Talya Miron-Shatz
Israeli researcher
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Talya Miron-Shatz (Hebrew: טליה מירון-שץ) is an Israeli researcher who specializes in medical decision-making.[1] She is a full professor at the Ono Academic College, a senior fellow at the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, New York,[2] and a visiting researcher at the Wonton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, Cambridge University.[3] Miron-Shatz is a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory.[4] She has worked as a consultant in the healthcare industry to companies from health advertising, digital health, wellness, and the pharmaceutical industry.
Talya Miron-Shatz | |
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| טליה מירון-שץ | |
Miron-Shatz in 2020 | |
| Occupation | Professor at Ono Academic College |
| Organization | Ono Academic College |
| Website | talyamironshatz |
Education and career
Miron-Shatz was awarded her PhD in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005 and conducted her post-doctoral studies at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University in the United States, under the supervision of Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, until 2009.[5]
From 2008 to 2011, she was an adjunct lecturer and taught consumer behavior to students at the marketing department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.[6] She is a full professor at the Faculty of Business Administration at the Ono Academic College, where she is the founding director of the Center for Medical Decision Making.[7] She is also a visiting researcher at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge, England, as well as at its Social Decision-Making Laboratory.[3][8]
Research
The focus of Miron-Shatz's work is how people perceive medical information and medical situations, and the implications for their health.[6] Based on her study of patient knowledge of their own cardiac catherization, Miron-Shatz believes that inclusion in the process is important because "this translates into better adherence to medications and lifestyle changes."[9]
In a New York Times article on COVID vaccine hesitancy, she stated, "Covid has turned us all into amateur scientists... We are all looking at data, but most people are not scientists."[10]
Miron-Shatz has also studied happiness and its determinants, including financial security.[11] Adding to the approach that placed considerable weight on daily activities as determinants of happiness, she has shown that individuals' thoughts and what they are preoccupied with also play a major role in their happiness. She has revealed that subjectively defined peak, and mainly low moments during the day, add to the prediction of happiness.[12] In a study of life satisfaction at milestone ages, based on surveys measuring well-being collected from 800 women in Columbus, Ohio, Miron-Shatz found that women at milestone ages (e.g., 30, 50) were twice as likely to assess their overall happiness in terms of self-reported health.[13]
Her research has been supported by a Marie Curie grant from the European Research Council, grants from the National Institute for Health Policy Research (Israel), The American Association of University Women, FCB, Pfizer Israel, and Pfizer Europe.[14]
Writing
In 1990, Miron-Shatz published the book My Body Is My Own: A Guide for Dealing with Child Sexual Assault.[15]
Since 2008, she writes the blog "Baffled by Numbers", about navigating information to reach better health decisions, published in Psychology Today.[16]
She also publishes in other venues, such as the American Marketing Association.[17]
In September 2021, Miron-Shatz published her latest book, Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health.[18]
Consulting
Miron-Shatz consults in the sphere of medical decision-making and behavior change in health, involving both prescriber and patient behavior.[19]
She was the co-organizer of the eHealth Venture Summit at MEDICA[20] and ran the Pharma 2.0 series in NYC's Health 2.0 meetup group.[21]
She routinely gives talks at medical industry conferences and for business forum events such as Habit Labs, NY; Digital Health Summit, Philadelphia; Financial Times Digital Health Summit Europe; and Financial Times Digital Health Summit, New York.[22]
Selected publications
Books
- My Body Is My Own: A Guide for Dealing with Child Sexual Assault (1990)
- Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health (2021)
Articles
- Miron-Shatz, T., Stone, A. A., & Kahneman, D. (2009). :Memories of yesterday's emotions: Does the valence of experience affect the memory-experience gap?" Emotion 9(6), 885-891
- Elwyn, G., & Miron‐Shatz, T. (2010). "Deliberation before determination: the definition and evaluation of good decision making". Health Expectations, 13(2), 139–147.
- Miron-Shatz, T., Diener, E., Moore, T., & Saphire-Bernstein, S. (2013). "Charting the internal landscape: Affect associated with thoughts about major life domains explains life satisfaction". Judgment and Decision Making, 8(5): 603–616.
- Becker, S., Miron-Shatz, T., Schumacher, N., Krocza, J., Diamantidis, C., & Albrecht, U. V. (2014). "mHealth 2.0: experiences, possibilities, and perspectives". Journal of Medical Internet Research, mHealth and uHealth, 2(2), e24.
- Mertens, A., Brandl, C., Miron-Shatz, T., Schlick, C., Neumann, T., Kribben, A., ... & Becker, S. (2016). "A mobile application improves therapy-adherence rates in elderly patients undergoing rehabilitation: A crossover design study comparing documentation via iPad with paper-based control". Medicine, 95(36).
- Barnes, A. J., Hanoch, Y., Miron-Shatz, T., & Ozanne, E. M. (2016). "Tailoring risk communication to improve comprehension: Do patient preferences help or hurt?" Health Psychology, 35(9), 1007.
- Konheim-Kalkstein, Y.L. Miron-Shatz, T. & Israel. L.J. (2018). "How Women Evaluate Birth Challenges: An Analysis of Online Birth Stories". JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting 1(2):e12206 DOI: 10.2196/12206
- Konheim-Kalkstein, Y., & Miron-Shatz, T. (2019). "'If only I had ...': Regrets from women with an unplanned caesarean delivery". Journal of Health Psychology, 1–12.
- Logan Schwarzman, Talya Miron-Shatz, Katherine Maki, Leon Hsueh, Eden Liu, Danit Tarashandegan, Felipe Mendez and Mladen I. Vidovich. (2019). "Shared Decision Making in Radial versus Femoral Catheterization". The American Journal of Cardiology, 124(2).
- Konheim-Kalkstein, Y., & Miron-Shatz, T. (2019). "Preparedness and support, not personality, predict satisfaction in unplanned cesarean births". Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1–5.
- Huilgol Y.S., Miron-Shatz, T., Joshi, A.U., & Hollander, J.E. (2019). "Hospital Telehealth Adoption Increased in 2014 and 2015 and Was Influenced by Population, Hospital, and Policy Characteristics". Telemedicine and e-Health
- Miron-Shatz, T., Ormianer, M., Rabinowitz, J., Hanoch, Y., & Tsafrir, A. (2020). "Physician experience is associated with greater underestimation of patient pain". Patient education and counseling, 103(2), 405–409.
- Miron-Shatz, T., Holzer, H., Revel, A., Weissman, A., Tarashandagan, D., Hurwitz, A., Gal, M., Ben-Chetrit, A., Weintraub, A., Ravhon, A., and Tsafrir, A. (2021). "Luckily, I don't believe in statistics: Survey of women's understanding of chance of success with futile fertility treatments". (2020). Reproductive Biomedicine Online 42(2).