SSRI's year-long faculty-in-residence program brings Duke faculty members from multiple departments and schools together in a stimulating intellectual setting to explore cutting-edge research questions with the goal of creating and communicating new knowledge through research publications and in the classroom.

Each year’s Fellows program is organized around a coherent topic chosen through solicitation of ideas from the community and from discussion with SSRI’s Advisory Board. SSRI is currently seeking proposals for topics for the 2009/2010 seminar.  More information is available here or by contacting ssri@duke.edu.  Applications are due by 5 p.m. September 19th, 2008.

Application (pdf)

The topic for 2008/2009 is Medical Decision Making. Seminar conveners are John Payne, from the Fuqua School of Business, and Kevin Weinfurt, from the Department of Medical Psychiatry.

2008-2009 Faculty Fellows:
John Payne, Convener
Kevin Weinfurt, Convener
Dan Ariely, Fuqua School of Business
Donald (Chip) Bailey, School of Nursing
Mary Frances Luce, Fuqua School of Business
Gillian Sanders, Duke Clinical Research Institute

This group plans to build on the work of the Interdisciplinary Medical Decision Making Initiative (IMDMI).  IMDMI, which is jointly funded by the University and the School of Medicine, reflects Duke’s institutional commitment to high-quality research in medical decision making and aims to promote better decision making by caregivers and patients. Visit the Web site for more info.