Dr. Elbert Huang is Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy, and Associate Director of the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research at the University of Chicago. From 2010-2011, he served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Huang is a general internist who studies clinical and health care policy issues at the intersection of diabetes, aging, and health economics. His main research focus is in the area of medical decision making for elderly patients with type 2 diabetes where uncertainty exists regarding how to best individualize diabetes treatments based on clinical parameters and patient preferences. Over the past decade, Dr. Huang has established one of the most active research programs in geriatric diabetes in the country.
Apart from his work in geriatric diabetes, Dr. Huang has also performed other seminal translational diabetes research in the area of cost-effectiveness analysis. He performed the economic analyses of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Health Disparities Collaboratives initiative of diabetes quality improvement in community health centers that serve the indigent. With this one study, he performed one of the first business case analyses from the perspective of the community health center as well as one of the first societal cost-effectiveness analyses of a quality improvement initiative.
Dr. Huang’s research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Diabetes Association, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He has received numerous honors including the Research Paper of the Year Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine and elected membership to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Huang received his A.B., M.D., and M.P.H. from Harvard University and came to the University of Chicago in 2001.
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
MPH - Clinical Effectiveness
2001
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
- Fellow, General Internal Medicine Faculty Development and Fellowship Program
2001
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA
- Internship and Residency
1999
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
MD - Medicine
1996
Harvard College
Cambridge, MA
BA - Biology
1992
First-Line Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes With Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists : A Cost-Effectiveness Study.
Choi JG, Winn AN, Skandari MR, Franco MI, Staab EM, Alexander J, Wan W, Zhu M, Huang ES, Philipson L, Laiteerapong N. First-Line Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes With Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists : A Cost-Effectiveness Study. Ann Intern Med. 2022 10; 175(10):1392-1400.
PMID: 36191315
Quality of Care for US Adults With Medicaid Insurance and Type 2 Diabetes in Federally Qualified Health Centers Compared With Other Primary Care Settings.
Knitter AC, Murugesan M, Saulsberry L, Wan W, Nocon RS, Huang ES, Bolton J, Chin MH, Laiteerapong N. Quality of Care for US Adults With Medicaid Insurance and Type 2 Diabetes in Federally Qualified Health Centers Compared With Other Primary Care Settings. Med Care. 2022 11 01; 60(11):813-820.
PMID: 36040020
The Economic Evaluation of Team Clinic-Group Approach to a Care Model of Early Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes.
Wan W, Nathan AG, Reid MW, Majidi S, Fogel JL, Raymond JK, Huang ES. The Economic Evaluation of Team Clinic-Group Approach to a Care Model of Early Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes. J Pediatr Health Care. 2022 Sep-Oct; 36(5):430-437.
PMID: 35831218
Can Alternative Payment Models And Value-Based Insurance Design Alter The Course Of Diabetes In The United States?
Wang S, Weyer G, Duru OK, Gabbay RA, Huang ES. Can Alternative Payment Models And Value-Based Insurance Design Alter The Course Of Diabetes In The United States? Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 07; 41(7):980-984.
PMID: 35759703
Early experience of the quality improvement award program in federally funded health centers.
Jin JL, Bolton J, Nocon RS, Huang ES, Hoang H, Sripipatana A, Chin MH. Early experience of the quality improvement award program in federally funded health centers. Health Serv Res. 2022 10; 57(5):1070-1076.
PMID: 35396732
Delayed medical care and its perceived health impact among US older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zhong S, Huisingh-Scheetz M, Huang ES. Delayed medical care and its perceived health impact among US older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 06; 70(6):1620-1628.
PMID: 35393637
Estimating the Impact of Medicaid Expansion and Federal Funding Cuts on FQHC Staffing and Patient Capacity.
Jiao S, Konetzka RT, Pollack HA, Huang ES. Estimating the Impact of Medicaid Expansion and Federal Funding Cuts on FQHC Staffing and Patient Capacity. Milbank Q. 2022 06; 100(2):504-524.
PMID: 35411969
Factors associated with federally qualified health center financial performance.
Jung D, Huang ES, Mayeda E, Tobey R, Turer E, Maxwell J, Coleman A, Saber J, Petrie S, Bolton J, Duplantier D, Hoang H, Sripipatana A, Nocon R. Factors associated with federally qualified health center financial performance. Health Serv Res. 2022 10; 57(5):1058-1069.
PMID: 35266139
Defining Minimum Necessary Communication During Care Transitions for Patients on Antihyperglycemic Medication: Consensus of the Care Transitions Task Force of the IPRO Hypoglycemia Coalition.
Munshi MN, Sy SL, Florez HJ, Huang ES, Lipska KJ, Myrka A, Marcos Valencia W, Yu J, Triller DM. Defining Minimum Necessary Communication During Care Transitions for Patients on Antihyperglycemic Medication: Consensus of the Care Transitions Task Force of the IPRO Hypoglycemia Coalition. Diabetes Ther. 2022 Mar; 13(3):535-549.
PMID: 35224691
12. Retinopathy, Neuropathy, and Foot Care: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes-2022.
12. Retinopathy, Neuropathy, and Foot Care: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes-2022. Diabetes Care. 2022 01 01; 45(Suppl 1):S185-S194.
PMID: 34964887
Award for Leadership
Midwest Region Society of General Internal Medicine
2018
American Society for Clinical Investigation, Elected Member
2011
Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine, M.D., Excellence in Clinical Research Award
JDRF
2011
Leif B. Sorensen Faculty Research Award
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
2011
Research Paper of the Year Award
Society of General Internal Medicine
2009
Presidential Poster Session Award (Preventive Medicine)
American Geriatrics Society
2007
Presidential Poster Session Award (Quality of Life)
American Geriatrics Society
2006
Merck New Investigator Award
American Geriatrics Society
2006
Junior Faculty Research Abstract Award
Midwest Society of General Internal Medicine
2001