Keynote

OPENING KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Sunday, November 9, 2008

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

David M. Eddy, MD, PhD

Medical Director and Founder of Archimedes

David Eddy is Medical Director and Founder of Archimedes, responsible for the medical development of the model. He started his career as a Professor of Engineering and Medicine at Stanford, and the J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management at Duke University. David received his MD from the University of Virginia and his PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems (Applied Mathematics) from Stanford. More than 25 years ago David wrote the seminal paper on the role of guidelines in medical decision making, the first Markov model applied to clinical problems, the original criteria for coverage decisions, and was the first to use and publish the term evidence-based. David is the author of five books, more than 100 first-authored articles, and a series of essays for the Journal of the American Medical Association. His writings span from technical mathematical theories to broad health policy topics. David has received top national and international awards in fields including applied mathematics, health technology assessment, health care quality, and outcomes research. He has been elected or appointed to more than forty national and international boards and commissions — including Consumers Union, the National Board of Mathematics, the World Health Organization Panel of Experts, The Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Advisory Panel, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance — and is a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences.