Faculty
Jason Doctor
Professor
Norman Topping National Medical Enterprise Chair in Medicine
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs
Co-Director, Behavioral Sciences Program, USC Schaeffer Center
Education
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Expertise
Physician behavior and psychology
Behavioral economics and health
Patient choice and decision making
Health policy and implementation
Treatment preferences
Prescriptions
Health informatics
Biography
Jason Doctor is a Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs. He is also the Director of Health Informatics at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.
His research program centers on decision-making in healthcare and health informatics. Dr. Doctor specializes in behavioral economics and the use of choice architecture to affect policy in health and medicine. In other research, he has studied computational approaches to detecting medical errors and has established methods for representing preferences and values for health.
Selected Publications
- Nuckols, T. K., Chen, P. G., Shetty, K. D., Brara, H. S., Anand, N., Qureshi, N., Skaggs, D. L., Doctor, J. N., Pevnick, J. M., & Mannion, A. F. (2024). Surgical appropriateness nudges: Developing behavioral science nudges to integrate appropriateness criteria into the decision making of Spine Surgeons. PLOS ONE, 19(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300475.
- Doctor, J. N., & Lakdawalla, D. N. (2024). How to advance the debate over Qalys: A response to Kaplan et al. Forefront Group. https://doi.org/10.1377/forefront.20240607.883603.
- Persell, S. D., Petito, L. C., Lee, J. Y., Meeker, D., Doctor, J. N., Goldstein, N. J., Fox, C. R., Rowe, T. A., Linder, J. A., Chmiel, R., & Peprah, Y. A. (2024). Reducing care overuse in older patients using professional norms and accountability: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Annals of Internal Medicine, 177(3), 324-334.