Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP is Professor of Medicine, Health Policy and Management and Industrial Engineering and Chief of the Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling in the Division of General Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained a degree in Economics from Harvard College, Medicine from Tufts University, and a Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School. He is the director of degree granting programs within the Institute for Clinical Research Education, which houses all of the CTSA-clinical research training activities. He has conducted research in decision analysis and the mathematical modeling of disease for over 20 years, and has expertise in cost effectiveness analysis, mathematical optimization and simulation, and the measurement and inclusion of patient preferences into decision problem. He has used decision analysis to examine clinical, costs, policy and allocation questions in liver transplantation, vaccination strategies, operative interventions, and the use of many medications. He has been funded on several modeling grants from the NIH (2 R01’s and 2 R21’s as PI, multiple as co-pi or co-investigator) and the NSF. He has published over 100 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, and served as an associate editor of the journal Medical Decision Making. His recent research has concentrated in the use of mathematical methods from operations research and management science, including Markov Decision Processes, Discrete Even Simulation and integer programming to problems in health care. He is the current president of the Society for Medical Decision Making.
Dr. Roberts’ research interests include:
- cost-benefit analysis
- decision analysis
- mathematical simulation
- decision support techniques
- health services research
- hospital information systems
- liver transplantation
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. Mark S. Roberts
Phone: (412) 692-4829
Email: robertsm@upmc.edu