Published 30 October 2017 Recently Barry successfully defended his thesis "Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life: Preference Aggregation, Exclusion, and Public Policy" at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US. Barry's own description of the thesis follows: The dissertation provides a normative, descriptive, and prescriptive analysis of the design of societal-preference based health-re

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/congratulations-barry-dewitt-phd - 2025-05-05

Published 12 February 2018 We congratulate Johannes today, February 12, on his fiftieth birthday! Bild: Sten Anttila Johannes was celebrated by VBE colleagues and other friends last Friday. He was then presented with a festschrift to his honour with contributions from the VBE collaborators.The theme of the book is quite naturally VBE, from different angles. A flipbook version can be found here, an

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/celebrating-johannes - 2025-05-05

Published 5 April 2018 We welcome Dr. Astrid Kause, from Leeds University, as a new member of the VBE programme! Dr. Kause holds a joint research position at the Centre for Decision Research and the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds and at the University of Lund. Her research focuses on individuals' perceptions of uncertain scientific knowledge, in particular related to

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/new-member-vbe-programme - 2025-05-05

Published 23 August 2018 Under Almedalsveckan anordnade FAMNA - Riskorganisationen för idéburen välfärd - en serie seminarier om ämnen såsom upphandling respektive evidens. Vid seminariet "Vad är evidens - egentligen?" som hölls 4 juli talade Sten om SBUs arbete med evidensutvärdering och satt med i  efterföljande paneldiskussion.De frågor som diskuterades var följande: Hur väl stämmer den evidens

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/sten-anttila-pa-almedalsveckan-2018-english-below - 2025-05-05

Published 7 September 2018 The VBE program welcomes new collaborator Petra Björne! Petra Björne Dr. Björne has a PhD in Cognitive Science and occupies a position as research and development coordinator at the City of Malmö Department for Disability Support. She has been granted a three year research grant by Forte (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare) for the project "Ada

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/petra-bjorne-new-vbe-collaborator - 2025-05-05

Published 3 July 2019 Wändi Bruine de Bruin shares her insights into the conditions that help create effective interdisciplinary collaborations. The blog, that you find here, is based on Wändi's paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/blog-wandi-inderdisciplinary-work - 2025-05-05

Published 5 June 2015 Johannes Persson co-author of article in Science Advances. Focus of this article, "Why resilience is unappealing to social science: Theoretical and empirical investigations of the scientific use of resilience", might not be Science and Proven Experience, but is co-authored by Johannes Persson and has a cool context. Follow the link!http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/4/e

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/general-interest - 2025-05-05

Published 2 December 2015 Collaborator Alexander Davis recently joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. Congratulations! Doctoral student Barry Dewitt, affiliated to the VBE group, was nominated as a Lusted finalist at the Society of Medical Decision-Making's 37th Annual Conference for his paper "Preference Aggr

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/alex-davis-gets-position-assistant-professor-cmu - 2025-05-05

Published 16 March 2016 On January 28 the VBE research group organized a half-day conference on the subject of science and proven experience in medicine. Speakers were: Anders Castor, pediatric onchology, Lund University, Karel Marsal, obsthetrics and gynechology, Lund university, Nils Ståhl, neurosurgery, Lund university hospital, Susanna Axelsson, head of the Swedish Agency for Health Technology

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/mini-conference-vbe-medicine - 2025-05-05

Published 17 March 2016 The series of half day conferences continues. This time talks center around questions related to how science and proven experience is used in legal settings. The conference will be held at the Faculty of Law at Lund university, 13.15 to 16.15 on June 17. Invited speakers are legal practioners and scholars together with collaborators in the VBE research program. The conferen

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/half-day-conference-lund-june-17-vbe-and-law - 2025-05-05

Published 16 June 2016 The goal of Academia Europaea is to, through its members, work for the advancement of research and academic education in all areas, for the public benefit. The Academia Europaea writes in its homepage, http://www.ae-info.org: "The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and poli

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/nils-eric-sahlin-elected-academia-europaea - 2025-05-05

Published 23 June 2016 Alex Davis, Baruch Fischhoff and co-workers at CMU presented one conference paper and two posters at the Annual Meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine in Hollywood, Florida. The presentations dealt with new results regarding comparisons between human and automated assessments of risk of patient deterioration, regarding assessment of patient risk between doctors

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/vbe-presentations-society-general-internal-medicine - 2025-05-05

Published 22 August 2016 For two days, August 17-18, the VBE group met in Biskobshuset in Lund for discussions about ongoing and future work within the program. Focus was on new areas of collaboration between the participants in the program. Both Pittsburgh and Leeds were present at the meeting and we were very happy to welcome three new participants to the group. From CMU, Barry Dewitt, working o

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/annual-meeting-vbe-group - 2025-05-05

Published 24 August 2016 Tamar Krishnamurti, researcher from CMU in Pittsburgh, is associated to the VBE program. She visited the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making in Vancouver and a workshop in Washington, D. C., at the Federal Trade Commission. At both occasions she presented work related to VBE. Engaging a high-risk pregnancy population: Results from a proof-of-concept p

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/presentations-vbe-related-work-vancouver-and-washington-d-c - 2025-05-05

Published 25 August 2016 Two papers by Alex, Baruch and the VBE associated researchers at CMU have been presented lately. One at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Mecical Decision Making, in Vancouver, and one at the Annual Meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine. The papers presented were:Davis, A., Krishnamurti, T., Fischhoff, B., Grace, J., Klobuka, A., Yecies, E., Arnold, J., M

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/presentations-cmu-branch-vbe - 2025-05-05

Published 29 August 2016 Den 26 oktober är det dags för nästa halvdagsseminarium i Lund, denna gång om VBE i skolan. Forskare och beslutsfattare inom skola och utbildning kommer, tillsammans med forskare från VBE-programmet, att föreläsa och diskutera om hur vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet förstås, och bör förstås, i skolans värld. Program för dagen hittar du här. Föranmälan krävs då det är begr

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/halvdagsseminarium-om-vbe-i-skolan-26-oktober - 2025-05-05

Published 27 September 2016 Early 2016, the VBE group arranged a half-day workshop in Lund on the theme VBE in Medicine. Participants from areas such as obstetrics, oncology, neuro surgery, and nursing science provided a variety of perspectives on how science and proven experience is perceived "out there". The talks from the workshop has here been put together in a publication that is the first of

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/vbe-medicine-publication-swedish-workshop-lund - 2025-05-05

Publicerad 23 september 2024 Vem är forskaren vars betydande upptäckter har ökat kunskapen om typ 1-diabetes och som nu banar väg för ett nationellt screeningprogram i Sverige för typ 1-diabetes? Läs diabetesportalens rykande nya artikel så får ni veta vem han är. (nytt fönster).

https://www.teddy.lu.se/artikel/vem-ar-det - 2025-05-05

Publicerad 8 november 2024 Boka in den 14 november för då uppmärksammas världsdiabetesdagen!I Malmö arrangeras föreläsningar och utställare som ställer ut på CRC mellan kl 15:00-19:30. Vår forskare Helena Elding Larsson kommer hålla en föreläsning om screening för typ 1-diabetes. GPPAD kommer ställa ut och berätta om ASTR1D screeningen och AVAnT1A studien.Läs programmet här: Program – Världsdiabet

https://www.teddy.lu.se/artikel/varldsdiabetesdagen-narmar-sig - 2025-05-05

Publicerad 13 november 2024 Professor Åke Lernmark berättar om TEDDY-studien. Den fantastiska TEDDY-studien är snart slut och flera upptäckter har gjorts. Över 160 artiklar är publicerade tack vare TEDDY och fler kommer det att bli. Professor Åke Lernmark, som är PI (Principal Investigator) för TEDDY-studien i Sverige, berättar om upptäckterna som gjorts i TEDDY-studien i videon. Medicinska fakult

https://www.teddy.lu.se/artikel/ny-kunskap-den-storskaliga-teddy-studien-ar-snart-klar - 2025-05-05