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Glyn Elwyn

Professor Glyn Elwyn is a primary care clinician who has research interests in shared decision making, risk communication, the design and evaluation of decision support interventions and the integration of health informatics into clinical practice. He was appointed as an inter-school Link Chair at Cardiff University in May 2005, and leads the Clinical Epidemiology Interdisciplinary Research Group at the School of Medicine. He has published 173 peer-reviewed articles. Together with Professor Adrian Edwards, he convenes the Decision Laboratory (www.decisionlaboratory.com)

Adrian Edwards

Professor Adrian Edwards was appointed as Professor in General Practice at Cardiff University in May 2005. He is a part-time general practitioner in Cwmbran, Gwent and has developed a main research interest in quality in care. In particular he has co-supervised Melody Rhydderch's doctoral thesis on the development and validation of the Maturity Matrix with complementary research studies both in the UK and evaluation of its use in The Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland and UK. His other areas of research centre on risk communication and shared decision making, including Cochrane systematic reviews and intervention trials in clinical practice.

Jozé Braspenning

Jozé Braspenning is a senior researcher at the Centre for Quality of Care Research, University Medical Centre St Radboud in The Netherlands. She is a social psychologist by background. After her PhD program on psychological decision making she started working in the field of health research by taking part in a large scale epidemiological study on psychological and social problems in Amsterdam – a project conducted at the University of Amsterdam and the local Community Centre dealing with mental health problems. She then moved on to a Medical Technology Assessment group at the University of Nijmegen with special interest in quality of life measurements. Research in the field of quality of care started almost ten years ago within the Centre for Quality of Care Research lead by Professor Richard Grol.

Tina Eriksson

Tina Eriksson, MD, PhD is assistant professor and holder of a post. doc. grant in the Department of Family Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. She is a member of the Danish College of Family Medicine and chairs the Risk Communication committee and the Quality Committee. She is a coordinator and member of the leading group of the DAK project - The Danish National Quality Programme. She authors reports on the Danish National Quality Programme, patient safety and accreditation as a part of that project. She is one of the Danish members of the WONCA EQuiP group and is the creator and head of the EQuiP web site.

Richard Grol

Professor Richard Grol is director of the Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), a centre linked to the universities of Nijmegen and Maastricht in The Netherlands. His interests include research and development in the field of quality improvement, evidence based practice and guidelines, and quality assessment and indicators.

He is advisor of the Dutch College of GPs and was the president of the European Association on Quality in Family Practice for 10 years (1992-2002).

Christine Kuch

Christine Kuch, Dipl.-Psych., Dr. rer. medic., Quality Manager in health care, is research officer and lecturer at the Department for Medical Sociology at the University hospital of Cologne, Germany. Research areas are health care organisation, leadership and shared decision making. She has participated in research projects on quality management in medical practice, evaluation of health care, and communication between patient and health professional. She is a solution-focused consultant and trainer in implementation and evaluation of quality management, leadership and project management for health care organisations. Her main interests are change in health care organisations and patient participation.