Health Economics Workshop with Kate Bundorf, PhD, MBA, MPH (co-hosted by Wharton’s Health Care Management Dept. and the Penn Economics Dept.)

“Machine-Based Expert Recommendations and Consumer Decision-Making: The Case of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans”

12:00p.m. – 1:20p.m. October 26, 2018

Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

M. Kate Bundorf is an Associate Professor of Health Research and Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine, a Stanford Health Policy Fellow, and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economics and Policy Research. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her M.B.A. and M.P.H. degrees from The University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. from The Wharton School. She was a Fulbright Lecturer and Visiting Professor at Fudan University School of Public Health in Shanghai, China in 2009 and 2010. Her research, which focuses on health insurance and health care provider markets, has been published in leading economics and health policy journals and has received funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. She received the 13th Annual Health Care Research Award from The National Institute for Health Care Management in 2007 and was a finalist for the award in 2013. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Health Economics, the American Journal of Health Economics, Health Services Research and Medical Care Research and Review and an editor-in-chief for the International Journal of Health Economics and Management. She has served on the Panel of Health Advisors for the Congressional Budget Office and the Technical Review Panel for the Medicare Trustees Report.

This event is free and open to the public, but please register.

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