October 15, 2003

Speaker Biographies

David C. Grabowski is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the Department of Health Care Organization and Policy in the School of Public Health, where he teaches courses in health economics and health policy. He is also an associate scholar in the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy and a scientist in the UAB Center for Aging, the UAB Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education, and the UAB Injury Control Research Center. He is on the editorial board of the journal Medical Care Research and Review. His research focuses on the economics of aging and healthcare regulation with interests in the areas of long-term care and motor vehicle safety.

Robert B. Helms is a resident scholar and the director of health policy studies at AEI. He has written and lectured extensively on health policy, health economics, and pharmaceutical economic issues. Mr. Helms currently participates in the Consensus Group, an informal task force that is developing market-oriented health reform concepts. From 1981 to 1989, he served as the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation and deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Helms is the editor of several AEI publications on health policy: Medicare in the Twenty-first Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform; American Health Policy: Critical Issues for Reform; Health Policy Reform: Competition and Controls; Health Care Policy and Politics: Lessons from Four Countries; and Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

William Scanlon is the director of healthcare issues at the U.S. General Accounting Office. He has been engaged in health services research since 1975. Before joining GAO in 1993, Mr. Scanlon was the codirector of the Center for Health Policy Studies and an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University and had been a principal research associate in health policy at the Urban Institute. His research has focused in particular on the Medicare and Medicaid programs, especially provider payment policies, and the provision and financing of long-term care services. Mr. Scanlon has published extensively and has served as frequent consultant to federal agencies, state Medicaid programs, and private foundations.

William B. Vogt is an assistant professor of economics and public policy at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. He is presently on leave at the Federal Trade Commission pursuing research on several healthcare anti-trust issues. Mr. Vogt’s publications have appeared primarily in the health economics and industrial organization literatures, and his current research and teaching interest also lie in these fields.

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