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
At Haas since 2025
- 2025 – present, Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- 2025 – present, Mark and Stephanie Robinson Chancellor’s Chair, University of California, Berkeley
- 2025 – present, Faculty Co-Director, Robinson Life Science, Business, and Entrepreneurship (LSBE) Program, University of California, Berkeley
- 2023 – present, Member, CESifo Research Network
- 2023 – present, Editorial Board Member, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- 2022 – present, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
- 2022 – present, Co-Director, VA QUERI Center for Policy Evaluation
- 2013 – present, Investigator, Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System
Past Academic Positions:
- 2021 – 2024, Associate Professor of Health Policy (with Tenure), Stanford University
- 2022 – 2024, Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
- 2024 – 2024, Assistant Director: EHR-Based Bright Spots Research, Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), Stanford School of Medicine
- 2014 – 2022, Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
- 2016 – 2022, Faculty Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
- 2021 – 2021, Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University
- 2019 – 2021, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University (Reappointment)
- 2013 – 2019, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University (Initial Appointment)
- 2017 – 2019, Assistant Professor of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University (by courtesy)
- 2023 – present, Member, CESifo Research Network
- 2023 – present, Editorial Board Member, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- 2022 – present, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
- 2022 – present, Co-Director, VA QUERI Center for Policy Evaluation
- 2013 – present, Investigator, Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System
- 2024, VA Health Systems Research (HSR) Best Paper Award
- 2024, National Institutes of Health Care Management (NIHCM) Research Award
- 2023, American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) Medal, to early-career economist with the most significant contributions to health economics
- 2021, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Excellence in Refereeing Award
- 2019, Stanford Department of Medicine Teaching Award
- 2014, NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
- 2011, George and Obie Schultz Fund Award, MIT Department of Economics
- 2007, Martin P. Solomon Education Grant, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- 2006, Neil R. Powe Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- 2005, William N. Valentine Award for highest scholarly distinction in Internal Medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
- 2002-2003, George Webb Medley Grant, Oxford University, England
- 2002, Brian Abel-Smith for best dissertation, London School of Economics
- 2001-2003, British Marshall Scholarship, Association of Commonwealth Universities
- 2001, Rhodes Scholarship National Finalist, The Rhodes Trust
- 1998, Phi Beta Kappa (early election in Junior year), Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
- 1997-1999, Chancellor’s List, University of California at Riverside
- 1997, Omicron Delta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society
- 1997, Golden Key, Golden Key Honor Society
- 1995-1999, Dean’s List, University of California at Riverside
- 1995-1999, National Merit Scholarship, National Merit Scholarship Corporation
- 1995-1999, Regents Scholarship, University of California at Riverside
- 1999, Mark P. Hanna Award for best graduating mathematics major, University of California at Riverside
- Strategy, LSBE Capstone Course