Meredith Kilgore, RN, PhD, is Professor and Chair, Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Co-director of the Pharmaco-Epidemiology and Economics Research Group, and Co-Director of the UAB Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education. He holds degrees in Nursing, Political Science, and Public Health as well as a PhD in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School. He has over two decades of experience in health services and outcomes research and has 131 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA, Medical Care, and Inquiry. Much of his work has involved the use of large administrative datasets to conduct research focusing on health policy and outcomes research focused cancer, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease.