Dana Goldman holds the RAND Chair in Health Economics and is the Founding Director
of the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND. He is also an Adjunct Professor of
Health Services and Radiology at UCLA. His research interests combine applied
microeconomics and medical issues, with a special interest in the role that medical
technology and health insurance play in determining health-related outcomes. His work has
been published in leading medical, economic, statistics, and health policy journals with
funding from both the public and private sectors, including the National Institutes of
Health, National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, National Science
Foundation, Amgen, Merck, Genentech, California Healthcare Foundation, Smith Richardson
Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality. Most recently, he is the director of the RAND Roybal Center for
Health Policy Simulation designed to provide better estimates of the impact of health
policy changes. Dr. Goldman serves on several editorial boards including Health Affairs
and the American Journal of Managed Care. He was the recipient of the National Institute
for Health Care Management Research Foundation award for excellence in health policy, and
the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award that recognizes the outstanding contributions
of a young scholar to the field of health services research. He is also a research
associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Goldman received his B.A
from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
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