Aaron Edward Carroll is an American pediatrician and professor of pediatrics at

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. Carroll is a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also an Associate Dean for Research Mentoring and the director of the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Comparative Effectiveness Research at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Education

Carroll received his B.A. in chemistry from

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in 1994 and his M.D. from the

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in 1998. After receiving his M.D., he completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at the

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, where he received his M.S. in

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in 2003. While there, he was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.

Work

Carroll's research focuses on

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in pediatrics, cost-effectiveness analyses in medicine, and

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. Along with Rachel C. Vreeman, he co-authored the 2011 book ''Don't Cross Your Eyes ... They'll Get Stuck That Way! And 75 Other Health Myths Debunked'', which debunks medical myths. Along with Austin Frakt, he writes a column for ''

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'' called "The New Health Care", where he gave his own experiences with

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as an example of the benefits and difficulties of the health care system. He and Frakt are also co-editors-in-chief of the medical blog the Incidental Economist. Carroll is also the host of the

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series "Healthcare Triage".

References

External links

Faculty page
* www.nytimes.com

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