Conferences

📢 ISDM 2026 Conference: Call for Abstracts is OPEN

Key Dates:

  • Abstract submission portal is now OPEN – from September 1, 2025
  • Submission deadline: December 8, 2025, 11:59 PM EST (*Check your local time: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/)
  • Early bird registration begins soon – September 30, 2025

ISDM 2026 Conference

We are excited to announce that the website for the 13th International Shared Decision Making (ISDM) Conference, ISDM 2026: A Wider Lens – Thinking bigger across primary care, cancer, serious illness, and beyond, is live. The abstract submission portal will go live on September 1, 2025. We encourage you to take advantage of the early bird registration, which begins on September 30, 2025. Through the website, you can also learn what northern New Hampshire and Vermont have to offer so that you can make the most of your experience.

We look forward to your participation — on campus or online — for a conference that would not be possible without your valuable contributions.

Keep up to date via the website ISDM 2026.

Past Conferences

Date Location Chair Website
7-10 July, 2024
Lausanne, Switzerland
Jacques Cornuz, Marie-Anne Durand
ISDM2024
19-22 June, 2022
Kolding, Denmark
Karina Dahl Steffensen
7-10 July, 2019
Québec city, Canada
France Légaré
ISDM2019
2-5 July, 2017
Lyon, France
Nora Moumjid
19-22 July, 2015
Sydney, Australia
Lyndal Trevena
2013
Lima, Peru
Victor Montori
ISDM2013
2011
Maastricht, Netherlands
Trudy van der Weijden
ISDM2011
14-17 June, 2009
Boston, US
Michael Barry, Al Mulley
ISDM 2009
2007
Freiburg, Germany
Martin Härter
14-16 June, 2005
Ottawa, Canada
Annette O’Connor
ISDM 2005
2-4 September, 2003
Swansea, UK
Glyn Elwyn, Adrian Edwards
ISDM 2003
1-13 July, 2001
Oxford, UK
Angela Coulter

Societies and conferences with overlapping interests

Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)

To improve health outcomes through the advancement of proactive systematic approaches to clinical decision making and policy-formation in healthcare by providing a scholarly forum that connects and educates researchers, providers, policy-makers, and the public.

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ICCH/ACH

To create a health care system where all patients, healthcare professionals, trainees and researchers feel valued, are treated equitably with respect, compassion, understanding, and are actively engaged in healthcare processes and decisions.

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EACH

To promote healthcare communication between patients, relatives and healthcare practitioners that is effective, patient-centred and evidence-based.

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EBMLive

Jointly hosted by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford and The BMJ, Evidence Live offers a platform that encourages debate on the current status and future directions of Evidence-Based Medicine. This annual conference provides a line-up of world leading speakers whose remit is to stimulate, provoke, entertain, and inspire.

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Preventing Overdiagnosis (POD) conference

To develop strategies to sustain international scientific conferences on preventing overdiagnosis.

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ISEHC International Society for evidence-based healthcare

To develop, and encourage research in, the appropriate usage of evidence in health care decision making and to promote and provide professional and public education in the field.

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Global Implementation Network

To promote and establish coherent and collaborative approaches to implementation practice, science, and policy.

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Right Care Conference

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Cochrane Collaboration

To make healthcare decisions better.

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Minimally Disruptive Medicine

Minimally disruptive medicine (MDM) seeks to advance patient goals for health, health care, and life, using effective care programs designed and implemented in a manner that respects the capacity of patients and caregivers and minimizes the burden of treatment – the healthcare footprint – the care program imposes on their lives.

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CUE

CUE inspires innovative learners by fostering community, personalizing learning, infusing technology, developing leadership, and advocating educational opportunities for all.

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Institute for Patient and Family-Centered Care

Mission: IPFCC advances the understanding and practice of patient- and family-centred care. In partnership with patients, families, and health care professionals, IPFCC seeks to integrate these concepts into all aspects of health care.

IPFCC accomplishes its mission through education, consultation, and technical assistance; materials development and information dissemination; research; and strategic partnerships.


Vision: We at IPFCC envision a profound change in the way health care is provided to individuals and their families. In every encounter, health and human service professionals will seek to build on the strengths of patients and families, enhancing their confidence and competence. The health care delivery system will recognize and encourage patient and family strengths, choice, and independence.

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Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

PCORI was established to fund research that can help patients and those who care for them make better-informed decisions about the healthcare choices they face every day, guided by those who will use that information.

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BMJ International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Mission: To support the movement for healthcare improvement.

Vision: 

  • Improve outcomes for patients and communities
  • Provide practical ideas that can be implemented in the workplace
  • Build coalitions to inspire understanding between healthcare organizations
  • Promote research into quality and safety improvement
  • Foster effective innovation
  • Gather the evidence needed to support local improvement
  • Connect healthcare leaders and practitioners worldwide
  • Translate concern about the quality and safety of care into effective action
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National Institute for Health Research INVOLVE

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International Network for Patient-Centered Care

The “International Network for Patient-Centered Care“ (PCC NET) aims to facilitate and promote professional exchange, networking, and discussion on the topic of patient-centered care between researchers, educators, health care professionals, and patients. The PCC NET serves as a basis for the development of joint, international research projects and collaborations.
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