Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D.

Uwe E. Reinhardt, a native of Germany, has taught at Princeton University since 1968, rising through the ranks from assistant professor of economics to his current positions. He has taught courses in both micro- and macro-economic theory and policy, accounting for commercial, private non-profit and governmental enterprises, financial management for commercial and non-profit enterprises, and health economics and policy.

Although Professor Reinhardt research interests since that time have centered mainly on economics and policy, his work has also included topics in corporation finance, including benefit-cost analyses of the Lockheed L-1011 Tri Star and the Space Shuttle.

n 1978, Professor Reinhardt was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, on whose Governing Council he served from 1979-1982. At the Institute, he has served on a number of study panels, among them the Committee on the Implications of For-Profit Medicine. He currently serves on the Institute's Committee on Technical Innovation in Medicine and on the Committee on the Implications of a Physicians Surplus and the Committee on the U.S. Physician Supply. In 1996, he was appointed to the Board of Health Care services of the Institute.

During 1987-90, Professor Reinhardt was a member of the National Leadership Commission on Health Care, a private sector initiative established to develop options for health-care reform and he continues to serve on that body's successor, the National Leadership Coalition on Health Care, co-chaired by former Presidents Carter and Ford. He is past president of the Association of Health Services Research on whose board he still serves. He is also past president of the Foundation for Health Services Research. From 1978-1993, he served on the Board of the Trustees of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association were he was a member of its Mortgage, Board, and Finance Committees during the same period. Currently, he serves as a trustee of the Duke University Health System, of which the Duke Medical Center is a part; the Macalister Holdings, Inc. of TIAA-CREF; the Hambrecht and Quist Healthcare Investors and Life Sciences Investors Funds. He is also a board member of the National Institute for Health Care Management and chairman of the Coordinating Committee of the International Program in Health Policy of the Commonwealth Fund. Professor Reinhradt is also a member of the Council on the Economic Impact of Health Reform, a privately funded group of health experts established to track the economic impact of the current revolution in health care delivery and cost control.

Professor Reinhardt has served on a number of government committees and commissions, among them the National Council on Health care technology of the then U.S. Department of Health and Welfare (1979-82) and the Special Medical Advisory Group of the then Veterans Administration (1981-85). From 1986-1995, he served three consecutive three-year terms as a Commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC), established in 1986 by the Congress to advise it on issues related to the payment of physicians. Professor Reinhardt has been a consultant to various legislators in the United States Congress and the World Bank. He was or is 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, the Milbank Quarterly, and Health Affairs.