Jack Fowler is a senior scientific advisor to the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation. The Foundation is a not for profit organization that develops information for patients facing medical decisions. It also supports research to learn how medical decisions are made, how best to support patients facing decisions and how to integrate decision support into routine clinical care. He served as president of the Foundation from 2002-2009. He has also been a senior research fellow at the Center for Survey Research, UMass Boston since 1971, and he served as director of the Center for 14 years. Dr. Fowler is a social scientist whose special expertise is survey methodology. He is the author (or co-author) of four widely used books on survey research methods. He also has been a major contributor to research on patient outcomes, how patients are affected by the treatments they receive, and how to measure the quality of medical decision making. He holds a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan.