The Dartmouth Institute
Faculty Biographies
Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
Andrew Thomson, Jr. Fellow in Shared Decision Making
Co-Director, Center for Informed Choice, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Director, 2007 – 2010 TDI Summer Institutes on Informed Patient Choice
Founding Research Director, Center for Shared Decision Making, Dartmouth/Hitchcock Medical Center
Andrew Thomson, Jr. Fellow in Shared Decision Making
Co-Director, Center for Informed Choice, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Director, 2007 – 2010 TDI Summer Institutes on Informed Patient Choice
Founding Research Director, Center for Shared Decision Making, Dartmouth/Hitchcock Medical Center
Contact:
- 35 Centerra Parkway (HB 7251)
- Room 3024
- Lebanon, NH 03756
- Phone: (603) 653-0866
- Email: Hilary.Llewellyn-Thomas@dartmouth.edu
- Assistant: Lee Marquay
- Asst. Phone: (603) 653-0867
- Asst. Email: Letha.Marquay@Dartmouth.edu
Education:
B.Sc. (1968) Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
M.Sc. (1977) Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
Ph.D. (1983) Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
M.Sc. (1977) Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
Ph.D. (1983) Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Experience and Interests:
National Health Research Scholar, National Health Research and Development Program, Health and Welfare Canada, 1989-99
Co-recipient of the John Eisenberg Award in Recognition of Exemplary Leadership in Practical Application of Medical Decision Making Research. 2004, presented by The Society for Medical Decision Making, with Annette O’Connor, Ph.D.
Dr. Llewellyn-Thomas’s research focuses on the issues involved in incorporating patients’ perspectives into health care. Specific areas include methods for measuring patients’ attitudes toward experienced and anticipated health states; preferences for treatment alternatives, involvement in treatment decisions, and participation in clinical trials; attitudes toward the time involved in waiting for, undergoing, and recovering from treatment; understanding of the risk/benefit probabilities involved in different treatment options; the concepts of decisional conflict and decision support as a clinical skill; and the evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions designed to support shared decision making.
Dr. Llewellyn-Thomas teaches a TDI graduate course that is designed to help investigators study questions such as the following:
- How do patients formulate, report, and act upon their preferences?
- How do they perceive, understand, and accept or reject different levels of risk?
- How can practitioners help patients who are facing uncertain decision situations in which a lot is at stake?
Co-recipient of the John Eisenberg Award in Recognition of Exemplary Leadership in Practical Application of Medical Decision Making Research. 2004, presented by The Society for Medical Decision Making, with Annette O’Connor, Ph.D.
Dr. Llewellyn-Thomas’s research focuses on the issues involved in incorporating patients’ perspectives into health care. Specific areas include methods for measuring patients’ attitudes toward experienced and anticipated health states; preferences for treatment alternatives, involvement in treatment decisions, and participation in clinical trials; attitudes toward the time involved in waiting for, undergoing, and recovering from treatment; understanding of the risk/benefit probabilities involved in different treatment options; the concepts of decisional conflict and decision support as a clinical skill; and the evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions designed to support shared decision making.
Dr. Llewellyn-Thomas teaches a TDI graduate course that is designed to help investigators study questions such as the following:
- How do patients formulate, report, and act upon their preferences?
- How do they perceive, understand, and accept or reject different levels of risk?
- How can practitioners help patients who are facing uncertain decision situations in which a lot is at stake?
Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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