February 4, 2009
Warren Greenberg, PhD, is Professor of Health Economics at the George Washington University, Department of Health Policy. Between 1998-2002 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality where his research focused on examining the quality of care in hospital mergers. He also explored the determinants of vertical integration in health care and structural measures of competition in hospital markets.
Dr. Greenberg received a B.A. in economics from Temple University, an M.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in economics from Bryn Mawr College. From 1971 until 1979, he was a staff economist with the Federal Trade Commission. He was lead economist on many of the commission's activities in the health care industry and was responsible for economic analysis of antitrust litigation.
Dr. Greenberg is the author of numerous articles on industrial organization economics and health care which have been published in the Journal of Law and Economics, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Health Services Research, International Journal of Health Finance and Economics, and other leading journals. He has edited or written ten books or monographs, including Competition in the Health Care Sector: Past, Present and Future; Competition in the Health Care Sector: Ten Years Later; Response to AIDS: Case Studies of HMOs, Insurers and Employers; and Competition, Regulation and Rationing in Health Care. His latest book, The Health Care Marketplace, was published in September, 1998.
Dr. Greenberg has served on review panels for the Health Care Financing Administration, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He is a referee for many scholarly journals and is a member of the American Economic Association, the International Health Economics Association, and the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy.
Dr. Greenberg founded and served as president of the Washington Institute for Israel Health Policy Research from1993 to 2008. The Washington Institute sent American students to study and work in health care in the Ministry of Health, the Health insurance industry in Israel, the universities, and health policy think tanks in Israel. The Washington Institute also hosted more than thirty Israeli health care experts who provided seminars in the Washington area as well as the Embassy of Israel. Dr. Greenberg was also a consultant on the formation of the new national health insurance law in Israel in 1993.
To book a speaking engagement with Dr. Warren Greenberg please contact him:
Phone: 202-994-6905
Email: wggw@gwu.edu