Robert I. Field

Director, Health Policy Program

Associate Professor, Health Policy

Education:

Ph.D, psychology, Boston University.

M.P.H., Harvard University School of Public Health.

J.D., Columbia University School of Law.

Expertise:

Health Policy, managed care, health care industry, health law, behavioral health care, ethics in health care.

Background:

Dr. Field heads the new graduate program in health policy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He is also associate professor of health policy. The program offers graduate degrees in the study of government and corporate policy related to health care. It focuses on interdisciplinary training and research in areas such as Medicare reform, health care industry structure and health care ethics. Dr. Field joined the USP faculty from the Health System of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was senior director for planning and business development for the primary care network. He is also a senior fellow of Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He was formerly a practicing health law attorney in Philadelphia and a health policy researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.

He has given presentations nationally on topics such as physician incentives in HMOs, ethical issues in managed care, health care reform and health care industry restructuring. He has also published widely on these topics and been quoted frequently in the press.

Dr. Field has developed a web site (www.healthpolicy.usip.edu) to provide information on health policy developments in the Philadelphia area. The site is supported and maintained by the graduate program in health policy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.