Uwe Reinhardt

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 position.  He has taught courses in both micro and macro-economic theory, policy, accounting for commercial, private non-profit and governmental enterprises, financial management for commercial and non-profit enterprises, and health economics and policy.

Professor Reinhardt received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1964, when he was also awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal as Most Distinguished Graduate of his graduating class. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1970.  His doctoral dissertation was entitled Physician Productivity and the Demand for Health Manpower. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, and the College of Optometry of the State University of New York. In 1998, the Columbia University School of Nursing honored him with the Second Century Award for Excellence in Health Care.

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 (1979-1982) and the Special Advisory Group of the then Veterans Administration (1981-1985). From 1986 to 1995 he served three consecutive terms as Commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission (PRCC), established in 1986 by the Congress to advise it on issues related to the payment of physicians.

In 1978, Professor Reinhardt was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, on whose Governing Council he served from 1979 to 1982. At the institute, he has served on a number of study panels, among them the Committee on the Implications of For-Profit Medicine, a study panel on Dental Care in the United States, a panel on the Nursing Shortage, the Institute's Committee on Technical Innovation in Medicine and the Committee on the Implications of a Physician Surplus. He currently serves on the Institute's Board on Health Care Services, which guides the Institute's research in health-services research. He is the past president and a Distinguished Fellow of the Association of Health Services Research on whose Board he served for over a decade.

During 1987-1990, Professor Reinhardt was a member of the National Leadership Commission on Health Care, a private sector initiative established to develop options for healthcare 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.

Professor Reinhardt currently is a member of the Council on the Economic Impact of Heath Reform, a privately funded group of health experts established to track the economic impact of the current revolution in heath-care delivery and cost control. He is also on the Board of Advisors of the National Institute of Health-Care Management; a Washington-based think tank devoted to issues on managed care.  In 1997, he joined the Pew Health Professions Commission, which explores the implication of heath-systems change on the health workforce.  Also in 1997, he was appointed to the External Advisory Panel for Heath, Nutrition and Population of The World Bank, an expert panel that advises The World Bank on its far-flung activities in these health care issues. Since 1997 he has served on the Board of Trustees of the Duke University Health System. Since that time, he has also chaired the Coordinating Committee of the Commonwealth Fund's International Program in Health Policy. In 1998, he was appointed as Commissioner of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

Professor Reinhardt was or is a member of numerous editorial boards, among them the Journal of Health Economics, the Milbank Memorial Bank Quarterly, Health Affairs, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Journal of the American Medical Association.