 Judith R. Lave, Ph.D.
Department Chairperson and
Director MHA Program and JD/MPH Program
Director PA Medicaid Policy Center Position:
Department Chairperson and Director MHA Program and JD/MPH Program
Director,
Pennsylvania Medicaid
Policy Center
Co-Director,
Center for Research on Health Care
Professor, Business Administration
Professor, Economics
Professor, Psychiatry
Research Interests:
Health care financing, costs of graduate medical education, health insurance, health care for children, economics of mental health, cost of illness.
Biosketch:
Dr. Lave is Professor of Health Economics, Chair Department of Health Policy
and Management, Director of the Health Administration Program and co-director
of the Center for Research on Health Care at the University of Pittsburgh.
Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh, she was the Director of the
Office of Research at the Health Care Financing Administration, now CMS. She
received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. She was elected to
the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science and the
National Academy for Social Insurance and is a distinguished fellow of
AcademyHealth., She is on the Technical Advisory Group for the Pennsylvania
Health Care Cost Containment Council and on the Board of Health Services for
the Institute of Medicine. She was a commissioner on the Medicare Payment
Advisory Commission and its predecessor commission - the Prospective Payment
Assessment Commission. She is the author of more than 140 scientific
publications.
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