2008 Attendees

Tamer Abdelgawad, MA
Economic & Policy Research, Pfizer, Inc.
Tamer.Abdelgawad@pfizer.com

Caleb Alexander, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
calexand@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

James Anton, PhD
Professor of Economics, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
james.anton@duke.edu

Anirban Basu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
abasu@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University
jay@stanford.edu

Kate Bundorf, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
bundorf@stanford.edu

Andreea Cohen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
andreea.cohen@tufts.edu

Dalton Conely, PhD
University Professor of the Social Sciences and Chair of Sociology at New York University
conley@nyu.edu

Rena Conti, PhD
Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago
rconti@uchicago.edu

Peter Coy, BA
Economics editor, Business Week
peter_coy@businessweek.com

William Encinosa, PhD
Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
william.encinosa@ahrq.hhs.gov

Andy Epstein, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Administration, Yale School of Public Health
andrew.epstein@yale.edu

Jason Fletcher, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Administration, Yale School of Public Health
jason.fletcher@yale.edu

Bob Fogel, PhD
Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, Graduate School of Business, The University of Chicago
frfogel@chicagogsb.edu

Mike Hagan, PhD cand.
Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Michael.Hagan@ahrq.hhs.gov

James Heckman, PhD
The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, The University of Chicago
awb143@uchicago.edu

Lorens Helmchen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
helmchen@uic.edu

Rich Hirth, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Health Management and Policy and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
rhirth@umich.edu

David Howard, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
david.howard@emory.edu

Tamara Konetzka, PhD
Assistant Professor, Health Services Research, Department of Health Studies, The University of Chicago
konetzka@health.bsd.uchicago.edu

Pierre Léger, PhD
Associate Professor HEC Montréal
pierre-thomas.leger@hec.ca

Steve Lehrer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Policy Studies and Department of Economics, Queen’s University
lehrers@queensu.ca

Lindsey Leininger, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, The University of Chicago
leiningr@uchicago.edu

Helen Levy, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Research & Assistant Research Scientist, School of Public Health, The University of Michigan
hlevy@umich.edu

Claudio Lucarelli, PhD
Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
cl443@cornell.edu

Neale Mahoney, PhD cand.
Department of Economics, Stanford University
neale.mahoney@gmail.com

Will Manning, PhD
Professor in the Department of Health Studies, and the Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago
w-manning@uchicago.edu

James Marton, PhD
Associate Professor, Economics Department, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
ecojhm@langate.gsu.edu

David Meltzer, MD, PhD
Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences & Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Economics, and the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
dmeltzer@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

Amol Navathe, MD/PhD cand.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School
amol@wharton.upenn.edu

Emily Oster, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Chicago & Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
eoster@uchicago.edu

Anjali Oza, PhD cand.
Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
aoza@uchicago.edu

Tom Philipson, PhD
Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and in the Department of Economics and the Law School, The University of Chicago
t-philipson@uchicago.edu

Harold Pollack, PhD
Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, The University of Chicago
haroldp@uchicago.edu

Dan Polsky, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Systems, School of Medicine and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
polsky@mail.med.upenn.edu

Atonu Rabbani, PhD
Post-doctoral Scholar, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
arabbani@bsd.uchicago.edu

Tauhid Rahman, PhD
Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of Arizona
tauhid@ag.arizona.edu

David Ridley, PhD
Assistant Professor of Strategy, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
david.ridley@duke.edu

Glenn Schumock, PharmD, MBA
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice & Director of the Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research, University of Illinois at Chicago
schumock@uic.edu

Tom Summerfelt, PhD
Executive Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences and  Research Associate Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at The University of Chicago
tom.summerfelt@uchicago.edu

Hyo Tak, PhD cand.
Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
htak@uchicago.edu

Bob Town, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota
rjtown@umn.edu

Rev.Stanley Watkins
District Director & Chief of Staff, Congressman Bobby L. Rush
Stanley.Watkins@mail.house.gov

Aaron Winn, Grad Student
Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
awinn@bsd.uchicago.edu

Aaron Yelowitz, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Kentucky
aaron@email.uky.edu

Michèle Sennhauser, Grad Student
University of Zurich/The University of Chicago
michele.sennhauser@soi.uzh.ch