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Chicago, IL - December 8, 2005 Panelists Christopher J. Conover, Ph.D.
Christopher J. Conover is assistant research professor of public policy studies in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, senior fellow in the Center for Health Policy at Duke University, and Director of the Health Policy Certificate Program. He received his doctorate in policy analysis from the RAND Graduate School. His research interests are in State health policy, with a focus on issues related to health care for the medically indigent, estimating the magnitude of the social burden of illness, and health regulation. He teaches in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Conover has provided policy advice on access and cost issues to Governors and legislative groups at the Federal and State levels. He has recently testified before Congress on the economic costs of health care regulation, publishing Health Care Regulation: A $169 Billion Hidden Tax. Dr. Conover has served as a consultant to the North Carolina Health Reform Commission, served 4 years as a Governor-appointed member of the North Carolina Council on Health Policy Information, and was a member of the Task Force on Child Health Insurance. He also has developed the Health Policy Cyberexchange (http://www.hpolicy.duke.edu/cyberexchange) and Who's Who in Health Policy (http://www.hpolicy.duke.edu/cyberexchange/whowho.html) in hopes of using the Internet to foster more evidence-based health policy decisions. David Dranove is the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at Northwestern University 's Kellogg School of Management, where he is also professor of management and strategy and director of the Center for Health Industry Market Economics. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. Dr. Dranove’s research focuses on problems in industrial organization and business strategy, with an emphasis on the health care industry. His popular book The Economic Evolution of American Health Care analyzes the rise and current status of managed care. His latest book, What’s Your Life Worth?, explores health care rationing. Leading business schools around the world use his textbook The Economics of Strategy. Dr. Dranove's health economics research focuses on issues of competition, insurance, medical supply, and provider and patient behavior. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and has contributed numerous chapters to books on health economics and health policy. Robert B. Helms is a resident scholar and director of health policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). He has written and lectured extensively on health policy, health economics, and pharmaceutical economic issues. Dr. Helms currently participates in the Consensus Group, an informal task force that is developing market-oriented health reform concepts. He also serves on the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Medicaid Commission. Dr. Helms is the editor of several AEI publications on health policy, including American Health Policy: Critical Issues for Reform; Health Policy Reform: Competition and Controls; Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry; and Medicare in the Twenty-First Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform. He has also written on the history of Medicare, the tax treatment of health insurance, and international comparisons of health systems. From 1981 to 1989, Dr. Helms served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation and deputy assistant secretary for health policy at HHS. Michael A. Morrisey is a professor of health economics and health insurance at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), School of Public Health. He is also director of the UAB Lister Hill Center for Health Policy. Dr. Morrisey is the author of four books and more than 130 papers on health economics and health policy topics. His research interests include employer-sponsored health insurance, regulation in health care markets, and issues of hospital economics. He is currently involved in research projects dealing with employee premium contributions for family coverage, the effects of motor vehicle laws affecting the youngest and oldest drivers, and the effects of medical malpractice reform on health insurance premiums. Dr. Morrisey is a member of the editorial boards of Health Affairs, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, and Medical Care Research and Review. He is the former secretary/treasurer of the International Health Economics Association, a fellow of the Employee Benefits Research Institute, and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He was the first recipient of the John Thompson Young Investigator Award for health services research given by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. In 2000, Dr. Morrisey received the UAB School of Public Health Distinguished Investigator Award, and in 2001 he received the UAB School of Public Health President’s Award for Teaching. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in Seattle. Dan Mulholland holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Duquesne University and a J.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Mulholland is a senior partner in Horty, Springer & Mattern. He serves as a faculty member of the Estes Park Institute and as chair of the Credentialing and Peer Review Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association. The National Law Journal named him one of 40 health care attorneys in the country “who have made their mark.” He has spoken and written widely on a variety of health law topics. Mr. Mulholland works extensively on hospital corporate and physician contract matters, managed care and integrated delivery system contracts and development, and litigation. He is nationally known for his expertise in strategic counseling to boards regarding mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and affiliations. Kevin A. Schulman is professor of medicine and vice chair for business affairs in the Department of Medicine in the Duke University School of Medicine. He also serves as director of the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and as professor of business administration, director of the Health Sector Management Program, and director of the Center for the Study of Health Management in The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Dr. Schulman’s research centers on three broad themes: economic evaluation in clinical trials; health services research, including access to care and the impact of managed care on clinical practice; and clinical decisionmaking, especially the assessment of decisionmaking for patients with life-threatening diseases. Dr. Schulman has written extensively on his research topics, and his work has been widely published in peer-reviewed publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He is currently a member of editorial and advisory boards of seven journals, including the American Journal of Medicine, the American Heart Journal, Health Services Research, and Value in Health. Dr. Schulman also holds appointments in the Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy and the Durham VA Medical Center Health Services Research Unit.
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