Avi Dor, Ph.D.
Avi Dor is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy.
- Phone: 202-994-4202
- Fax: 202-994-4040
- Email: avidor@gwu.edu
Professor Avi Dor brings both think tank and academic experience to his position at GW, where he arrived in the summer of 2007 to lead a new department program in economics and health policy. He remains a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, where he is involved in the health economics and health care economics programs. He previously served as a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and a Research Associate at the Urban Institute, where he developed expertise in medical pricing; provider–insurer interactions; hospital costs and efficiency; and effects of incentives on the process of medical care and outcomes, Prior to joining GW, his most recent appointment was as Mannix Medical Mutual Professor of Health Care Economics at Case Western Reserve University. New then to academia, Professor Dor developed a full complement of health economics courses that focused primarily on provider markets and insurance issues. Mirroring a new direction in his own research, Professor Dor also created a graduate course on pharmaceutical economics and strategy. At Case Western, he was also Research Director of the Health Systems Management Center.
Education
Bachelor of Science (Economics and Political Science), Queens College, CUNY, 1976
Doctor of Philosophy, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1987
Research
Dr. Dor's current research focuses on novel aspects of medical pricing, particularly endogeneity of insurance choice; cost–sharing in pharmaceutical insurance and spillover effects, and the role of management contracts in the locally competitive positions of American hospitals. He served as principle investigator of a multi–year Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant, studying medical outcomes and pricing. In 2005, Professor Dor was awarded the MedStat–Thomson Best Investigator Award in Health Services Research for his work on insurance databases. He has published widely on health economics in a broad range of leading journals, including the American Economic Review, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Journal of Health Economics.
Community Service
Professor Dor is a member of the International Health Economics Association and has refereed submissions for numerous peer–reviewed journals. He was also on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the U.S. Renal Dialysis System, a combined Medicare–NIH program, and continues to advise large national and international health care organizations, including the World Bank, on policy–related issues.
Expertise
- Health Economics