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Jason Doctor, PhD

Senior Scholar, USC Schaeffer Institute
Norman Topping National Medical Enterprise Chair in Medicine and Professor, USC Price School of Public Policy
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, USC Price School of Public Policy

Biography

Jason Doctor is a senior scholar at the USC Schaeffer Institute. He is the Norman Topping National Medical Enterprise Chair in Medicine at the USC Price School of Public Policy, where he is also Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs.

His research centers on decision-making in healthcare and health informatics. Doctor specializes in behavioral economics and the use of choice architecture to affect policy in health and medicine. In other research, he has studied computational approaches to detecting medical errors and has established methods for representing preferences and values for health.