Uwe Reinhardt

Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D., is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics at Princeton University where he teaches courses in microeconomic and macroeconomic theory and policy; accounting for commercial, private not-for-profit and government enterprises; financial management for commercial and not-for-profit enterprises; and health economics and policy.

A leading health policy expert, Professor Reinhardt has served on a number of government commissions and advisory boards, among them the congressional Physician Payment Review Commission, the National Council on Health Care Technology of the DHEW (now DHHS), the Special National Advisory Board of the VA, the National Advisory Board of the AHRQ, DHHS, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, and the World Bank External Advisory Panel for Health, Nutrition and Population.

Professor Reinhardt is also a trustee of Duke University and the Duke University Health System, and a trustee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is the president of the International Health Economics Association, and is 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.

In October 2006 Professor Reinhardt was appointed by Governor John Corzine of New Jersey to chair the health reform commission for the state. Professor Reinhardt has been or is a member of numerous editorial boards, among them the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, The Journal of Health Economics, and the Milbank Memorial Quarterly.

Most Requested Topics:

• The New Economics of Healthcare: The Danger and Opportunities We Face: Healthcare speaker Uwe Reinhardt examines how ominous trends and the lack of a cost-effective consciousness have become the hallmarks of our health system. He then presents ideas on how we might go about achieving greater cost-effectiveness, especially in the area of drug therapy.
• Healthcare in the New Millenium: Challenges and Opportunities
• Providing Access to Health Care and Controlling Its Costs
• What Percentage of Its GNP Should a Nation Spend on Health Care?
• The West German Health Care System
• Does Spending on Health Care Impair the International Competitiveness of American Business?
• The French Are To Blame For America’s Banking Crisis: Reinhardt addresses the genesis of our banking crisis and what has happened to our economy. This version is meant to be a bit funny, and is well suited as a light lunch or dinner talk, but it can also be given in a more serious tone.