Dr. Kao-Ping Chua has been installed as the as the inaugural Marilyn Fisher Blanch Research Professorship in Child Health Policy. Dr. Chua is also an assistant professor of pediatrics and of health management and policy and director of the Child Health Evaluation and Research Center (CHEAR). Dr. Chua’s research focuses on improving the quality of opioid prescribing and on evaluating the effects of policies on this prescribing. He has published several key studies on pediatric opioid prescribing, including a study describing the prevalence, prescribers, and safety of opioid prescriptions to children and young adults, as well as a national study identifying opioid prescribing patterns associated with opioid overdose among adolescents and young adults. He is funded by multiple R01 grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Dr. Chua also serves as the Opioid Research Institute’s Research and Data Domain co-director.
The Marilyn Fisher Blanch Research Professorship in Child Health Policy honors Marilyn Fisher Blanch, and was established by Marylin’s daughter Susan and son-in-law Paul Meister.
