DAVID MELTZER

Section of General Internal Medicine
University of Chicago
5841 S. Maryland Ave MC 6098
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-0836
Fax: (773) 702-3538
E-mail: dmeltzer@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

EDUCATION

M.D. University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, 1993.

Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, 1994.

Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1996.

Ph.D. University of Chicago, Department of Economics, 1992.

Dissertation: "Mortality Decline, the Demographic Transition, and Economic Growth"
Preliminary Examinations in Industrial Organization and Labor Economics
Specialization in Health Economics and Economic Demography

B.S. Yale College, 1986.
Majors: Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Economics

HONORS & AWARDS

Lee Lusted Prize, Society for Medical Decision Making, 1996.

University of Chicago:
Doctor of Medicine with Honors
NIH Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship
NSF Graduate Fellowship in Economics
University of Chicago Searle Fellowship
Alpha Omega Alpha

Yale College:
summa cum laude
Distinction in Economics
Distinction in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Dickerman Prize for the Best Senior Essay in Economics: "Economic Determinants of Child Timing and Spacing Decisions: The Role of Liquidity Constraints"
Phi Beta Kappa

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1996-present Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Department of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.
Faculty member of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Graduate Health Administration Program, Committee on Demographic Training, Population Research Center and Center on Aging.
1994- present Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
National Institute of Aging / National Bureau of Economic Research Faculty Fellowship in the Economics of Health Care and Aging, 1995.
1993- 1996 Resident in Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Primary Care track within traditional program in Internal Medicine.
1991-1993 Lecturer, Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.
Taught a graduate course entitled "Health Economics and Public Policy".
Faculty member of the Graduate Health Administration Program, the Committee on Demographic Training, and the Population Research Center.
1988 - 1991 Economics Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
Assisted Professor Gary Becker with a variety of research projects.
1988 Economics Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
Taught regular sessions and graded for a graduate course in general equilibrium theory taught by Professor Robert Townsend.
1988 Economics Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.
Graded for a course in the economics and regulation of the health care industry taught by Professor David Dranove.
1985 - 1986 Economics Tutor, Yale College.
Tutored introductory and intermediate microeconomics for the Yale College Dean's Office.
1985 - 1986 Economics Research Assistant, Economic Growth Center, Yale University.
Assisted Professor T. Paul Schultz in an econometric analysis of changes in women's labor supply decisions since 1960.
1985 Genetics Research Assistant, Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale.
Designed and carried out an experiment to determine the direction of insertion of a transposon within the genome of Drosophila.
1984 Economics Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
Assisted in an EPA-sponsored study of the valuation of improvements in environmental quality.
Participated in survey design and field testing.
1983 Scientific Research Assistant, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago.
Aided in the analysis of a large computerized psychiatric data base.
1982 Laboratory Assistant, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute.
Helped in research studying evoked potentials in psychiatric patients.
Prepared patients for tests and accompanied them during tests. Assisted in data analysis.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

"Mortality Decline, The Demographic Transition and Economic Growth": Economic Growth Center, Yale University, September 1989.
Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise Systems, SUNY Buffalo, November 1989.
Workshop on Demographic Applications, Population Research Center, U. of Chicago, Nov. 1990.
Workshop in the Applications of Economics, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Chicago, April 1991.
Department of Economics, University of Rochester, November 1992.
Discussant for a session on "The Economics of Health Care": Annual Meeting, Econometric Society, Washington, D.C., December 1990.
"Does the FDA Accelerate or Delay the Approval of Important Drugs?" with David Dranove: Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago, February 1991.
Economic and Legal Organization Workshop, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Chicago, May 1991.
Workshop on Industrial Organization, NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, July 1991.
Annual Meeting, American Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, January 1992.
Marion-Merrell Dow, Kansas City, MO, May 1992.
"Screening for Prostate Cancer: A Decision Analysis" with Gerald Chodak and Robin Hogarth: Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy PORT, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, March 1991.
Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago, May 1991.
Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, June 1991.
School of Medicine, University of Rochester, November 1992.
Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, May 1995.
Department of Medicine and School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Univesity, June 1995.
"Specialization and American Health Care Reform": Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Michigan, August, 1991.
"Accounting for Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis": School of Public Health, Harvard University, April 1994.
Society for Medical Decision Making, Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, October 1995.
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, October 1995.
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, February 1996.
National Meeting on M.D./Ph.D. Education and Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chicago, April 1996.
University of Chicago / University of Washington Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Health Economics Conference, Chicago, April 1996.
Society of General Internal Medicine, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, May 1996.
National Bureau of Economic Research, Summer Institute, Cambridge MA, July 1996.
Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, September 1996.
Society for Medical Decision Making, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 1996
American Enterprise Institute, Conference on "Policy Issues in Pharmaceutical Cost-Effectiveness Research", Washington DC, November 1996.
Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, December 1996.
Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies, Northwestern University, March 1997.
Discussant for "The Covariance Structure of Mortality Rates in Hospitals" by Douglas Staiger: NBER Conference on Economics of Aging and Health Care, Boulders, AZ, May 1995.
"Effect of House Officer Workload on Length of Stay on Traditional and Managed Care Medical Services," UCLA/Rand Workshop on Empirical Economics, March 1996.
Society of General Internal Medicine, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 1996.
American Economics Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 1997.
Society of General Internal Medicine, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 1997.
Department of Economics, University of Chicago, June 1997.
Discussant for "Health, Income and Inequality Over the Life-Cycle" by Angus Deaton and Chritina Paxson: NBER Conference on Economics of Aging and Health Care, Boulders, AZ, May 1997.
Discussant for "The Medical Cost of the Old and Young: A Forty Year Perspective" by David Cutler and Ellen Meara: NBER Conference on Economics of Aging and Health Care, Boulders, AZ, May 1997.
Panelist "Medicare as a Public Good: Using Health Services Research to Restructure Medicare" with Co- panel members from the National Academy of Social Insurance Study Panel on Medicare's Broader Social Role, Association for Health Services Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, June 1997.
"Economic and Behavioral Issues in Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Prostate Cancer Screening and Treatment", American Economics Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 1997.

PUBLICATIONS

Meltzer, David. Mortality Decline, the Demographic Transition, and Economic Growth. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, Department of Economics, December 1992.
Meltzer, David. "Are Generalists the Answer for Primary Care?" JAMA, PULSE 269 (13):1711,1714, April 7, 1993.
Dranove, David and David Meltzer. "Do Important Drugs Reach the Market Sooner?" with David Dranove RAND Journal of Economics 25 (3): 402-423, 1994.
Meltzer, David. Book Review: "Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and other Medical Technologies" by Frank Sloan. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995. Journal of Public Policy and Management, Summer 1996.
Meltzer, David. "Accounting for Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis". Journal of Health Economics. 16 (1): 33-64, 1997. Also published as". National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series # 5946, February, 1997.
Meltzer, David. Book Review: Primary Care: America's Health in a New Era by Donaldson MS, Yordy KD, Lohr KN, Vanselow NA; eds. National Academy Press, Washington D.C. 1996 in Annals of Internal Medicine 126 (12): 1008, June 15, 1997.
Meltzer, David. Commentary on "The Covariance Structure of Mortality Rates in Hospitals" by Douglas Staiger: NBER Conference on Economics of Aging and Health Care, Boulders, AZ, May, 1995. In press.
Johannesson, Magnus, David Meltzer and Richard O'Conor. "Incorporating Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Implications for the Cost-Effectiveness of the Treatment of Hypertension" Medical Decision Making. In press.
Meltzer, David. "Theoretical Issues in Accounting for Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis" in Policy Issues in Pharmaceutical Cost -Effectiveness Analysis. AEI Press. In Press.
Meltzer, David. "Mortality Decline, the Demographic Transition, and Economic Growth". Under revision, Journal of Political Economy.
Meltzer, David and Magnus Johannesson."Inconsistencies in the 'Societal Perspective' on Costs of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine". Medical Decision Making. Under review.
Chodak, Gerald, Ronald Thisted, Glenn Gerber, David Meltzer and the Prostate Cancer Meta-Analysis Group. "Comparison of Prostate Cancer Specific Survival in Men with Localized Prostate Cancer Treated by Watchful Waiting or Radical Prostatectomy based on Meta-analyses of Individual Patient Data". JAMA. Under review.
Meltzer, David, Gerald Chodak, Sema Barlas, and Robin Hogarth. "Assessing Benefits and Costs of Prostate Cancer Screening Using Decision Analysis". In preparation.
Meltzer, David, David Bates and Fred Hiltz. "Effect of House Officer Workload on Length of Stay on Traditional and Managed Care Medical Services". In preparation.
Meltzer, David. "Addressing Uncertainty in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis." In preparation.

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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

National Merit Scholarship, Yale University, 1982-1986.
Graduate Fellowship in Economics, National Science Foundation, 1986-1988.
Graduate Fellowship, Searle Foundation, University of Chicago, 1986-1993.
Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, University of Chicago 1988-1993.
Co-Investigator, "Screening for Prostate Cancer: A Decision Analysis" with Dr. Gerald Chodak (Principal Investigator) and Professor Robin Hogarth (Co-Investigator) funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Dept. of Health and Human Services, June 1992 - June 1993.
Research Faculty Fellowship in the Economics of Health Care and Aging, National Institute of Aging and National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995-1996.
Hartford Geriatrics Initiative Faculty Development Program, University of Chicago, 1996-1997.
Geriatric Academic Program Faculty Development Grant, National Institute of Aging, 1996-2001.