Dana Goldman is a Professor and the Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public
Policy at the University of Southern California. Until Fall 2009, he held RAND's
Distinguished Chair in Health Economics and directed RAND's program in Economics,
Finance, and Organization. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Health Services and
Radiology at UCLA. Dr. Goldman is a nationally-recognized health economist influential in
both academic and policy circles. He is the author of over 100 articles and book
chapters, including articles in some of the most prestigious medical, economic, health
policy, and statistics journals. He is a health policy advisor to the Congressional
Budget Office, and is a frequent speaker on health care issues. He serves on several
editorial boards including Health Affairs and the American Journal of Managed Care. He is
also a founding editor of the Forum for Health Economics and Policy, an online journal
devoted to health economics and health policy. Dr. Goldman's work has been featured
in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Business Week, U.S. News and
World Report, The Economist, NBC Nightly News, CNN, National Public Radio, and other
media. Dr. Goldman was the 2009 recipient of the Eugene Garfield Economic Impact Prize,
recognizing outstanding research demonstrating how medical research impacts the economy.
He was awarded the National Institute for Health Care Management Research Foundation
award for excellence in health policy, and the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award
recognizing the contributions of a young scholar to the field of health services
research. He also has served on several panels for the National Academy of Sciences and
Institute of Medicine, including a current panel on the fiscal future of the United
States. Dr. Goldman's research sponsors include the National Institutes of Health,
National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation,
Amgen, Merck, Genentech, Pfizer, UnitedHealth, Pacificare, California Healthcare
Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and
the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Goldman is also a research associate
with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation's leading economic
research organization. He is the director of the RAND/UCLA Health Services Research
Postdoctoral Training Program. He is also a founder and managing director of Precision
Health Economics, a consulting firm to the health care industry. Dr. Goldman received his
B.A. summa cum laude from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford
University.
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