Matt T. Rosenberg, MD of Mid Michigan Health Centers in Jackson, MI discussed the importance of shared decision making for prostate cancer patients with Grand Rounds in Urology and Dr. E. David Crawford. Dr. Rosenberg focused on an example PSA screening and shared decision making for PSA including three tenants of shared decision making and deciding when to use shared decision making.
Keywords: PSA, shared decision making, prostate cancer
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matt T. Rosenberg, MD, earned his medical degree at the University of California, Irvine, where he trained in general surgery. He also trained in urologic surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston before changing fields to general practice. Dr Rosenberg has a special interest in the medical management of urologic diseases and has authored or coauthored articles appearing in Urology, The Journal of Urology, BJU International, The International Journal of Clinical Practice, and other peer-reviewed journals. He now practices in Jackson, Michigan, serving as Medical Director of Mid-Michigan Health Centers, and on staff at Allegiance Health, where he served as Chief of the Department of Family Medicine from 2003 to 2006. Dr. Rosenberg is a Senior Editor at the International Journal of Clinical Practice and is Founder and Chairman of the Urologic Health Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to the education of primary care physicians in the field of genitourinary disease. In 2011, he was appointed by the AUA Office of Education to be the Coordinator of Primary Care Education.
