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Thomas E. Getzen is Professor of Risk, Insurance and Health Management  at Temple University and the founder and Executive Director of iHEA, the International Health Economics Association. After receiving an undergraduate degree from Yale University, he worked for the U.S.P.H.S. Centers for Disease Control Venereal Disease program in New York and Los Angeles, and then obtained an MHA degree in Medical Care Organization and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington. Dr. Getzen’s main research contributions have been in the areas of contracting, price indexes and forecasting of health care spending. His consulting work has included employee benefit negotiations, laboratory diagnostics, risk assessment, and capital financing for managed care. Dr. Getzen has been a visiting professor at the University of York (U.K.), the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Center for Health and Wellbeing of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He has served on the boards of Covenant House, a local community health center in Northwest Philadelphia, MSI, a venture-capital financed managed behavioral health care corporations, CHE, a large provider system with over 60 hosp itals and nursing homes. Dr. Getzen is a member of the editorial boards of Health Economics and the Journal of Health Administration Education.

1. The Flow of Funds Through the Health Care System

2. Economic Evaluation of Health Services

3. Insurance

4. Health Insurance Contracting and Flow of Funds

5. Physicians

6. Medical Education and Licensure

7. Physician Organization and Business Practices

8. Hospitals

9. Management and Regulation of Hospital Costs

10. Managed Care

11. HMO Ownership and Growth: Risk, Capital, and Competition

12. Long-Term Care

13. The Pharmaceutical Industry

14. Introduction to the Macroeconomics of Health

15. Economic History, Population Growth, and Medical Care

16. The Role of Government

17. Public Goods and Public Health

18. Dynamics of National Health Spending

19. International Comparisons of Health and Health Expenditures

20. Value for Money in the Future of Health Care