Data Analytics and Modeling for Better Decisions in Government Healthcare

Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP- Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health- Professor of Medicine, Industrial Engineering and Clinical and Translational Science

Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and is professor of Medicine, Industrial Engineering and Clinical and Translational Science. He obtained his BA in Economics from Harvard College, an MD from Tufts University, and a Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School. He completed his clinical training at the Harvard Medical School, where he was a resident and fellow in general medicine.

With expertise in cost effectiveness analysis, decision analysis, clinical information systems, mathematical optimization, simulation and health policy, Dr. Roberts conducted research in application of these methods to health care decisions and the delivery of care for the past 25 years. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers, and been funded on over 40 federally funded grants. He has examined clinical, cost, policy and allocation questions in liver transplantation, the treatment of HIV disease, vaccination strategies, operative interventions, and the use of many medications.

Dr. Roberts has held leadership roles of several societies, served on multiple NIH review panels, was an associate editor of Medical Decision Making, and was that societies’ president in 2009. He recently was the Chair of the “Conceptual Modeling Working Group” of the joint International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research /Society for Medical Decision Making Best Modeling Practices task force, which recently published a 6-paper series of recommendations on modeling methodology. He has taught decision analysis, simulation and cost effectiveness for many organizations and in over 10 countries.