How do we...
- ...improve the way health care providers present information to patients?
- ...understand the links between motivation, stress, and health?
- ...promote empirically informed bioethics policies and practices?
The Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine brings together behavioral scientists and clinicians, from a wide array of fields in social science and medicine, to research health behavior and decision making, with the goal of improving health care policy and practice.
Center Highlights
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Research News: Conflicts of Interest in Cancer Studies
Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, has found that 29% of cancer research published in high-impact journals disclosed a conflict of interest, including industry funding of the study or a study author who was an industry employee. "Given the...
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Decision of the Month: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury
How should the US judicial system determine compensation for “pain and suffering”? Take a look at a complicated case.
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Center Update: Job Opening at CBDSM
Temporary ActionScript/Flash/Flex Programmer: Email karis@med.umich.edu for information on this project-based position working on risk graphics.
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Press Coverage: "Perfectly Happy" in the Boston Globe
Peter A. Ubel, MD, spoke to the Boston Globe about the science of measuring happiness. Check it out at
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Grant: NIH Funding for Major Bioethics Project
CBDSM's Scott Kim, MD, PhD, has recently been funded by the NIH for a project on therapeutic misconception and the ethics of sham surgery. Ethicists have raised concerns that elderly patients with a progressively debilitating disease...
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Research News: "Free Market Madness" Published
Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is at Odds with Economics--and Why It Matters is the third book by CBDSM's Peter Ubel, MD. Dr. Ubel explains that our free-market economy is based on the assumption that we always act in...
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