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Mark Roberts appointed to the rank of distinguished professor

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I am delighted to announce that Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP has been appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Roberts is Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory (PHDL). In addition to his academic appointments, Dr. Roberts has held many administrative appointments, such as Director of the Institute of Clinical Research Education (ICRE) from 2007 to 2010, Senior Medical Director of UPMC Health Plan from 2013 to 2014, and Co-Director of the Center for Research on Health Care since 2010.

Dr. Roberts is a respected international expert in operations research and mathematical simulation of disease modeling. His research efforts focus on constructing clinically detailed simulation models of diseases that allow for policies to interact with the biology of diseases. Dr. Roberts has been highly productive throughout his career. He has published more than 200 manuscripts, many of which appeared in top-tier journals. His expertise has been noted through peer-­review activities and by requests to write editorials related to models, methodology, and policy. Dr. Roberts has an excellent record of funding from NIH and other foundations as both Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator. Dr. Roberts delivered keynote lectures at several national and international meetings, and in 2014, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Decision Making for his contributions to decision-making science.

Dr. Roberts was one of the first researchers in the University and in his field to fully embrace and actively work to form interdisciplinary research teams. He brought the fields of engineering and quantitative modeling to clinician-researchers, educating them on how to apply tools from industrial engineering to solving some of the most vexing clinical decisions. He has assembled multidisciplinary research teams representing the fields of medicine, statistics, policy analysis, and engineering. His early vision is embodied in the University's Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and he has helped his students and numerous mentees to launch lines of inquiry that would not have been possible in the absence of multidisciplinary research approaches.

Dr. Roberts is an outstanding faculty member and his achievements have had a great impact on health services research and practice and decision modeling. These outstanding research accomplishments and his international reputation have resulted in a number of very productive and broad collaborative programs that Dr. Roberts has established with many leading research centers and institutions. Dr. Roberts continues to bring great distinction to the Graduate School of Public Health and to the University of Pittsburgh. He is a great teacher, mentor, leader, and an outstanding methodological researcher. He shares his skills and enthusiasm with his colleagues and students not only within the departments and schools in the University of Pittsburgh, but also with national and international collaborators. He richly deserves this recognition as being among the highest echelon of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.

Please join me in congratulating Professor Roberts on being appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor. He will present a Provost’s Lecture to mark this appointment at a future date.

Everette James
Dean (Interim) Graduate School of Public Health
Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Policy and Planning

 



9/03/2020
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