Dr. Kao-Ping Chua is a primary care pediatrician and health policy researcher in the Department of Pediatrics and the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center at the University of Michigan Medical School.
After completing his pediatrics residency at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, he obtained a Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard University with a concentration in evaluative sciences and statistics.
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 Institute’s Research and Data Domain co-director.