C. Daniel Mullins, PhD is a Professor within the Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Department at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. He received his BS in Economics from M.I.T. and his MA and PhD in Economics from Duke University. His research and teaching focus on pharmacoeconomics, comparative effectiveness research, and health disparities research. He has received funding as a Principal Investigator from the NIA and NHLBI and was the Shared Resources Core Director for the NIH-sponsored University of Maryland Center for Health Disparities Research, Training, and Outreach. He also has served as a co-Investigator on other grants funded by AHRQ, HRSA and the NIH. He was a member of the Health Systems Research (HSR) study section of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) from 2004 to 2006 and currently is an ad hoc Study Section member for the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

In addition to his work on federal grants, Professor Mullins has designed many cost-effectiveness analyses and budget impact models for both the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. He is co-Editor-in-Chief for Value in Health and is author/co-author of over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on pharmacoeconomics, outcomes research, and pharmaceutical policy and health disparities research in journals such as The American Journal of Managed Care, The American Journal of Public Health, Cancer, Chest, The Journal of Trauma, Health Services Research, Pharmacoeconomics, Social Science & Medicine, and Transplantation. Dr. Mullins was a member of the Maryland Health Care Commission Hospital and Ambulatory Surgical Facility Report Card Steering Committee. Prior to his graduate studies, he was an Actuary and Market Researcher for the John Hancock Insurance Company. In 2002, he was the recipient of an Outstanding Service Award from the Drug Information Association (DIA) and in 2006 and 2008 he received an International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Service Award. In 2007, he received the Dr. Patricia Sokolove Outstanding Mentor Award from the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus-wide Graduate Student Association.