David O. Meltzer

David O. Meltzer
Meltzer lecturing in Chicago, May 2015
Born
David Owen Meltzer
Academic career
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
FieldHealth economics
Hospital medicine
Alma materYale University
University of Chicago
InfluencesGary Becker
Sherwin Rosen

David Owen Meltzer (born 1964) is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. He holds faculty appointments in the Department of Medicine, Department of Economics and the Harris School of Public Policy. He is Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine, and is the Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS), as well as the Director of the Urban Health Lab in Chicago, IL.[1] In 2015 he was appointed a member of the faculty for the forthcoming Barack Obama Presidential Center which will be located in Chicago's South Side.

Meltzer was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2015 and has served on several committees,[2] including the Committee for Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy.[3] He is also a member of the Methodology Committee for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).[4] Finally, he serves on the 2nd U.S. Panel on Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine.[5]

  1. ^ "$10 million Pritzker gift helps U. of C. expand evidence-based labs projects". Chicago. 8 March 2015.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "NAM Elects 80 New Members". 19 October 2015.
  3. ^ Gibbons RD, Meltzer D, Duan N. Waiting for organ transplantation. Institute of Medicine Committee on Organ Transplantation. Science. 2000 Jan 14;287(5451):237–238.
  4. ^ "David O. Meltzer, MD, PhD". pcori.org. 21 July 2014.
  5. ^ "2nd Cost-Effectiveness Panel Web Site". ucsd.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-05-04. Retrieved 2015-08-24.

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