Uwe Reinhardt, PhD
The Undisputed Health Care Expert!

Uwe E. Reinhardt is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics, Princeton University, USA, where he teaches health economics, comparative health systems, general micro-economics and financial management. The bulk of his research has been focused on health economics and policy, both in the U.S. and abroad.

Recognized as one of the leading U.S. authorities on health care economics and health policy, Reinhardt serves, or has served, on a number of government commissions and advisory boards, among them the Physician Payment Review Commission, a commission established by the U.S. Congress to advise it on issues related to physician payment; the National Council on Health Care Technology of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)); the Special Advisory Board of the VA; the National Advisory Board of the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research, DHHS.

He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and past president of the Association of Health Services Researchers (now Academy Health), and of the International Health Economics Association. He has served on a number of government commissions, including the Physician Payment review Commission (now part of Medicare Payment Advisory Commission or Medpac). He also is a Commissioner of the Kaiser Family Foundation Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. He has been a trustee of Duke University and also of the Duke University Health System, and has served or still serves as director of several health-related corporations.

He is a trustee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and serves on the Medicare Advisory Panel of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid of the Department of Health and Human Services that advises the Chief Actuary of CMS to produce 75-year forecast of Medicare spending. He also serves on the board of the National Institute of Health Care Management and is chairman of the coordinating committee of the Commonwealth Fund’s International Program in Health Policy. He is a senior associate of the Judge Institute for Management of Cambridge University, UK. He served on the World Bank External Advisory Panel for Health, Population and Nutrition. In October 2006 Reinhardt was appointed by Governor John Corzine of New Jersey to chair the health reform commission for the state.

Reinhardt is or was a member of numerous editorial boards, among them the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, and the Milbank Memorial Quarterly.

His academic honors include the Governor’s Gold Medal of the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, several honorary doctorates, the Federal Merit Cross bestowed by Germany’s President and the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, also known as the Baxter Prize.