Lawrence Casalino, MD, PhD
Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD, is the Livingston Farrand Associate Professor of Public Health and chief of the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. Previously, he worked for 20 years as a family physician in private practice, obtained a PhD in health services research at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as an associate professor at the University of Chicago, where he was a core faculty member for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program. He is the recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and serves on the program's National Advisory Committee. Casalino studies the organization of physician practice, the use of organized processes to improve the quality of care and reduce disparities, and physician relations with hospitals and health plans, as well as the public and private policies that influence physicians, hospitals and health plans. He has published more than 50 papers in leading medical and health services research journals.
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Participating in the Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research program—first as an awardee and later as a member of the National Advisory Committee—has been one of the best parts of my academic life. It made it possible for me to do research that involved untested ideas and that crossed disciplines—research that would have been very difficult to do otherwise. And, through the annual meetings, I’ve been exposed to a very broad range of ideas and have enjoyed interacting with extremely creative people.