David O. Meltzer
David Owen Meltzer born 1964 is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. He holds faculty appointments in the Department of Medicine, Department of Economics as well as the Harris School of Public Policy Studies. He is Chief of the section of Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine, as well as is the Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences CHeSS, as well as the Director of the Urban Health Lab in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he was appointed a unit of the faculty for the forthcoming Barack Obama Presidential Center which will be located in Chicago's South Side.
Meltzer was elected to the Institute of Medicine IOM in 2015 and has served on several committees, including the Committee for Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy. He is also a member of the Methodology Committee for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute PCORI. Finally, he serves on the 2nd U.S. Panel on Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine.