Jason Doctor, University of Southern California

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Health Policy and Management Department Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics Professor USC Price School of Public Policy Los Angeles, California jdoctor@pharmacy.usc.edu Office: (323) 442-3435

Bio/Research

- Dr. Jason Doctor’s research program centers on decision-making in healthcare and health informatics. Dr. 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 det...


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Bio/Research

- Dr. Jason Doctor’s research program centers on decision-making in healthcare and health informatics. Dr. 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.
- Doctor has direct experience with applications of behavioral economics to nudge physicians to achieve better guideline compliance through electronic health records customization.
- He is an expert in physician behavior and psychology, behavioral economics and health, patient choice and decision making, health policy and implementation, treatment preferences, prescriptions, and health informatics.
- Jason Doctor is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Southern California’s Price School of Public Policy. He is also the Director of Health Informatics at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.
- He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, San Diego.


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