School of Pharmacy

Dana P. Goldman, PhD

Biography

Dana Goldman is a Professor and the Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Until Fall 2009, he held RAND's Distinguished Chair in Health Economics and directed RAND's program in Economics, Finance, and Organization. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Health Services and Radiology at UCLA.

Dr. Goldman is a nationally-recognized health economist influential in both academic and policy circles. He is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters, including articles in some of the most prestigious medical, economic, health policy, and statistics journals. He is a health policy advisor to the Congressional Budget Office, and is a frequent speaker on health care issues.

Dr. Goldman serves on several editorial boards including Health Affairs and the American Journal of Managed Care. He is also a founding editor of the Forum for Health Economics and Policy, an online journal devoted to health economics and health policy. Dr. Goldman's work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Business Week, U.S. News and World Report, The Economist, NBC Nightly News, CNN, National Public Radio, and other media. Dr. Goldman was the 2009 recipient of the Eugene Garfield Economic Impact Prize, recognizing outstanding research demonstrating how medical research impacts the economy. He was awarded the National Institute for Health Care Management Research Foundation award for excellence in health policy, and the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award recognizing the contributions of a young scholar to the field of health services
research.

Dr. Goldman also has served on several panels for the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, including a current panel on the fiscal future of the United States. Dr. Goldman's research sponsors include the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, Amgen, Merck, Genentech, Pfizer, UnitedHealth, Pacificare, California Healthcare Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Dr. Goldman is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation's leading economic research organization. He is the director of the RAND/UCLA Health Services Research Postdoctoral Training Program. He is also a founder and managing director of Precision
Health Economics, a consulting firm to the health care industry.

Dr. Goldman received his B.A. summa cum laude from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

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National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute

National Science Foundation

Selected Projects/Publications

The link between public and private insurance and HIV-related mortality (with Neeraj Sood and Jayanta Bhattacharya), Journal of Health Economics (2003)

Forecasting the Nursing Home Population (with Darius Noshir Lakdawalla, Jay Bhattacharya, Michael Hurd, Geoffrey Joyce, and Constantijn Panis), Medical Care (2003)

Using Hospital Tumor Registries to Identify Research Subjects (with Michael Schoenbaum, Meredith L. Kilgore, Beverly A. Weidmer, Sandra H. Berry, Jose J. Escarce, Joy H. Lewis, and Nikhil Wagle), Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology (2006)

Sampling Patients Within and Across Health Care Providers: Multi-Stage Non-Nested Samples in Health Services Research (with John L. Adams, Matthias Schonlau, Jose J. Escarce, Meredith Kilgore, and Schoenbaum Schoenbaum), Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology (2006)

Estimating Probit Models with Self-Selected Treatments (with Jay Bhattacharya and Daniel McCaffrey), Statistics in Medicine (2006)

The Costs of A Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (with Geoffrey F. Joyce and Jesse Dylan Malkin), Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy (2000)

Employer Drug Benefit Plans and Spending on Prescription Drugs (with Geoffrey F. Joyce, Jose J. Escarce, and Matthew D. Solomon), Journal of the American Medical Association (2002)

The Participation of Patients 65 Years of Age or Older in Cancer Clinical Trials (with Joy H. Lewis, Meredith L. Kilgore, Edward L. Trimble, Richard Kaplan, Michael J. Montello, Michael G. Housman, and Jose J. Escarce), Journal of Clinical Oncology (2003)

High Out-Of-Pocket Health Care Spending By The Elderly (with Julie M. Zissimopoulos), Health Affairs (2003)

Employee Responses to Health Insurance Premium Increases (with Arleen A. Leibowitz and David A. Robalino), The American Journal of Managed Care (2004)

Are The Young Becoming More Disabled? (with Darius Lakdawalla and Jayanta Bhattacharya), Health Affairs (2004)

Increased Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services: What Are the Causes? (with Melinda J. Beeuwkes Buntin, Jose J. Escarce´, Hongjun Kan, Miriam J. Laugesen, and Paul Shekelle), Inquiry 41 (2004)

The Changing Face of Pharmacy Benefit Design (with Jesse D. Malkin and Geoffrey Joyce), Health Affairs (2004)

Disability Forecasts and Future Medicare Costs (with Jay Bhattacharya , David Cutler, Michael Hurd, Geoff Joyce, Darius Lakdawalla, Constantijn Panis, and Baoping Shang), Frontiers in Health Policy Research (2004)

The Health And Cost Consequences Of Obesity Among The Future Elderly (with Darius Noshir Lakdawalla and Baoping Shang), Health Affairs (2005)

Legal Status And Health Insurance Among Immigrants (with James P. Smith and Neeraj Sood), Health Affairs (2005)

Varying Pharmacy Benefits With Clinical Status: The Case of Cholesterol-lowering Therapy (with Geoffrey F. Joyce and Karaca-Mandic Karaca-Mandic), The American Journal of Managed Care (2006)

The Value of Elderly Disease Prevention(with David M. Cutler, Baoping Shang, and Geoffrey F. Joyce), Forum for Health Economics & Policy (2006)

Rising Medicare Costs: Are We In Crisis? (with Neeraj Sood), Health Affairs (2006)

Pharmacy Benefits and the Use of Drugs by the Chronically Ill (with Geoffrey F. Joyce, Jose J. Escarce, Jennifer E. Pace, Matthew D. Solomon, Marianne Laouri, Pamela B. Landsman, and Steven M. Teutsch), Journal of the American Medical Association (2006)

Benefit Design And Specialty Drug Use (with Geoffrey F. Joyce, Grant Lawless, William H. Crown, and Vincent Willey), Health Affairs (2006)

Immigrants And The Cost Of Medical Care (with James P. Smith and Neeraj Sood), Health Affairs (2006)

The Promise of Health Care Cost Containment (with Alan Garber and Anupam B. Jena), Health Affairs (2007)

Prescription Drug Cost Sharing (with Geoffrey F. Joyce and Yuhui Zheng), Journal of the American Medical Association (2007)

Drug Licenses: A New Model for Pharmaceutical Pricing (with Anupam B. Jena, Tomas Philipson, and Eric Sun), Health Affairs (2008)

Managed Care as a Public Cost-Containment Mechanism, The RAND Journal of Economics (1995)

The Effects of Benefit Design and Managed Care on Health Care Costs (with Susan D. Hosek, Lloyd S. Dixon, and Elizabeth M. Sloss), Journal of Health Economics (1995)

Cost-Containment and Adverse Selection in Medicaid HMOs (with Arleen Leibowitz and Joan L. Buchanan), Journal of the American Statistical Association (1998)

Queuing for Surgery: Is the U.S. or Canada Worse Off? (with Barton H. Hamilton and Vivian Ho), The Review of Economics and Statistics (2000)

Effect of Insurance on Mortality in an HIV-Positive Population in Care (with Jayanta Bhattacharya, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Naihua Duan, Arleen A. Leibowitz, Geoffrey F. Joyce, and Sally C. Morton), Journal of the American Statistical Association (2001)

Can Patient Self-Management Help Explain the SES Health Gradient? (with James P. Smith), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2002)

Market Evidence of Misperceived Prices and Mistaken Mortality Risks (with Neeraj Sood and Jayanta Bhattacharya), NBER (2003)

The Link between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-Related Mortality (with Jayanta Bhattacharya and Neeraj Sood), Journal of Health Economics (2003)

Wage and Benefit Changes in Response to Rising Health Insurance (with Neeraj Sood and Arleen Leibowitz), Forum for Health Economics & Policy (2005)

The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases (with Neeraj Sood and Arleen Leibowitz), Economics Letters (2005)

Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies (with James P. Smith), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (2005)

A Theory of Health Disparities and Medical Technology (with Darius Lakdawalla), Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy (2005)

HIV Treatment and Risky Sexual Behavior (with Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2005)

Price regulation in secondary insurance markets (with Neeraj Sood and Jay Bhattacharya ), Journal of Risk and Insurance (2005)

HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior (with Neeraj Sood and Darius Lakdawalla), The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006)

Adverse Selection in Retiree Prescription Drug Plans (with Dana Goldman, Geoffrey Joyce, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Neeraj Sood), Forum for Health Economics & Policy, Forum: Frontiers in Health Policy Research (2006)

Adverse Selection in Retiree Prescription Drug Plans (with Geoffrey Joyce, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Neeraj Sood), Forum for Health Economics & Policy (2006)

Adverse Selection in Prescription Drug Plans, Forum for Health Economics & Policy (2007)

Pharmacy Benefit Caps And the Chronically Ill(with Geoffrey F. Joyce, Dana P. Goldman, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Yuhui Zheng), Health Affairs (2007)

Does Age or Life Expectancy Better Predict Health Care Expenditures? (with Baoping Shang), Health Economics (2007)

Want to Monitor Medicare's New Drug Benefit Program? Start by Sending a Check for $120,000, Economists' Voice (2008)

Impact of Specialty Drugs on the Use of Other Medical Services (with Geoffrey F. Joyce, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Grant D. Lawless), American Journal of Managed Care (2008)