Dr William Crown, CSO

Dr Crown is the former CSO at OptumLabs, and Distinguished Research Scientist at the The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Dr Crown is an internationally recognized expert in real world data analysis, focusing upon research designs and statistical methods for drawing causal inferences from transactional health care datasets such as medical claims and electronic health records. He recently co-chaired the ISPOR Task Force on Machine Learning, as well as the Joint ISPOR/ISPE Task Force to enhance the reproducibility of hypothesis evaluating treatment effectiveness studies. He is particularly interested in the intersection of machine learning and causal inference methods, as well as transparency in the conduct and reporting of empirical health care research. He holds a PhD from MIT in Urban and Regional Economic Modelling and MA in Economics from Boston University.