M. Kate Bundorf, PhD, MBA, MPH

M. Kate Bundorf is an Assistant Professor of Health Research and Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine.  She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  She received her M.B.A. and M.P.H. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996 and her Ph.D. from the Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania in 2000.  Her research interests include the determinants and effects of individual and purchaser health insurance choices, the effects of regulation in health insurance markets, the interaction of public and private systems of health insurance, incentives for insurers to improve health care quality, and the economics of the market for fertility treatments.