Dr. Kao-Ping Chua is a primary care pediatrician and health services researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School. He is the Marilyn Fisher Blanch Research Professor of Child Health Policy and the Director of the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center. After completing the Boston Combined Residency in Pediatrics, he obtained a Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard University, with a focus on the empirical methods used in policy evaluation.

Dr. Chua’s research focuses on slowing the U.S. opioid epidemic, improving the affordability of health care, reducing the use of low-value care, and identifying emerging trends in health care utilization among children and young adults. He has conducted seminal studies on the prevalence and safety of opioid prescribing to children and young adults, as well as some of the first national studies on the epidemiology and harms of opioid prescribing by U.S. dentists. Additionally, he has made key contributions to the measurement of low-value care in administrative databases, including the development of claims-based measures of low-value pediatric care and antibiotic overuse.

Dr. Chua has published over 100 articles, including over 80 as first or senior author. His studies have been published in high-impact journals such as NEJM, JAMA, BMJ, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, and Pediatrics, and regularly receive coverage from national media outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, and NPR. He has received the Academic Pediatric Association Young Investigator Award and the AcademyHealth Nemours Child Health Services Research Award.