Dr. Bacon is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Epidemiology, the Department of Internal Medicine, at the University of Utah. Bacon has a PhD and an MA in cognitive and physiological Experimental Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an MBA with specializations in marketing, econometrics, and healthcare management from the Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Rush University in Chicago where he did neuroscience research on healthy and patient populations, and he rounded with the clinical neurology and neurosurgery services.
At Utah Dr. Bacon has taught graduate level and post-graduate courses in data science, machine learning, and research methods. He has taught graduate-level courses for The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business, The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Rush University, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and for Northwestern University.
Dr. Bacon does research about consumer behavior, evidence-based decision-making, health services delivery, product and service design, and machine learning and AI applications. Dr. Bacon has been a member of the senior management of venture-funded technology and information services firms. He been on the boards or advisory boards of six corporations, and he founded two analytic software companies.