 Dr. Jeffrey C. (Jeff) Bauer is a nationally recognized health futurist and medical economist. He is senior vice president of Superior Consultant Company, Inc. (Southfield, MI), a leading provider of Digital Business TransformationTM services to the healthcare industry. In his numerous publications and presentations, he forecasts the future of health care and describes practical, competitive approaches to restructuring the health care delivery system with a special focus on information technology and e-commerce. His latest book is Telemedicine and the Reinvention of Health Care: The Seventh Revolution in Medicine (McGraw-Hill, 1999), co-authored with Marc Ringel, M.D. His two previous books are Not What the Doctor Ordered: How to End the Medical Monopoly in Pursuit of Managed Care (McGraw-Hill/HFMA, 1998) and Statistical Analysis for Health Care Decision-Makers: Understanding and Evaluating Critical Information in a Competitive Market (Irwin/HFMA, 1996). Dr. Bauer was a full-time teacher and administrator at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver (1973-1984). He served concurrently as health policy adviser to Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm (1980-1984). He also worked as a visiting clinical professor in the Administrative Medicine Program at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught physician executives how to evaluate research reports and other published studies (1992- 1997). Dr. Bauer has published more than 60 articles, nine books, and numerous videos on health care delivery. He speaks frequently to national audiences about the future of health care and medical science, technology, managed care, information systems, public policy, and creative problem solving. Dr. Bauer is quoted often in the national press and writes guest columns for magazines and newsletters that cover the business of health care. He received his PhD. in economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs with a BA in economics and completed a certificate in political studies at the University of Paris (France). During his academic career, he was a Boettcher Scholar, a Ford Foundation Independent Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar (Switzerland), and a Kellogg Foundation National Fellow.
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