Aidan Crowley is an MD-PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania in the Health Care Management and Economics program at The Wharton School. Her primary research areas in health economics include the effects of Medicare payment policy and alternative payment models on clinician and organizational incentives, as well as physician labor supply, training, and specialization. Crowley works as a research assistant at The Parity Center, where she evaluates accountable care and bundled payment programs, primary care payment redesign, social risk adjustment, and analysis of primary care-specialist relationships. Her PhD dissertation studies the effects of the unionization of medical residents on patient outcomes and hospital productivity.
Crowley graduated from the University of Notre Dame as a Stamps Scholar with a B.S. in Neuroscience & Behavior and minors in Poverty Studies and Compassionate Care in Medicine. Prior to medical school, she worked as a research assistant at Mayo Clinic, a health policy research fellow for a congressional campaign, and a research assistant in the Section of Health Services Research at the University of Copenhagen.
