Guy David, PhD, is the Alan B. Miller Professor of Health Care Management and chairperson of the Health Care Management Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania; editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Health Economics and Management; and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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.
PProfessor 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.