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Shared Decision Making Resources provides research, development, and scientific advisory services regarding shared decision making, personalized decision support tools, preference elicitation, study design, and risk communication.

Our mission is to help patients achieve better health through better decision making and communication.

  • An impeccable record of scientific rigor, Nananda Col, MD, is regularly sought out for scientific and technical advice by the private and public sectors.
  • Demonstrated expertise in shared decision making, evidence-based medicine, personalized decision support, medical informatics, decision analysis, scientific review, and outcomes research.
  • A strategic, focused mindset coupled with over 25 years experience as a primary care internist and NIH-funded investigator. Author of over 100 scientific publications.
  • Our validated approach to eliciting patient treatment goals and preferences supports patient-provider communication and Shared Decision Making and is well-suited for tele-health visits.
  • Our Framework for Shared Decision Making streamlines the development and testing of decision support tools and other scientific patient-centered approaches.