Since 2016, the Chronic Diseases and Medical Decision-Making Workshop has been bringing together an international group of health economists, decision scientists, psychologists, clinicians, and others with shared interests in decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and the psychology of decision-making to present their work in progress.
Co-organized by the Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy at the University of Chicago and the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics Research at the University of Illinois Chicago, the workshop meets monthly, typically on the last Wednesday of the month at 12PM CT.
2025-26
September 17, 2025: Melissa Franco-Galicia, PhD Candidate, Department of Health Policy, Stanford University, Cancer mathematical models for decision-making considering healthcare system and access constraints
October 22, 2025: Oliver Dolin, MsC, Data Scientist, Dark Peak Analytics, and Robert Smith, PhD, Director of Health Economics, Dark Peak Analytics, Development of an interactive web platform to optimize access to and uptake of healthcare-professional administered treatments – stream on YouTube
November 19, 2025: Danwei Yang (U of Chicago)
December 17, 2025: Piaopiao Li (U of Florida)
January 21, 2026: Amanda Leiter (UCLA)
February 18, 2026: Bryan Tysinger (USC)
March 18, 2026 Maja Kuhari (Northwestern)
April 22, 2026 Simon Pickard (UIC)