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 was “Malpractice Reform in Policy Perspective" for the June 2007 Milbank Quarterly.  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.

Ted Frank is a resident fellow at AEI and director of the AEI Liability Project. Mr. Frank manages the Institute’s research in products liability, medical malpractice, class actions, civil procedure, corporate regulation, antitrust and patent litigation, lifestyle litigation, and judicial selection. Before joining AEI, Mr. Frank was a litigator from 1995–2005. His litigation experience includes defending the use of punch card ballots in the California gubernatorial recall election against an ACLU constitutional challenge; Vioxx and automobile products liability cases; class action defense; and antitrust and patent cases. He has also argued successfully in front of the Ninth Circuit multiple times. Mr. Frank has written for law reviews, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and National Review Online, and has appeared on National Public Radio, BBC, C-SPAN, and Fox News. Mr. Frank also clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a regular contributor to the liability reform blogs PointOfLaw.com and Overlawyered.com.

H. E. Frech III is professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University and at the University of Chicago and an economist in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Mr. Frech has published more than a hundred articles and books on health care and regulation. His research has included health insurance and managed care, optimal scale of physician practices and hospitals, physician and hospital pricing, competition, monopoly and antitrust policy, ownership, efficiency and wages in nursing homes, the production of health, distance traveled to hospitals, supplemental insurance in Medicare, malpractice reform, and private health insurance in Australia. Mr. Frech has consulted on the economics of health care for private and public organizations, and has testified in U.S. federal and state courts, state legislatures, state and federal regulatory bodies, and Congress.

David Hyman, is a professor of law and medicine at the University of Illinois. He is the Galowich-Huizenga Faculty Scholar and director of the Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy. He teaches or has taught health-care regulation, civil procedure, insurance law, law and economics, professional responsibility, and tax policy. His research and writing focus on the regulation and financing of health care. While serving as special counsel to the Federal Trade Commission, Mr. Hyman was the principal author and project leader for the first joint report ever issued by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, “Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition.” Mr. Hyman is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas and George Washington University Schools of Law, and a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law.

Meredith Kilgore is an associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Public Health and an associate scholar at the university’s Lister Hill Center for Health Policy. He has extensive experience in critical-care nursing and in the conduct of health services research and the evaluation of health-care technology. Mr. Kilgore teaches clinical decision-making and cost-effectiveness analysis in the School of Public Health and is director of the outcomes research training program in health-care organization and policy. His current research projects include evaluating the effects of tort law on medical malpractice premiums, employer health insurance premiums, and defensive medicine; the effects of certificate of need regulation on vascular surgery outcomes; estimating the burden of disease associated with osteoporosis and fractures; and various topics in health-care technology assessment. He has published articles in a number of leading health journals

Jonathan Klick is an adjunct scholar for AEI's Liability Project. He is also the Jeffrey A. Stoops 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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