David O. Meltzer MD, PhD, is
Chief of the Section of
Hospital Medicine, Director of the Center
for Health and the Social Sciences, and
Chair of the Committee on Clinical and
Translational Science at The University
of Chicago, where he is Associate Professor
in the Department of Medicine, Department
of Economics and the Harris School of Public
Policy Studies.
Meltzer's research explores
problems in health economics and public
policy with a focus on the theoretical
foundations of medical cost-effectiveness
analysis and the cost and quality of hospital
care. He is completing a randomized trial
comparing the use of doctors who specialize
in inpatient care ("hospitalists")
with traditional physicians in six academic
medical centers and is Director of the
AHRQ-funded Hospital Medicine and Economics
Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics
(CERT) at the University of Chicago. Meltzer received his MD and PhD in economics from the University
of Chicago and completed his residency
in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's
Hospital in Boston. He is the recipient
of numerous awards, including the Lee Lusted
Prize of the Society for Medical Decision
Making, the Health Care Research Award
of the National Institute for Health Care
Management, and the Eugene Garfield Award
from Research America.
Meltzer is a research
associate of the National Bureau of Economic
Research, elected member of the American
Society for Clinical Investigation, and
past president of the Society for Medical
Decision Making. He has served on panels
examining the future of Medicare for
the National Academy of Social Insurance
and the Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS) and U.S. organ allocation policy
for the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
He is currently serving on an IOM panel
on the Learning Health Care System, the DHHS
Secretary's Advisory Committee on Healthy
People 2020, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research
Institute Methodology Committee, as a
Council Member of the National Institute
for General Medical Studies, and as a health economics
advisor for the Congressional Budget
Office. |
