LDI Research Seminar with Pinar Karaca-Mandic, PhD

“Competition and Peer-Effects in Medical Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents”

7:00a.m. – 8:30a.m. November 14, 2014

Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

Pinar Karaca-Mandic, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Management. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on health insurance benefit design, health care regulations, insurance markets and medical technology diffusion. Her research has been published in leading economics, policy and medical journals. Her research has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is the recipient of a KO1 career grant from the National Institutes of Health through which she is also embarking on a new line of research on physician medical technology adoption. Dr. Karaca-Mandic received her PhD in economics from the University of California-Berkeley in 2004.


This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Sponsored by the Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture Fund