David D. Kim, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago. His interdisciplinary research integrates health economics, policy evaluation, and decision modeling to advance value-based healthcare decision-making. Dr. Kim’s work has focused on defining and measuring the value of health interventions and guiding policies that promote the use of high-value care while discouraging low-value care. He has developed innovative analytical frameworks in economic evaluation and disease simulation models, including a Decision Framework for Assessing Transferability of Economic Evaluation, the Criteria for Health Economic Quality Evaluation (CHEQUE) tool, and the Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular Disease Microsimulation (DOC-M) model. His work has been published in leading journals, including JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, and Medical Decision Making, and has received coverage in major media outlets, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Dr. Kim serves as a member of the World Health Organization’s Guidelines Development Group for GLP-1RAs for obesity management, the Midwest Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council at the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), and as an Associate Method Editor for Annals of Internal Medicine.