Dr. Hughes is a Professor in Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions. An economist by training, his research focuses on the roles of technology, innovation, and incentives in the delivery and usage of health care services – with a specific focus on the economics of diagnostic imaging. He has a passion for developing mathematical models with practical and relevant policy applications and is equally at home developing optimization and simulation models common to operations research as performing economic and econometric analyses. Dr. Hughes has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications and his externally funded research has focused on exploiting large scale data to explore contemporary health policy issues.
Dr. Hughes’ previous experience includes serving on the faculties of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Economics, where he served as Director of the Health Economics and Analytics Lab (HEAL); the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center’s Department of Health Administration and Policy; and the University of South Alabama’s Department of Economics and Finance. He has also held non-academic positions as Executive Director of the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, Assistant Director of Research for the American College of Radiology, a Research Fellow at the Logistics Management Institute, and as a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Operations Specialist in the United States Army. Dr. Hughes earned a B.S. in Economics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in Economics from the University of Georgia.