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David Chan

Assistant Professor
Medicine
Stanford University
United States of America

Biography

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. Dr. Chan received master’s degrees in policy and economics from the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall scholar. He holds a medical degree from UCLA and a PhD in economics from MIT. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and was an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, prior to coming to Palo Alto, where he currently is a hospitalist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto.

Research Interest

Primary Care Outcomes Research

Publications

  • Chan DC (2014) Teamwork and Moral Hazard: Evidence from the Emergency Department Journal of Political Economy - Forthcoming

  • Chan DC (2014) Learning, Influence, and Convergence: Evidence from Physicians in Training Working Paper

  • Chan DC (2016) Teamwork and Moral Hazard: Evidence from the Emergency Department JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 124: 734-770

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