Glyn Elwyn is a clinician, and researcher at The Dartmouth Institute leading an international interdisciplinary team studying shared decision making into clinical settings, which include collaboRATE, a patient experience measure of shared decision making, and Observer OPTION-5, for use on recorded data.
Glyn was previously Professor of Primary Care at the Swansea Medical School (2002–2005) before being appointed Research Professor at Cardiff University where in collaboration with Professor Adrian Edwards, he led the Decision Laboratory. In a lifetime committed to shared decision making and evidence based medicine, he also developed Option Grids™ patient decision aids, licensed to EBSCO in 2017.
He holds chair appointments at the Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands; UniSante University in Lausanne, Switzerland; Cochrane Institute for Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University; and at University College London.
