Thomas E. Getzen

Thomas E. Getzen, Ph.D., 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 (www.healtheconomics.org). He has also served as visiting professor at the University of Toronto, 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; 4th ed., 2010) is used in graduate and undergraduate programs throughout the world. His research focuses on the macroeconomics of health, finance, forecasting medical expenditures and physician supply, price indexes, public health economics, and related issues. He recently completed a model of long-run medical cost trends for use by the Society of Actuaries, building on the work of economists at the CMS and CBO. Currently Professor Getzen is conducting an organizational study of tissue banking focused on organizational dynamics, pricing and the creation of medical value.