Speaker biographies

Randall Bovbjerg is a principal research associate in the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute. His first health policy publication was a 1975 Duke Law Journal article on HMOs and malpractice, and his most recent article on malpractice insurance crisis and reform was published in Clinics in Perinatology. Mr. Bovbjerg also drafted the sixth chapter of the Institute of Medicine’s 2000 book, To Err Is Human. He has studied prevention of medical injury, tort reform, and non-judicial alternatives, along with many other topics in health policy. He served on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations’ taskforce on alternatives to tort litigation and on the D.C. Health Care Reform Commission. Mr. Bovbjerg has taught at Duke and Johns Hopkins Universities.

John E. Calfee is a resident scholar at AEI. From 1980 to 1986, he served in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Calfee has taught marketing and consumer behavior in the business schools of the University of Maryland–College Park and Boston University, and was a visiting senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Calfee’s research has focused on regulation (especially FDA regulation), health care, advertising and information, tort liability, and other related areas. He is the author of Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution (AEI Press, 2000) and Fear of Persuasion: A New Perspective on Advertising and Regulation (AEI Press, 1997).

David Dranove is the Walter McNerny Distinguished Professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, which maintains one of the country’s leading business and health-care management programs. Dr. Dranove maintains a high public profile as a leading health economist and is influential in the application of economics to solve complex legal and health-care policy problems. Dr. Dranove has advised top officials at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission on health-care issues and has published several articles on health-care reform. His research and teaching focus on problems in industrial organization and business strategy with an emphasis on the health-care industry. He has published over seventy research papers, monographs, and book chapters on health economics and pharmacoeconomics.

Ted Frank is a resident fellow at AEI and director of the AEI Liability Project, managing the institute’s research about liability reform proposals, tort law, class action lawsuits and civil procedure, and other related issues. Before joining AEI, Mr. Frank worked at law firms in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook. His litigation work included the Vioxx case, automobile product liability cases, class action defense, and antitrust and patent cases.

Jonathan Klick is an adjunct scholar for AEI’s Liability Project. He is also an assistant professor of law and a courtesy professor of economics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Mr. Klick’s research focuses on statistical analyses of the effects of legal changes on individual behavior. He has published academic articles in The Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, and The Journal of Legal Studies, as well as in numerous medical journals and law reviews. He is co-author, with AEI resident scholar Dr. Sally Satel, of The Health Disparities Myth: Diagnosing the Treatment Gap (AEI Press, 2006).

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