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Risk, Insurance, and Healthcare Management

Dr. Thomas Getzen

Thomas E. Getzen, PhD, is Professor of Risk, Insurance and Health Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University and Executive Director of iHEA, the International Health Economics Association, with 2400 academic and professional members in 72 countries . He has also served as visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. His textbook Health Economics: Fundamentals and Flow of Funds (Wiley; 2nd ed., 2004) is used in graduate and undergraduate programs throughout the world. Professor Getzen serves on a number of coprorate and non-profit boards. His research focuses on the macroeconomics of health, forecasting medical expenditures and physician supply, price indexes, public health economics, and related issues.