David D. Kim

David D. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Medicine-Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago. His interdisciplinary research integrates health economics, policy evaluation, and decision modeling to advance value-based healthcare decisions. Major contributions include innovative frameworks like the Decision Framework for Assessing Transferability of Economic Evaluation, the CHEQUE tool, and the DOC-M model.

• Education: PhD in Health Economics (University of Washington, 2016), MS in Biostatistics (University of Michigan, 2012), BSE in Biomedical Engineering (University of Michigan, 2009)

Research interests span Health Economics, Health Policy, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, and Simulation Modeling, with a focus on value-based care, low-value care reduction, and economic impacts of health policies. Articles trend toward public health policy, nutrition insecurity interventions, obesity management, and healthcare disparities.

Current grants include NIH funding for modeling health equity impacts of food insecurity strategies, an American Heart Association grant for quantitative bias analysis in obesity initiatives, and Arnold Ventures support for understanding racial inequality in low-value care.

• Labs/Teams: Kim Research Group at University of Chicago