- Titles:
- Alan B. MillerProfessor of Health Care Management, The Wharton School
- Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
- Education:
- University of Chicago, PhD, Business Economics
- Tel-Aviv University, MA, Economics
Guy David is the Alan B. Miller Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School and professor of medical ethics and health policy at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the chair of the Health Care Management Department, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and he leads several large-scale data collaborations, such as the Wharton-Anthem Research Initiative. Professor David is the co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Health Economics and Management and is the former director of the doctoral program in Health Care Management and Economics.
His research interests include the dynamics of mixed-ownership competition in health care markets, evaluation of policies towards nonprofit providers, industrial organization and regulation of post-acute care, the economics and organization of emergency medical services, division of labor along the care continuum, patient-centered medical care, welfare effects of specialty hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, and direct-to-consumer advertising and drug safety.
Professor David teaches undergraduate, MBA, and PhD courses in Health Economics and Health Care Delivery at Wharton. In 2017, he was the recipient of the Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award, which is awarded in recognition of contributions to the educational experience of Wharton’s students. He received his BA and MA in Economics from Tel Aviv University and his PhD in Business Economics from the University of Chicago.