Matt Maciejewski, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences. He is also a Research Career Scientist and Director of the Health Economics and Policy Unit in the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VA Medical Center. Matt also holds Adjunct Professor appointments in the Schools of Public Health and Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lastly, he is a Statistical Associate Editor at JAMA.
He has research interests in four areas:
1) evaluation of surgical and behavioral interventions for the management of obesity and cardiometabolic conditions
2) evaluation of cost-sharing changes on demand for medications and health services
3) analysis of health care utilization and expenditures in experimental and quasi-experimental studies
4) methods for addressing unobserved confounding in observational studies.
Matt has received funding from NIDA, CMS, AHRQ, VA HSR&D, and the RWJ Foundation. He has published over 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Surgery, Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Economics, Medical Care, Health Services Research, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Diabetes Care.
Areas of expertise: Health Services Research, Health Economics, Health Policy, Multimorbidity
Education and Training
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1998
Grants
- Addressing Bias from Missing Data in EHR Based Studies of CVD
- Dissemination and Implementation Science in Cardiovascular Outcomes (DISCO)
- Long-term Mental Health Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery
- Mobile contingency management for smoking cessation in returning US Veterans
- Optimal Medication Management in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
- Cascading Impacts of Bundled Payment on Peritoneal Dialysis Provision & Outcomes