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EDUCATION
Cornell University, Economics, M.A. Dec 2014, Ph.D. Jan 2018. |
Colgate University, Economics and Mathematics B.A. May 2007. |
FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION
Primary Field: Health |
Secondary Research Fields: Industrial Organization |
Secondary Teaching Fields: Public Economics, Econometrics |
WORK HISTORY
Visiting Assistant Professor Colgate University, Hamilton, NY |
Fall 2017-present |
Teaching Assistant (see teaching experience below) Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
Fall 2011-Spring 2017 |
Research Assistant: Professor Samuel Kleiner Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
Fall 2012-Spring 2016 |
Research Assistant Professor Bruce Wydick. University of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA |
Sep 2009 - Dec 2010 |
Consultant: Analytics & Measurement Team MarketBridge Consulting, San Francisco, CA. |
July 2007-Aug 2011 |
Research Assistant Professor Kevin Rask. Colgate University. Hamilton, NY |
Summer 2005, 2006 |
ACADEMIC PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
'Antitrust and Accountable Care Organizations: Observations for the Physician Market.' Medical Care Research and Review, January 2016, 1077558715627554. (with Samuel A. Kleiner and William D. White) | |
"Environmental and health impacts from the introduction of improved wood stoves: evidence from a field experiment in Guatemala." Environment, Development and Sustainability 13, no. 4 (2011): 657-676. (with Kent Moriarty, and Bruce Wydick) |
WORKING PAPERS
Efficiency Implications of Physician Integration: Behavioral vs Administrative (view current working paper) | |
Physician Practice and MCO Negotiation: The Impact of Time Sensitive Supply and Demand. Presented as a poster at ASHEcon 2018. (view current working paper). | |
The Impact of ACO Formation on Physician Referrals (with Samuel Kleiner). Funded by a grant from Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences. Presented as a poster at ASHEcon 2019. (view current working paper). | |
Insurer Market Structure as a Determinate of Physician Practice Size (view current working paper) | |
Heterogeneous Impacts from the Release of Inpatient Care Reports in Texas (view current working paper) | |
Identifying and Correcting Bias Driven by Market Boundaries in Willingness-to-Pay Estimates (view current working paper) |
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Who does what? An Analysis of the Relationship Between Physicians' Specialties and Procedures (preview) |
Did Medicare Accountable Care Organizations Increase Integration? A Look at Patient Sharing Patterns |
PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
ASHEcon Annual Meeting | June 2019 |
Discussant for "Does Regression to the Mean Explain the Decline in Readmissions Observed at Hospitals Penalized for Excess Readmissions?" Sushant Joshi with Teryl Nuckols; Jose Escarce; Peter Huckfeldt; Ioana Popescu; Neeraj Sood | |
Discussant for "Occupational Licensing and Patient Outcomes: Do qualified social workers improve post-acute care discharge outcomes?" John Bowblis with Amy Restorick Roberts and Austin Smith | |
Poster for "The Impact of ACO Formation on Physician Referrals" (with Samuel Kleiner) (view poster) | |
30th Annual Conference on Teaching Economics | Feb 2019 |
Presented "Student Created Podcasts as a Learning Tool" | |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Nov 2018 |
Invited speaker: Economics Department Seminar | |
ASHEcon Biannual Meeting | June 2018 |
Presented "Efficiency Implications of Physician Integration: Behavioral vs Administrative" in the panel "Understanding Physician Admitting and Referral Patterns" led by Ian McCarthy. | |
Discussant for "How Did Affordable Care Act Exchanges Affect Individuals' Willingness to Quit Their Jobs?" Paul Shafer with Jason Rotter and Alex Gertner. | |
Poster for "Physician Practice and MCO Negotiation: The Impact of Time Sensitive Supply and Demand" | |
Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management Workshop | Nov 2016 |
Colgate University-Hamilton College Economics Seminar Series | Oct 2016 |
GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
First-Year Writing Seminar Grant Recipient • Cornell's John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines |
Fall 2016 |
Cornell University Institute of Social Sciences, Small Grant Recipient ($5,600) • The Impact of ACO Formation on Physician Referrals (w/Samuel Kleiner) |
Fall 2015 |
The Howard & Abby Milstein Graduate Outstanding Teaching Assistantship Award | Dec 2012 |
MarketBridge Consulting, Innovator of the Year | 2008 & 2009 |
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Workshop on Leading Intergroup Dialogue • Colgate University Intergroup Dialogue Council |
May 2019 |
Workshop on Healing Justice by Loretta Pyles, Ph.D •Colgate Workshop Series on The Heart of Higher Education |
Fall 2018 |
Cornell University Center for Teaching Excellence •Graduate Research and Teaching Fellow |
Aug 2015-May 2016 |
Course: The Practice of Teaching in Higher Education | Fall 2015 |
Course: Teaching College Writing | Summer 2016 |
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator Lead incoming first-years in a workshop discussing identities, and dialogue |
August 2019 |
Referee: Journal of Health Economics Reviewed article on the impact of physician retirement. |
Summer 2019 |
Honors Thesis Advisor "The Distributional Effects of Lowering the Social Security Retirement Age" |
Fall 2019 |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Colgate University | |
Introductory Economics | Fall 2019 |
Health Economics | Fall 2019 |
Public Economics | Fall 2017, 2018, Spring 2018, 2019 |
Econometrics | Fall 2017, 2018, Spring & Fall 2019 |
Cornell University | |
First-year Writing Seminar on The US Healthcare System | Fall 2016 |
Teaching Assistant (Cornell University) | |
Intermediate Microeconomics | Fall 2015, Spring 2016 |
Intermediate Macroeconomics | Spring 2015 |
Introductory Macroeconomics | Fall 2012 |
Introductory Microeconomics | Spring 2012 |
Introductory Microeconomics - Distance Learning | Summer 2012, 2013,2016, Winter 2012, 2013 |
Workshop Presenter - Center for Teaching Excellence | |
Led three workshops (listed below) as part of my CTE graduate teaching fellowship which were attended by interested graduate students | |
• Electronic Portfolios as a Tool to Enhance Learning and Assessment | Spring 2016 |
• Holding Effective Office Hours | Fall 2015 |
• Effectively Dealing with Challenging Classroom Situations | Fall 2015 |
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Economic Association |
American Society of Health Economists |
Omicron Delta Epsilon - The International Economics Honor Society |
OTHER |
Citizenship: United States |
Programming: |
Stata, SAS, MATLAB, VBA, SQL, Java |
Web basics: HTML, PHP, CSS, Javascript |