Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, and directs the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory, a modeling and simulation group at the University. He also holds appointments as professor of Medicine, professor of Industrial Engineering and professor of Clinical and Translational Science. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College, a Doctor of Medicine from Tufts University, and a Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School. He completed training in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical School, where he was a resident and fellow. Over the past 30 years he has conducted several NIH-funded research programs in the use of mathematics, simulation and decision sciences to improve health care decisions and the delivery of care. He was the founding chief of the Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling, a research section in the department of Medicine.  He has published over 170 papers in academic journals, and been funded on over 40 federally funded grants. He was the 2014 Recipient of the Society for Medical Decision Making Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions in decision sciences. Educationally, he has developed and taught courses in decision analysis and cost effectiveness analysis for several universities, professional societies, pharmaceutical companies and other organizations, both domestically and internationally.  He has been the Chair of the education committee for the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), and is a member of several other national societies, including the recent President of the society for Medical Decision Making. For the federal government, he has been a member of several NIH research grant review panels, and for two years was chair of the Health Care Technology Assessment and Decision Science review panel.