2012 Victor R. Fuchs Lifetime Achievement Award

Mark V. Pauly is the Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Management, Professor of Health Care Management, and Business and Public Policy at The Wharton School.  He is Co-Director of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Life Sciences and Management Program and Professor of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pauly received the Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia. One of the nation’s leading health economists, he has made significant contributions to the fields of medical economics and health insurance. His classic study on the economics of moral hazard was the first to point out how health insurance coverage may affect patients’ use of medical services. A former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission, Dr. Pauly has served on the advisory committee to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and the Medicare Technical Advisory Panel. He recently served on the National Advisory Council for the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, an associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and Co-Editor of the Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2.

2012 ASHEcon Medal Award

Amitabh Chandra is a Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). In 2011 he served as Massachusetts’ Special Commissioner on Provider Price Reform. He is an editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economics Letters, and the American Economic Journal, and was previously an editor at the Journal of Human Resources. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He is the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute’s Dissertation Research Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, and the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of medical research.

University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
School of Business, Economics and Law
Department of Economics

Position as
Professor of Health Economics
The School of Business, Economics and Law is recruiting a professor of health economics placed at
the Department of Economics. The Department of Economics has about 80 employees, and it hosts
the recently established Centre for Health Economics at the University of Gothenburg. The centre is
an organization for collaboration between institutions and researchers engaged in the healtheconomics
area at the University of Gothenburg, the Nordic School of Public Health, Chalmers
University of Technology, Region Västra Götaland, and the industry. It is a “centre without walls”,
and it is led by a director with office in the Department. Further information about the Department
can be found at www.economics.gu.se.

Job assignments:
We seek a researcher with the ability of building an internationally competitive research
environment in health economics within the Centre for Health Economics. The position involves
planning, conducting and leading research and teaching. Providing research information, planning
research projects and applying for grants are working tasks for the professor. The professor is also
supposed to cooperate with other health‐related sciences at the University and with other economic
sub‐disciplines at the Department as well as to interact with the surrounding society.
Assessment:
When making the appointment, special emphasis will be given to academic ability shown in
publications within the health‐economics field in leading international journals. The position requires
a close collaboration with other health‐related disciplines. Documented experience of such
collaboration is therefore a merit. Research related to the Department’s other profile areas is also of
merit. Pedagogical and administrative abilities are also taken into account, as is the experience of
interaction with the surrounding society. When assessing pedagogical skills, special emphasis is put
on teaching and supervision at the post‐graduate level. Having acted as main applicant at larger
applications and/or directing larger research projects in health economics is also a merit.
Closing date
21 May 2012
Further information
Katarina Nordblom, Associate Professor, Head of Department. Telephone: +46 31 – 786 1338,
katarina.nordblom@economics.gu.se
Björn Lindgren, Professor, Director of CHEGU (Centre for Health Economics at the University of
Gothenburg), bjorn.lindgren@economics.gu.se.
www.economics.gu.se