May 2009

Sherry Glied, PhD
Department Chair, Health Policy and Management, Professor of Health Policy Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
The Effects of the Tax Treatment of Health Insurance on Expenditures

Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MPH
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Meredith Rosenthal, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Uptake and Impact of Health Risk Appraisals in Employer-Sponsored Insurance

April 2009

Tom McGuire, PhD
Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Who Belongs in Managed Care? Using Premium Policy to Achieve an Efficient Assignment in Medicare

Lorens Helmchen, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
Does Voluntary Disclosure of Medical Errors Prompt or Prevent Medical Malpractice Suits?

Allison Beth Rosen, MD, MPH, ScD
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Health Management & Policy
Clinical Director, Center for Value-Based Insurance Design
University of Michigan
Value-Based Insurance Design: Restoring Health to the Health Care Cost Debate

March 2009

Eric Campbell, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Industry Relationships in Medicine and Research

February 2009

Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., PhD
Associate Professor, Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Economics
Returns to Local-Area Emergency Health Care Spending: Using Health Shocks to Patients Far From Home
Co-sponsored with the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School

Wesley Yin, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Insurer Bargaining and Negotiated Pharmacy Drug Prices in Medicare Part D
Co-sponsored with the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School

January 2009

Douglas R. Wholey, MBA, PhD
Visiting Professor, National Primary Care Research and Development Center, University of Manchester
Work and Talk: Work Groups and Informal Consulting
Co-sponsored with the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School

Jonathan Kolstad, PhD
Interdepartmental Program in Health Policy, Harvard University
Information and Quality when Motivation is Intrinsic: Evidence from Surgeon Report Cards
Co-sponsored with the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School

Amanda Kowalski, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Health and Aging
National Bureau of Economic Research
Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Expenditure on Medical Care
Co-sponsored with the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School

Nolan H. Miller, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Giffen Behavior, Subsistence Consumption and Nutrition
Co-sponsored with the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School

December 2008

Robert S. Huckman, PhD
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Co-Sponsored with the Health Care Management Department

Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Innovation, Patents and Public Health: Can We Reach a Proper Balance?

Robert J. Town, PhD
Associate Professor and Director MS-HSRP&A, Health Policy & Management
University of Minnesota
Adverse Selection, Welfare and the Optimal Pricing of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
Co-sponsored with the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School

November 2008

Robert Kaestner, PhD
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicare

Mireille Jacobson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy and Design and Economics
What is the Mission of a Not-for-Profit Hospital? Evidence from California's Seismic Retrofit Mandate
Co-sponsored with the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School

October 2008

Gerard Pouvourville, PhD
Professor, Chair of Health Economics and Management, ESSEC Business School

September 2008

M. Kate Bundorf, MBA, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Research and Policy and CHP/PCOR Fellow, Stanford University
Do Markets Respond to Quality Information? The Case of Fertility Clinics?

John Kastor, MD
Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Selling Teaching Hospitals and Practice Plans: George Washington & Georgetown Universites

May 2008

LDI Alumni Faculty Exchange
Urban Health: Issues and Actions

Janet Currie, PhD, MA
Chair and Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, Columbia University
Child Health and Academic Success: Is There a Connection?

April 2008

W. David Bradford, PhD
Professor of Health Administration & Policy, Department of Health Administration and Policy, Medical University of South Carolina
The Effect of Direct to Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising on Consumer Health Behaviors: the Case of Vioxx and Celebrex

February 2008

Howard Markel, MD, PhD
George Edward Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Health Management and Policy and Psychiatry; Director of the Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan
Catching the Flu: Applying Lessons from the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 to Public Health Strategies in the 21st Century

December 2007

David A. Hyman, JD, MD
Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor; Director, Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy, University of Illinois College of Law
Estimating The Effect of Damage Caps in Medical Malpractice Cases: Evidence from Texas

November 2007

Dale W. Bratzler, DO, MPH
QIOSC Medical Director, Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality
Medicare QIO Program: Researching Pay for Performance


Larry Casalino, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Health Studies
University of Chicago
How Much Does It Cost Physician Practices to Interact with Health Plans? Estimates by Type of Interaction, Specialty, and Practice Size

October 2007

Andrew Bindman, MD
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco; Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital
Moving Toward Evidence-Based Health Policy in California's Medicaid Program

September 2007

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD
C. Boyden Gray Associate Professor of Health Policy and Law
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
The Accuracy of the Medical Malpractice System: What the Evidence Tells Us

April 2007

Leemore Dafny, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive? A Test of Direct Price Discrimination

March 23, 2007
Barbara Mark, RN, PhD, FAAN
Sarah Frances Russell Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Controversies in Nurse Staffing Research


February 5, 2007
Sara Markowitz, PhD
Associate Professor of Economics at Rutgers University &
Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
The Effectiveness of Cigarette Regulations in Reducing Cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
co sponsored by The Center for Outcomes Research at CHOP and LDI


February 2, 2007
Richard Lindrooth, PhD
Associate Professor, Associate Director - CHEPS, The Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies, Medical University South Carolina
Hospital closure and Economic Efficiency


January 26, 2007
Somnath Saha, MD, MPH
Staff Physician, Portland VA Medical Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
Racial Disparities and the Patient-Physician Relationship


January 12, 2007
Charles C. Branas, PhD
Co-Director, Cartographic Modeling Laboratory; Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
Dennis Culhane, PhD
Co-Director, Cartographic Modeling Laboratory; Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry,Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania
Potential Meets Reality: Linking Health and Place through the Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML)


December 8, 2006
Peter Bearman, PhD
Co-Director of Columbia’s Health & Society Scholars Program; Professor, Department of Sociology; Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Columbia University
The Structure of Adolescent Sexual Networks


December 1, 2006
Gautam Gowrisankaran, PhD
Assistant Professor of Economics, John M. Olin School of Business Washington University, St. Louis
Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality: An Analysis of the Elderly


November 17, 2006
Anthony Lo Sasso, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Policy & Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of
Private Health Insurance


September 9, 2006
Rodney A. Hayward, MD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Epidemiological Malpractice: How Biomedical "Experts" Systematically MisInform Healthcare Policy"


April 7, 2006
Joseph A. DiMasi, PhD
Director of Economic Analysis, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University
The Cost of Biopharmaceutical R&D: Is Biotech Different?


March 17, 2006
Tanya M. Luhrmann, PhD
Max Palevsky Professor in the Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago
Social Defeat, or, Why Psychotic Homeless Women Don't Want Our Help


February 3, 2006
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Racial Disparities in Healthcare: Why Communication Matters


December 16, 2005
Michael E. Chernew, PhD
Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, Department of Economics, and Department of Internal Medicine,
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Managed Care and Medicare Expenditures


October 7, 2005
Mark Duggan, PhD
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Maryland; 2004-2006 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
The Distortionary Effects of Government Procurement: Evidence From Medicaid Prescription Drug Purchasing


May 6, 2005
Robert S. Huckman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Cohort Turnover and Productivity: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals

April 16, 2005
Paul Dolan, PhD
Professor of Economics at the University of Sheffield, England
Inequality Aversion and Social Welfare Functions


April 1, 2005
Tracy Lieu, MD, MPH
Associate Professor and Director, Center for Child Health Care Studies Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School
Vaccine Economics: Diseases, Dollars, and Dilemmas

April 29, 2005
Nancy Krieger, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health; Associate Director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health, Harvard University
The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project: Monitoring US Social Inequalities in Health


March 11, 2005
Len M. Nichols, PhD
Vice President, Center for Studying Health System Change
Future of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance

Dennis Scanlon, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Policy & Administration, Department of Health Policy & Administration, The Pennsylvania State University

November 1, 2004
Jon Chilingerian
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Management of Health Care Organizations, Brandeis University, Visiting Professor at INSEAD
Renewing Medical Strategies in Leuvan Medical Center: The Challenge of Internal and External Consistency


October 29, 2004
David Holtgrave, PhD
Professor, Center for AIDS Research, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Defining, Measuring and Ensuring HIV Prevention Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness

April 2, 2004
Helen G. Levy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
The Effect of Health Insurance on Access to Medical Care: Results from an Audit Study
(co-sponsored by RAND/Hartford Center of Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research)

April 1, 2004
R. Lawrence Van Horn, MBA, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Sciences, Economics and Management, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester
Board Composition And Private Inurement In Nonprofit Organizations: Evidence From Hospitals


March 19, 2004
James H. Cardon, PhD
Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics Brigham Young University
The Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising

February 6, 2004
Pierre Azoulay, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management
Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Medical Progress and Health Care Financing: Research in Academic Medical Centers Following the 1997 Medicare Cuts

January 23, 2004
Elliot Fisher, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and of Community and Family Medicine, Co-Director VA Outcomes Group, Dartmouth Medical School
Spending and Quality: Is more really worse? Why might this be?

January 16, 2004
John Ayanian, MD, MPP
Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
Health Consequences of Uninsurance: Research Findings and Policy Implications

December 5, 2003
Rosalie Kane, DSW
Professor, Division of Health Services Research and Policy, School of Public Health; member of the Graduate faculty, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota
Reinventing Long-Term Care for Older People in the United States
(co-sponsored by RAND/Hartford Center of Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research)

October 24, 2003
Dalton Conley, PhD, MPA
Professor of Sociology, New York University, Director, Center for Advanced Social Science Research (CASSR), Adjunct Associate Professor of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The Effect of Birth Weight on Literal (and Figurative) Life Chances
(co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania)


September 19, 2003
Peter Ubel, MD
LDI Adjunct Senior Fellow
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Michigan
Whose Quality of Life Should Guide Policy?

May 9, 2003
Driven to Tiers: Evidence and Implications of a Two-tiered System of Nursing Home Care
Jacqueline Zinn, PhD
LDI Adjunct Senior Fellow and Associate Professor and Director, Program in Healthcare Management Department of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University

April 25, 2003
Advertising, Regulations, and Smoking: The Case of Smoking Cessation Products
Donald S. Kenkel
Professor, Policy Analysis and Management Cornell University

April 14, 2003
Preventing HIV-AIDS among People with Serious Mental Illness
Seth Kalichman, PhD
Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut

April 11, 2003
Medicaid Managed Care and Health Care for Children in California

Laurence Baker, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Research and Policy
Stanford University

March 28, 2003
The Unintended Consequences of Fear-Based Pharmaceutical Marketing: The Case of Vaccines
David Bishai, MD, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Department of Population and Family Health Sciences

March 7, 2003

Technological Innovation and Health Outcomes: A New Look
Jonathon S. Skinner, PhD
John French Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School

November 15, 2002
The Effect of New Drugs on Longevity and Quality of Life
Frank Lichtenberg, PhD
Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business, Columbia University, Research Associate National Bureau of Economic Research, Columbia University Graduate School of Business

October 11, 2002
Financing Needs for the Medicare Program in the 21st Century
Robert O. Valdez, PhD
Senior Health Scientist
RAND Health Program, Washington, DC and Santa Monica, CA

September 10, 2002
Structural Approach to Antitrust Analysis in Health Care
David Dranove, PhD
Walter J. McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management, Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg Graduate School of Management

May 3, 2002
Inferring Disability Status from Corrupt Data
Brent Kreider, PhD
Associate Professor of Economics, Iowa State University
University of Wisconsin-Madison

April 5, 2002
Price Indexes, Cost Effectiveness Analysis and Productivity in Mental Health Care
Richard Frank, PhD
Professor of Health Economics
Harvard Medical School

March 22, 2002
Estimating Dynamic Models of Children's Health Insurance Coverage
John Ham, PhD
Professor of Economics
Ohio State University

February 15, 2002
Basic and Applied Research on Conflict of Interest
George Loewenstein, PhD
Professor of Economics and Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University

January 11, 2002
Competitive Spillovers Across Non-profit and For-profit Nursing Homes
Richard Hirth, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan

November 30, 2001
An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Michael Grossman, PhD
CUNY Distinguished Professor, Research Associate, and Program Director of Health Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research

May 17, 2002
Health Care Reform in Korea: Politics and Vested Interests
Soonman Kwon, PhD
Takemi Fellow and Fulbright Scholar
Harvard School of Public Health

May 3, 2002
Inferring Disability Status from Corrupt Data
Brent Kreider, PhD
Associate Professor of Economics, Iowa State University
University of Wisconsin-Madison

April 5, 2002
Price Indexes, Cost Effectiveness Analysis and Productivity in Mental Health Care
Richard Frank, PhD
Professor of Health Economics
Harvard Medical School

March 22, 2002
Estimating Dynamic Models of Children's Health Insurance Coverage
John Ham, PhD
Professor of Economics
Ohio State University

February 15, 2002
Basic and Applied Research on Conflict of Interest
George Loewenstein, PhD
Professor of Economics and Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University

January 11, 2002
Competitive Spillovers Across Non-profit and For-profit Nursing Homes
Richard Hirth, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan

November 30, 2001
An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Michael Grossman, PhD
CUNY Distinguished Professor, Research Associate, and Program Director of Health Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research

November 2, 2001
Optimal Commodity Taxation with Moral Hazard and Unobservable Outcomes
Gerard Russo, PhD
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Hawaii

October 5, 2001
Ownership and the Quality of Chronic Kidney Disease Care
Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Policy Management
Director, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution

June 1, 2001
Quality of Care and Mental Illness: Lessons Learned from Schizophrenia and Comparions to Medical Quality
Donald M. Steinwachs, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health

May 4, 2001
Measuring the Quality of Health Care Providers: The Case of Neonatal Intensive Care
Jeannette Rogowski, PhD
Senior Economist, RAND
LDI Adjunct Senior Fellow

April 27, 2001
Children's Utilization Of Prescription Drugs
John Mullahy, PhD
Interim Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

April 13, 2001
Why Are Americans Healthier Than We Used To Be [And Who Cares]
David Cutler, PhD
John L. Loeb Professor of Social Sciences
Department of Economics, Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

March 9, 2001
Alternative Valuations of Workloss and Productivity
Marc Berger, MD
Executive Director, USHH Outcomes Research Management, Merck & Co., Inc., LDI Adjunct Senior Fellow
Merck & Co., Inc.

March 2, 2001
Measuring willingness-to-pay for risk reduction: an application of conjoint analysis?
Peter Zweifel, PhD
Professor of Economics, University of Zurich
Chief Editor, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics (IJHCFE)

February 9, 2001
Economic Issues in Comparing Antidepressant Drug Therapy, Psychotherapy, and their Combination for the Treatment of Acute Phase Chronic Depression
Ernst R. Berndt
Louis B. Seley Professor of Applied Economics
MIT Sloan

January 19, 2001
How Are Volume and Outcome Related in Health Care, and What Should We Do About it?
Mark R. Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH
Professor and Chairman, Department of Health Policy
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

June 2, 2000
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Working with State Medicaid Data and Populations
Peg Dierkers, Ph.D.
Deputy Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare

May 5, 2000
Estimating Hospital Competition: A New Approach
Martin S. Gaynor, Ph.D.
E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management,
Department of Economics, and Graduate School of Industrial Administration,
Administration, Carnegie Mellon University

April 21, 2000
The Impact of Individual and Market Factors on the Timing of Initiation
of Hospice Terminal Care: Some Results and Some New Work
Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Sociology
Section of General Internal Medicine
University of Chicago Medical Center

March 24, 2000
Friendly Fire in the War Against Cancer: A Casualty Report
H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., M.P.H
Co-Director of the VA Outcomes Group, White River Junction
VT Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and
Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School

February 25, 2000
Children's Mental Health: Where Are We Heading?

Annie G. Steinberg, M.D. Director, Deafness and Family Communication Center, Children's Seashore House of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Michele Wilson, M.D. Assistant, Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

January 21, 2000
Benefits and Costs of Medical Specialization: Initial Insights from a Randomized Trial of Hospitalists
David Meltzer, M.D.,Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine
University of Toronto Departments of Medicine & Economics and Harris
Graduate School Public Policy Studies
University of Chicago

December 3, 1999
The Effect of an Academy Award on the Health of a Star
Donald A. Redelmeier, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Toronto

November 12, 1999
Is Patient-Centered Care Effective?
Robert Nease, PhD,
Associate Professor of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine

October 8, 1999
New Evidence on the Economics of Smoking Behavior
Jonathan Gruber, PhD
Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

October 1, 1999
Prices and Productivity in Medical Care
Joseph P. Newhouse, PhD
John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management
Harvard University

June 18, 1999
Health System Change in 12 Communities: Update After 2 Years
Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD
President, Center for Studying Health System Change

May 7, 1999
The Role of Web Agents in Medical Knowledge Management
Barry G. Silverman, PhD
Professor, Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

March 5, 1999
Managed Care & Provision of Managed Care
William D. White, PhD
Associate Professor
Head, Health Management Program, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

January 15, 1999
The Demand for Private Insurance when Public Insurance is Compulsory: Evidence from Australia
James R.G. Butler, PhD
Senior Fellow, Health Economics
National Center for Epidemiology & Population Health
The Australian National University