Alan M. Garber, M.D., Ph.D.
CHP/PCOR Director; Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor and Professor of Medicine and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics, of Health Research and Policy, and of Economics in the Graduate School of Business; FSI Senior Fellow & Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Senior Fellow CHP/PCOR
Research Interests
health screening programs; health care of the elderly; methods of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis; health expenditure growth; international comparisons of healthcare financing and delivery; evaluation of new healthcare technologies; improving processes for making medical decisions
Dr. Garber has been Director of both the University's Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at the School of Medicine since their founding. Dr. Garber is a Staff Physician at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Associate Director of the VA Center for Health Care Evaluation, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He was the founding Director of the Health Care Program of the NBER, a position he held for 19 years.
His full CV appears at http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/people/2089/