Bio-Semra

Dr Semra OZDEMIR

Associate Professor

Qualifications: B.S., Ph.D.

Email: semra.ozdemir@duke.edu


Brief Biography:

Dr Semra Ozdemir is an Associate Professor at Lien Centre for Palliative Care and Signature Program in Health Services and Systems Research. She holds a joint appointment at the Department of Population Health Sciences and Duke Clinical Research Institute at Duke University. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Ozdemir’s research focuses on three areas of medical decision making: 1) assessing individuals’ preferences and values for healthcare services and products, 2) understanding the medical decision-making process among patients, their family caregivers, and clinicians, and 3) developing decision aids or tools to help individuals make better-informed medical decisions. She uses survey methods, cohort studies, and implementation science principles to conduct research in these areas.

Dr. Ozdemir is an expert in stated-preference methods and shared decision-making tools and has led the development of a decision aid for older patients with end-stage kidney disease who are considering dialysis or kidney supportive care in Singapore. She has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has served on the editorial boards for Medical Decision Making and Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. Since September 2023, she has been serving as an Associate Editor for Value in Health. She is also the co-chair of the Shared Decision Making Special Interest Group for the Society for Medical Decision Making.

Dr-Semra-OZDEMIR 

Affiliations:

  • Associate Professor in Lien Centre for Palliative Care
  • Associate Professor in the Health Services Research Program at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore
  • Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke Medical School
  • Associate Professor at Duke Clinical Research Institute

Research Areas:

  • Medical decision making
  • Health preference assessment
  • Patient decision aids
  • Discrete choice experiment

Teaching Areas:

  • Market analysis

Academic/Professional Qualifications:

  • B.S. (2001), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
  • Ph.D. (2013), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
 

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