KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Amitabh Chandra

Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

A Harvard professor, teacher, TEDMED speaker, economist,  and entrepreneur, Amitabh Chandra bridges the worlds of innovation, regulation, disparities, and health-policy with sweeping knowledge of state and Federal policy, bio-pharma innovation, and FDA regulation. Congress, investors, employers, private companies and journalists turn to him for a ‘tell it like it is’ approach to improving healthcare and separating actual opportunities from purely aspirational ones.

Amitabh Chandra'S SPEAKING FEE $25K - $40K

Professor Chandra studies innovation, productivity, pricing and technology in health care, medical malpractice, and disparities in health care. His research has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Health Affairs. Professor Chandra has testified before the US Senate and the US Commission on Civil Rights, and has served as special commissioner on the Massachusetts Special Commission on Provider Price Reform. He is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) Panel of Health Advisors, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Social Insurance. He is the recipient of the Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, the Eugene Garfield Award for Economic Impact on Medical Research, the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) research award, and the American Society of Health Economists’ ASHE Medal.

His interests sit at the intersection of innovation and regulation in healthcare and he has a keen interest in opportunities and challenges that transcend current policy debates and that will need to be tackled by a raft of public and private efforts— like improving quality, reducing the cost of care through competition, being able to encourage innovation— especially in the area of delivery, and treatments for Alzheimer’s and oncology, and smarter ways to pay for innovation.

Featured Videos

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Amitabh Chandra on The Right Way to Spend on Healthcare

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Amitabh Chandra on Evidence-Based Evaluations in Healthcare

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Amitabh Chandra on Evidence-Based Evaluations in Healthcare

Amitabh Chandra on The Right Way to Spend on Healthcare

Amitabh Chandra on Evidence-Based Evaluations in Healthcare