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David Chan

David Chan, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine
Investigator at the Department of Veterans Affairs
Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Core faculty member at the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research

Encina Hall, Room E311
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6019

david.c.chan@stanford.edu
(650) 725-9582 (voice)
(650) 723-1919 (fax)
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Research Interests

productivity in health care; physician and health care worker behavior; interventions to improve efficiency in health care delivery

Bio


David Chan, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine, an investigator at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Drawing on labor and organizational economics, he is interested in studying how information is used in health care, how this affects productivity, and implications for design. He is the recipient of the 2014 NIH Director’s High-Risk, High-Reward Early Independence Award to study the optimal balance of information in health information technology for patient care.

Other Affiliations

Department of Veterans Affairs, Center for Health Care Evaluation Partners Health Care

Publications

Learning on the Job: Evidence from Physicians in Training
Industry Input in Policymaking: Evidence from Medicare
The Efficiency of Slacking Off: Evidence from the Emergency Department
Teamwork and Moral Hazard: Evidence from the Emergency Department

Topics

Health and Medicine
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Health Care
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Health policy