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Dr. Ohsfeldt is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Rural Public Health at Texas A&M University. In 2016, he was designated a Regents Professor, a prestigious award for faculty who have provided exemplary service to the university and community. Previously, he has been a Professor at the University of Iowa and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, and was employed as a manager of health outcomes research for Eli Lilly and Company, where he received the President’s Award from Lilly Research Laboratories in 2001. Dr. Ohsfeldt completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Houston in 1983 and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow in Healthcare Finance at Johns Hopkins University and the Texas Medical Center during 1987-88. He is author or co-author of more than 160 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and is a co-author of The Business of Health (AEI Press, 2006). He has broad expertise on cost analysis and cost data, cost-effectiveness analysis, budget impact analysis, regression analysis and analyses of large administrative claims databases. Dr. Ohsfeldt has been the principal investigator for research grants funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has served as a peer-reviewer for more than 60 scientific journals and has been a member of grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Ohsfeldt currently serves as a member of the Editorial Board for Value in Health and was a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy from 2005-2015.