Alan Garber
is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, where he is also Professor of Economics, Professor of Health Research and Policy, and Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Business (courtesy); he is also the director of both Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at the School of Medicine. He is a Staff Physician at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Associate Director of the Center for Health Care Evaluation at the VA, and Research Associate and Director, Health Care Program, of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (NBER). He serves as Chair of the Medical and Surgical Procedures Panel of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services). He was Health Services Research and Development Senior Research Associate of the Department of Veterans Affairs and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Young Investigator Award of the Association for Health Services Research and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholarship in General Internal Medicine. He has served as a consultant to the Institute of Medicine, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the Clinical Efficacy Assessment Project of the American College of Physicians, and is a member of the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Medical Advisory Panel, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. His research is directed toward methods for improving health care delivery and financing, particularly for the elderly, in settings of limited resources. He has developed methods for determining the cost-effectiveness of health interventions, and he studies ways to structure financial and organizational incentives to ensure that cost-effective care is delivered. In addition, his research explores how clinical practice patterns and health care market characteristics influence health expenditures and health outcomes in the United States and in other countries. He has a longstanding interest in the evaluation of medical evidence for coverage policy and health policy.
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