Eric Sun

Eric Sun is an instructor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. His current research interests include understanding the economics of medical group structure and the economics of treatment for chronic pain. The latter is funded by a Mentored Research Training Grant for the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research. Sun graduated from Princeton University in 2000 with a degree in molecular biology, after which he began studying for an MD/PhD at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in business economics in 2006—his thesis examined the economics of medical liability and drug safety regulation. He then spent two years as an economist at the RAND Corporation, where his research focused on the value of cancer therapies and cancer survival improvements. Sun then returned to the University of Chicago to complete his medical studies and went on to a residency in anesthesiology at Stanford University, which he completed in June 2014.