Welcome, Rob!!

Cheryl B. Aspy, Ph.D.
Professor, Family & Preventive Medicine
OUHSC - 900 NE 10th St.
Oklahoma City, OK  73104
Voice: 405-271-8000 x 32209
Fax: 405-271-2784


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert M. Hamm [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 10:05 AM
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Subject: Introduction


I am a cognitive psychologist, member of OUHSC Oklahoma City Faculty, and
primarily I do research on decision making. The research includes decision
analysis and cost effectiveness analysis (how physicians OUGHT to treat),
descriptions of physician decision making (how they DO treat) and
descriptions of patient decision making. The focus of these descriptions is
how people learn and use the concepts relevant to the decision theory
concepts - probability of diagnosis, probability of outcomes, value of
outcomes, and so on.

I am interested in educating physicians in the concepts of decision
analysis, evidence based medicine, the statistical analysis of data. I have
some excel spreadsheets, that illustrate, and also do, some of the basic
calculations needed for this way of thinking, and they can be downloaded at
http://www.fammed.ouhsc.edu/robhamm/cdmcalc.htm . There are good tutorials
for some of these, made with the help of Rob Freedman at Information
Technology on campus.

I am involved in the summer research program for first year medical
students, the Future Physicians for Oklahoma Research Track. We do not do
the fund raising, but when we have a student who is affiliated with a
distant cite, they get oriented here and then do their research project at
that cite, often in collaboration with the host physician.

Rob

Robert M. Hamm, PhD
Clinical Decision Making Program
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
900 NE 10th St, Oklahoma City OK 73104
405/271-8000 ext 32306  [log in to unmask]
http://www.fammed.ouhsc.edu/robhamm/index.htm