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Steven Woloshin, MD

Title(s)
Professor of The Dartmouth Institute
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Community and Family Medicine

Department(s)
The Dartmouth Institute
Medicine
Community and Family Medicine

Education
Dartmouth Medical School, MS 1996
Boston University School of Medicine, MD 1987
Boston University, BA 1987

Programs
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Contact Information

Dartmouth Medical School
HB 7900
Hanover NH 03755

Phone: 603 646 5672
Email: steven.woloshin@dartmouth.edu


Professional Interests

Dr. Woloshin's research interest is in learning how to enhance the quality of medical communication to the public, patients, physicians and policymakers. His work (in collaboration with Dr. Lisa Schwartz) has 2 main approaches: improving the quality of messages presenting health information to people, and preparing audiences to make sense of the messages they receive. His main focus is on the communication of medical statistics and information about the benefits and harms of screening and prescription drugs.


Selected Publications

 

Responding to public health challenges of medical advice from social media influencers.
Heiss R, Woloshin S, Dave S, Engel E, Gell S, Willis E
BMJ. 2025 Dec 3;391:e086061. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-086061. Epub 2025 Dec 3.
PMID: 41338610

Patient and Physician Perspectives on Using Risk Prediction to Support Breast Cancer Surveillance Decision Making.
Gunn CM, Boyer N, Sheikh S, Lee JM, Woloshin S, Specht JM, Hubbard RA, Bowles EJA, Su YR, Tosteson ANA
Med Decis Making. 2026 Jan;46(1):35-46. doi: 10.1177/0272989X251379888. Epub 2025 Oct 21.
PMID: 41117001

Less is more for patients, practitioners, public and planet: a taxonomy for the harms of too much medicine.
Gram EG, Haas R, Niklasson A, Woloshin S, Kramer B, Brodersen J, Jorgensen KJ, Johansson M, Wilt T, Bell K, Preventing Overdiagnosis Research Day group
BMJ Evid Based Med. 2025 Oct 5; pii: bmjebm-2025-113874. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2025-113874. Epub 2025 Oct 5.
PMID: 41047163

Reporting of Clinical Trial Uncertainties With New Cancer Drugs in Journal Publications and Clinical Guidelines.
Cherla A, Wagner AK, Wouters OJ, Woloshin S, Davis C, Mossialos E, Naci H
JAMA. 2025 Oct 28;334(16):1480-1482. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.13917.
PMID: 40900610

Trends in use of the new MeSH term "overdiagnosis": A bibliometric review.
Gram EG, Kramer BS, Jorgensen KJ, Woloshin S
Health Info Libr J. 2025 Aug 9; doi: 10.1111/hir.70000. Epub 2025 Aug 9.
PMID: 40781870

New Cancer Drug Approvals: Less Than Half Of Important Clinical Trial Uncertainties Reported By The FDA To Clinicians, 2019-22.
Cherla A, Woloshin S, Wagner AK, Wouters OJ, Davis C, Mossialos E, Naci H
Health Aff (Millwood). 2025 Jul;44(7):830-838. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2024.01134.
PMID: 40623257

What evidence is required to justify the NHS Health Check programme?
Jorgensen KJ, Johansson M, Woloshin S
BMC Med. 2025 Apr 24;23(1):242. doi: 10.1186/s12916-025-04081-3. Epub 2025 Apr 24.
PMID: 40275326

Alternative Presentations of Overall and Statistical Uncertainty for Adults' Understanding of the Results of a Randomized Trial of a Public Health Intervention: Parallel Web-Based Randomized Trials.
Holst C, Woloshin S, Oxman AD, Rose C, Rosenbaum S, Munthe-Kaas HM
JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2025 Mar 18;11:e62828. doi: 10.2196/62828. Epub 2025 Mar 18.
PMID: 40101228

Corrigendum to "Tobacco Product Use and Functionally Important Respiratory Symptoms Among US Adolescents/Young Adults" [Acad Pediatr. 2022; 22(6):1006-1016].
Tanski S, Halenar MJ, Edwards KC, Emond J, Woloshin S, Brunette M, Schwartz L, Taylor KA, Goniewicz ML, Niaura R, Anic G, Chen Y, Callahan-Lyon P, Gardner LD, Thekkudan T, Borek N, Kimmel HL, Michael Cummings K, Hyland A, Sargent J
Acad Pediatr. 2025 Apr;25(3):102561. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2024.08.006. Epub 2025 Feb 7.
PMID: 39922078

Physician-Patient Communication about Novel Drugs and High-Risk Medical Devices.
Dhruva SS, Kesselheim AS, Woloshin S, Ji RZ, Lu Z, Darrow JJ, Redberg RF
Med Decis Making. 2025 Feb;45(2):156-167. doi: 10.1177/0272989X241302096. Epub 2024 Dec 21.
PMID: 39707817

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