MEDCAC from 2012 - 2016. Dr Redberg is a member of the California Technology Assessment Forum, the Medical Policy Technology and Advisory Committee, Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Advisory Panel and served on the Food and Drug Administration Cardiovascular Devices Expert Panel. She was a member of the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) Clinical Quality Committee and served on the Quality in Technology Work Group. She chaired the AHA/ACC Writing Group on Primary Prevention Performance Measures.

She has given Congressional testimony multiple times in hearings related to the issue of balancing safety and innovation in medical device approvals. Dr. Redberg worked in the office of Senator Hatch and with the Senate Judiciary Committee on FDA-related matters during her tenure as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, 2003-2006.

Dr. Redberg was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine, IOM). She was a member of the IOM’s Learning Health Care Committee, which produced the report Best Care at Lower Cost in September 2012 and  of the National Academy of Medicine writing group on A Learning System for Military Trauma Care.

Dr. Redberg has authored several books, including You Can Be a Woman Cardiologist, Heart Healthy: The Step-by-Step Guide to Preventing and Healing Heart Disease, and Betty Crocker Cookbook for Women: the Complete Guide to Women’s Health and Wellness at Every Stage of Life. She has done hundreds of radio, television and newspaper interviews on health related topics including being featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, LA Times, National Public Radio and the Today Show. Dr. Redberg graduated from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. She was awarded a Thouron Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania to study in Great Britain for a year and thus has a Masters of Science in Health Policy and Administration from the London School of Economics.