Matthew A. Davis
Assistant Professor
Systems, Populations and Leadership
University of Michigan
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Davis is a health services researcher who has additional training in data science. His research focuses on leveraging large sources of data to study important policy-relevant issues. Dr. Davis has made several important contributions to a variety of areas including the identification of dietary sources of arsenic exposure in the US population, studying national use of health services over time for nonspecific back pain, and the development of methods to use social media data to measure social support and public opinion. A specific interest of Dr. Davis is the application of data mining methods to healthcare claims data. Funded by the NIH, his current work is investigating health service substitution for nonspecific back pain by conducting a natural experiment of Medicare patients. He received his Masters in Public Health from Dartmouth Medical School and his PhD in quantitative biomedical sciences from Dartmouth College.
Research Interest
Population health Data science Health services research Healthcare spending and utilization
Publications
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Sites BD, Barrington MJ, Davis MA. Utilizing an international clinical registry of regional anesthesia to identify targets for quality improvement. Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine 2014;39:487-495. (PMID 25275578)
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Davis MA, Karagas MR, Moore JH, Williams SM, Frost HR. A Dietary-wide association study (DWAS) of environmental metal exposures in US children and adults. PLoS ONE 2014;9:e104768. (PMID 25198543)
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Davis MA, Antony DL, Pauls SD. Seeking and receiving social support on Facebook for surgery. Social Science & Medicine. 2015;131:40-47. (PMID 25753284)
