Robert Isaac Field

Robert I. Field chairs the Department of Health Policy and Public Health at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. His research and publications cover many areas of health care regulation, including managed care, pharmaceutical regulation, genetic screening, and health system structure. He is also a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the adjunct faculty of the Wharton School.

Previously, he served as director of planning and physician practice acquisitions for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, as a health care attorney for a major Philadelphia law firm, and as a member of the research staff of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Field received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, law degree from Columbia Law School, master's in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and doctorate in psychology from Boston University.[1]

He has worked in private law firms, an academic medical center, and policy research centers, including the Institute of Medicine. His consulting work includes the Japanese Ministry of Health.

In addition to chairing USP's Department of Health Policy and Public Health and directing the Health Policy Program, Field is a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute and Lecturer in Health Care Systems at the Wharton School.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Health Care Regulation - About the Author Archived December 22, 2010, at WebCite
  2. ↑ Health Policy | USP > Scholars @ USP > Robert Field, JD, MPH, PhD Archived May 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
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