 Uwe E. Reinhardt, a native of Germany, has taught at Princeton University since 1968. Rising through the ranks from assistant professor of economics to his current position; he has taught courses in both micro- and macro-economic theory and policy, accounting for commercial, private, non-profit, and governmental enterprises, financial management for commercial and non-profit enterprises, and health economics and policy. Professor Reinhardt received the Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1964, when he was also awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal as Most Distinguished Graduate of his class. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1970. His doctoral dissertation, entitled Physician Productivity and Demand for Health Manpower, was subsequently published as a book. Professor Reinhardt has served on a number of governmental committees and commissions, including the National Council on Healthcare Technology of the then U.S. Department of Health and Welfare (1972-82) and the Special Medical Advisory Group of the then Veterans Administration (1981-85). In 1978, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, on whose Governing Council he served from 1979 to 1982. At the institute, he has served on a number of study panels, among them the Committee on the Implications of For-Profit Medicine. He is past president and a Distinguished Fellow of the Association of Health Services Research. In 1997, he joined the Pew Health Professions Commission and was appointed to the External Advisory Panel for Health, Nutrition and Population of The World Bank. Since then, he has served on the Board of Trustees of the Duke University Health System and chaired the Coordinating Committee of The Commonwealth Fund's International Program in Health Policy. Reinhardt has been or is a member of numerous editorial boards, among them the Journal of Health Economics, the Milbank Memorial Bank Quarterly, Health Affairs, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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