Daniel P. Kessler

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Daniel P. Kessler is a scholar of health policy and health care finance, currently holding the posts of

In addition to authoring and editing books on health reform, he is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and has been published in both popular and academic periodicals.[1]

Kessler earned his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his JD from Stanford Law School in 1993. He has taught at Harvard University and the Wharton School of Business, and has served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 1998. He has been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the California HealthCare Foundation, and won awards from Stanford University, the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, and the International Health Economics Association.[1]

In addition to the general fields of antitrust law and law and economics, Kessler's current areas of interest are the effects of tax policy on medical spending, market-based health care reform, and the effects of vertical integration and other shared ownership structures in health service markets on cost and quality of care.[1]

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