A CIRANO Associate Researcher since 2014, David Chimin Chan is Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also Investigator at the Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Holding a Medical Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is interested in studying how information is used in health care, how this affects productivity, and implications for design.