Visiting Professor, AUA Turpanjian College of Health Sciences (CHS), Seymour and Ruth Perlin Professor of Health Administration and Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University College of Health Professions
PhD, University of Minnesota
MA, University of Washington
Dr. Adam Atherly is an experienced health services researcher and health economist whose research spans numerous methodological and topical areas, including choice modeling, healthcare spending and expenditure modeling, scale development and psychometric analysis, evaluation of efforts to improve quality of care and patient safety, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Dr. Atherly has published more than 100 peer review papers and book chapters. Numerous papers focus on the effect of health on health care spending, including lifetime spending and life expectancy projections for Medicare beneficiaries with and without chronic illnesses and the effect of copayments and other cost sharing on health care spending. Dr. Atherly has also completed many cost effectiveness studies, on topics ranging from cancer to asthma to Covid-19. His research often focuses on consumer decisions regarding health insurance plan choice, and, more recently, value-based healthcare. Dr. Atherly is an experienced teacher and has taught courses in health economics, health policy, research methods, cost effectiveness and more at levels ranging from introductory undergraduate courses to doctoral seminars. Dr. Atherly also has a long-standing collaboration with American University of Armenia, where he has an academic appointment and has taught periodic courses for nearly two decades.