Biography of Uwe Reinhardt

Uwe E. Reinhardt, a native of Germany, has taught at Princeton University since 1968, rising from assistant professor of economics to his current position as James Madison professor of political economy and professor of economics. He has taught courses in both micro- and macro-economic theory and policy.

Uwe received the Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1964, when he was also awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal as Most Distinguished Graduate of his graduating class. He received the Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1970. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Physician Productivity and the Demand for Health Manpower. He has received honorary degrees of Doctor of Science from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1985 and from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine CUNY in 1994.

Although Reinhardt’s research interests since that time have centered mainly on health economics and policy, his work has also included topics in corporation finance, including benefit-cost analyses of the Lockheed L-1011 Tri Star and the Space Shuttle.

In 1978, Professor Reinhardt was elected to the Institute of the National Academy of Sciences, on whose Governing Council he served from 1979 to 1982. At the Institute, he served on a number of study panels, among them the Committee of the Implications of For-Profit Medicine. He currently serves on the Institute’s Committee on Technical Innovation in Medicine.

During 1987-90, Reinhardt was a member of the National Leadership Commission on Health Care, a private sector initiative established to develop options for healthcare reform. In 1988, he was elected President of the Assn. of Health Services Research. He is currently Trustee of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association.

Reinhardt has served on a number of government committees, among them the National Council on Health Care Technology of them the U.S. Department of Health and Welfare (1979-82) and the Special Medical Advisory Group of the then Veterans Administration (1981-85). He currently serves his third, three-year appointment to the Physician Payment Review Committee, established by Congress to advise it on issues to the payment of physicians.

Professor Reinhardt has been or is a member of a number of editorial boards, among them the Journal of Health Economics, Modern Healthcare, the Milbank Memorial Bank Quarterly, Health Affairs, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.