Mark and Stephanie Robinson Chancellor's Chair | Professor | Faculty Director, Robinson Life Science, Business, and Entrepreneurship Program
Economic Analysis & Policy

About

Professor David Chan, MD, PhD, is the Mark and Stephanie Robinson Chancellor’s Chair and faculty director for Robinson Life Science, Business, and Entrepreneurship Program.

Professor Chan is also an investigator at the Department of Veterans Affairs, co-director of the VA Center for Policy Evaluation, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Drawing on labor and organizational economics, he is interested in studying how information and the workforce impact decision-making and outcomes in health care. Professor Chan has received several awards for his research, including the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, the 2023 American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) Medal (awarded to an early-career economist who has made the most significant contributions to health economics), and the 2024 National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM) Research Award. His research has been cited by US Office of Management and Budget, the US Congressional Budget Office, and members of Congress.

Before coming to Berkeley, Professor Chan was an associate professor of Health Policy at Stanford University. He 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. He is currently a hospitalist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto.

Expertise and Research Interests

  • Health Economics
  • Labor Economics
  • Organizational Economics