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Gloria J. Bazzoli is professor of health administration at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Previously she was research professor with the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies at Northwestern University. Bazzoli undertakes research on the restructuring of health care organizations and health markets. She is a lead investigator in studies of physician-hospital integration, the effects of hospital mergers, the management and policy implications of provider financial riskbearing, and examination of the key strategic/structural characteristics of emerging health organizations. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University and her B.S. in economics from the University of Illinois—Champaign/Urbana.

Lawrence P. Casalino is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Studies at the University of Chicago. For twenty years prior to coming to Chicago, he worked as a family physician in private practice in California. He uses concepts from organizational and institutional economics and sociology to study the effects of public and private policies on the organization of physician practice and on physician relations with health plans and hospitals. He also studies the effects on the cost and quality of care of different forms of physician organization and of physician-plan and physicianhospital relationships.

Stefan Gildemeister is a senior health policy analyst for the Minnesota Department of Health, where he conducts research and assists in policy development on a variety of issues concerning health insurance, including state and national health care market reform, trends in public health insurance, health coverage for the uninsured, quality of care, and changes in employer-sponsored coverage. Before serving in this and other positions at the health department beginning in 1998, Gildemeister conducted comparative research for a number of research institutions in the United States and Germany. He is a graduate of the New School for Social Research and the University of Bremen with a master's degree in both economics and business administration.

Michael S. Goldstein is professor of public health (community health sciences) and sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University and has conducted research on a wide array of topics dealing with innovative behavior among health professionals and the behavior of individuals with chronic illness. He teaches graduate courses on complementary and alternative medicine, the sociology of the health professions, and self-help/self-care. He is the author of two books, The Health Movement: Promoting Fitness in America (1992) and Alternative Health Care: Medicine, Miracle or Mirage (1999). Currently he is co-principle investigator and program director on an NCI-funded study examining the use of alternative medicine among more than 8,000 Californians with chronic illness.

Stefan Greß is an assistant professor at the Institute for Health Care Management at the School of Business and Economics of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He was formerly a researcher at the Center of Social Policy at the University of Bremen and an assistant professor at the University of Greifswald. His main areas of research and expertise are health services research, health policy, and health insurance.

Sydney A. Halpern is professor of sociology and medical humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work examines health care institutions and professions using social science perspectives and historical techniques. She has written about developments within academic medicine, the emergence of medical specialties, evolvingrelationships among health occupations, and directions in the field of medical sociology. Her recent scholarship addresses the formal and informal regulation of human experimentation and includes Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research (2004).

Clark C. Havighurst is professor of law and William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law (Emeritus) at Duke University. Throughout a long career, his teaching and scholarly interests have focused mostly on antitrust law and health care law and policy. His writings include articles on the role of competition and private contract in the financing and delivery of health care, a wide range of antitrust issues arising in the health care field, the law of medical malpractice, and many kinds of regulation in the health services industry. In 1998 he published (with the help of James F. Blumstein and Troyen A. Brennan) a revised edition of...

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