Steven Woloshin MD, MS is a general internist, Professor of Medicine and Community & Family Medicine and Director of the Center for Medicine and the Media at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (Lebanon, NH, USA). His research addresses the excessive fear and hope created by exaggerations, and selective reporting in medical journals, advertising, and the health news. He has worked to improve communication of medical evidence to physicians, journalists, policy makers and the public. He is co-author of 2 books: Know Your Chances and Overdiagnosed, his essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times and he is a founding-organizer of the international Preventing Overdiagnosis meeting sponsored by BMJ, Dartmouth, Consumers Union and Oxford and Bond Universities, and founded the Lisa Schwartz Foundation for Truth in Medicine. He serves on the editorial board of JAMA Internal Medicine and the advisory board of the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication.
He is the recipient of the American Medical Writer's Association John P. McGovern award “for pre-eminent contribution in research and enhancing the communication of medical evidence” and the Society for Medical Decision Making's John M. Eisenberg Award "in recognition of your exemplary leadership in the practical application of medical decision making research.
