Uwe reinhardt biography

Biography.
Uwe Ernst Reinhardt was a professor of political economy at Princeton University and held several positions in the healthcare industry.
Born in Germany, Dr. Reinhardt received his bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1964 and his Ph.D.

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Health policy expert and economist Uwe Reinhardt dies at 80

Uwe Reinhardt, PhD, an 80-year-old health economist at Princeton (N.J) University, died Tuesday following an illness.

Here are five things to know about Dr. Reinhardt.

1. Dr. Reinhardt, born in Germany, was the James Madison professor of political economy and professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton.

2. A nationally recognized leader in healthcare economics, Dr. Reinhardt was featured in several publications, including The New York Times, the New England Journal of Medicine and the British Medical Journal.

3. Austin Frakt, a health economist and director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at Boston VA Healthcare System, wrote in a blog post he once called Dr. Reinhardt "'the narrator of U.S. health care policy.' Any journalist who could get hold of him for a health care story was sure to get pure gold. His wit and precision were evident in his spoken and written word. His command of English was tremendous. His ability to explain to lay audiences, legendary."

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Uwe E. Reinhardt

Uwe E. Reinhardt is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1970. He is a leading health policy expert who has advised various state and international bodies, including the World Bank, the Physician Payment Review Commission, the Veterans Administration and the United States Department of Health and Human Services. He writes for Economix about health care, finance, taxes and other issues

Dr. Reinhardt has been a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences since 1978. He has served in the past on the boards of Duke University, the Duke University Health System and other health care providers. He is currently a director of Boston Scientific, a medical device company, and a trustee for the Hambrecht & Quist Life Sciences Fund and Health Care Fund, which are closed-end mutual funds.

Dr. Reinhardt is or has been an editorial board member for many publications, among them The Journal of Health Economics, The Milbank Memorial Quarterly, Health Affairs, The New England Journ

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Uwe Reinhardt

German economist

Uwe Ernst Reinhardt (September 24, 1937 – November 14, 2017) was a professor of political economy at Princeton University and held several positions in the healthcare industry.^[2]^[3] Reinhardt was a prominent scholar in health care economics and a frequent speaker and author on subjects ranging from the war in Iraq^[4]^[5] to the future of Medicare.

Biography

Reinhardt was born 1937 in Osnabrück, Germany, and later emigrated to Canada, where he received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of Saskatchewan.^[6] He later received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University^[6] in 1970, with a thesis titled "An Economic Analysis of Physicians' Practices" under the supervision of Richard Ruggles.^[1] He taught courses in economic theory and policy, accounting, and health economics and policy. Reinhardt's scholarly work focused on economics and policy and included more far-reaching topics such as cost–benefit analyses of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar^[7] and