Adam Atherly, Ph.D., is an experienced health services research 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 also has a long-standing collaboration with American University of Armenia, where he holds an academic appointment and has taught periodic courses for nearly two decades.