Lawrence Baker is an Associate Professor of Health Research and Policy and Chief of Health
Services Research at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Fellow of the Center for Health Policy
at Stanford University, and Research Associate in the Health Care and Productivity programs of the
National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Baker also holds a courtesy appointment in
the Stanford University Department of Economics. Before coming to Stanford, Dr. Baker was a Research
Economist at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and, briefly, a volunteer consultant to the White House
Task Force on Health Reform. He was awarded the Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator Award by the Academy for
Health Services Research and Health Policy in 2000. In 1997 and 1999 he received the National Institute
for Health Care Management’s research prize for his work on managed care. He serves on the editorial
board of Health Services Research. His main research interests are in the area of health economics,
particularly the effects of managed care on the structure and functioning of the health care system,
and he has written numerous journal articles and book chapters in this area. He is currently
conducting research on the measurement of managed care activity and marketplace change, and the
relationships between market characteristics and technology adoption and use, physician prices,
hospital financial performance, and health care expenditures. Other areas of research include the
effects of managed care on physician satisfaction, the economics of emergency health care delivery, the
effects of the internet on health care, and the dynamics of the physician labor market.
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