Positions: Assistant Staff, Health Outcome Research and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, 2005-present Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University Education: B.S., Genetics and Cell Biology, Peking University, China. M.S., Pharmaceutical Policy and Evaluative Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Policy and Evaluative Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.

Key Interests:

Dr. Fu's primary research and teaching focus on health economic evaluation in clinical trials, and health services and outcomes research using large observational data. He also has research interest and experience in pharmacoeconomics, utility assessment, health policy evaluation, propensity score method, and econometrics. He studies mainly on diabetes and mental health illnesses as health applications. Dr. Fu is currently working on several clinical trials with a focus on cost-effectiveness data collection, decision-tree modeling, and cost-effectiveness analysis.

Selected Publications:

•  Fu AZ, Kattan MW. Utilities should not be multiplied: Evidence from the preference-based scores in the United States. Medical Care 2008;46(9): 984-990.

•  Fu AZ, Li L. Thinking of having a higher predictive power for your first-stage model in propensity score analysis? Think again. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology 2008;8(2): 115-117.

•  Fu AZ, Wang N. Healthcare Expenditure and Patient Satisfaction: Cost and Quality from the Consumer's Perspective in the United States. Current Medical Research and Opinion 2008;24(5): 1385-1394.

•  Liu GG, Dow WH, Fu AZ, Akin J, Lance P. Income productivity in China: On the role of health. Journal of Health Economics 2008;27(1):27-44.

•  Fu AZ, Dow WH, Liu GG. Propensity score and difference-in-difference methods: a study of second-generation antidepressant use in patients with bipolar disorder. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology 2007;7(1-2): 23-38.

•  Fu AZ, Jiang JZ, Reeves JH, Fincham JE, Liu GG, Perri M III. Potentially inappropriate medication use and healthcare expenditures in the US community-dwelling elderly. Medical Care 2007;45(5):472-476.

•  Fu AZ, Liu GG, Christensen DB, Hansen RA. Effect of second-generation antidepressants on mania- and depression-related visits in adults with bipolar disorder: a retrospective study. Value in Health 2007;10(2):128-36.

•  Fu AZ, Kattan MW. Racial and ethnic differences in preference-based health status measure. Current Medical Research and Opinion 2006;22(12): 2439-2448.

•  Fu AZ, Christensen DB, Hansen RA, Liu GG. Second-generation antidepressant discontinuation and depressive relapse in adult patients with bipolar depression: results of a retrospective database analysis. Clinical Therapeutics 2006;28(6): 979–989.

•  Fu AZ, Krishnan AA, Harris SD, Tompson TR. The economic burden of bipolar-related phases of depression versus mania. Drug Benefit Trends 2004;16(11): 569-575.

•  Fu AZ, Liu GG, Christensen DB. Inappropriate medication use and health outcomes in the elderly. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2004;52(11): 1934-1939.