Matthew Maciejewski PhD

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Matthew Maciejewski, PhD

Matt Maciejewski, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences. He is also a Research Career Scientist and Director of the Health Economics and Policy Unit in the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VA Medical Center. Matt also holds Adjunct Professor appointments in the Schools of Public Health and Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additionally, he has been named a member of the Editorial Board for Health Services Research.

He has research interests in four areas:

1) evaluation of surgical and behavioral interventions for the management of obesity and cardiometabolic conditions
2) evaluation of cost-sharing changes on demand for medications and health services
3) analysis of health care utilization and expenditures in experimental and quasi-experimental studies
4) methods for addressing unobserved confounding in observational studies.

Matt has received funding from NIDA, CMS, AHRQ, VA HSR&D, and the RWJ Foundation. He has published over 190 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Surgery, Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Economics, Medical Care, Health Services Research, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Diabetes Care.

Areas of expertise: Health Services Research, Health Economics, Health Policy, Multimorbidity

Boyd CM, Shetterly SM, Powers JD, Weffald LA, Green AR, Sheehan OC, et al. Evaluating the Safety of an Educational Deprescribing Intervention: Lessons from the Optimize Trial. Drugs Aging. 2023 Nov 20;

Hung A, Wong ES, Dennis PA, Stechuchak KM, Blalock DV, Smith VA, et al. Real World Use of Anti-Obesity Medications and Weight Change in Veterans. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Nov 14;

Ioannou GN, Berry K, Rajeevan N, Li Y, Mutalik P, Yan L, et al. Effectiveness of Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir Against the Development of Post-COVID-19 Conditions Among U.S. Veterans : A Target Trial Emulation. Ann Intern Med. 2023 Nov;176(11):1486–97.