Peter I. Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN - Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Dr. Peter Buerhaus is the Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, Institute for Medicine & Public Health, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. From 2000 – 2006 he served as the Senior Associate Dean for Research at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, and from 1992-2000 was an assistant professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health where he developed the Harvard Nursing Research Institute and a post-doctoral program in nursing health services research. During the 1980s Dr. Buerhaus served as assistant to the chief executive officer of the University of Michigan Medical Center’s seven teaching hospitals and assistant to the Vice Provost for Medical Affairs, the chief executive of the medical center. Dr. Buerhaus was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 1994, and elected into the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine in 2003. Over his career, he has served on a number of governmental and health association boards and committees. Dr. Buerhaus earned his baccalaureate degree in nursing from Mankato State University, a masters degree in nursing health services administration from The University of Michigan, a doctoral degree from at Wayne State University, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation faculty fellow in health care finance at The Johns Hopkins University (1991-1992).
Douglas O. Staiger, PhD - John French Professor in Economics, Dartmouth College, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Dr. Douglas Staiger is the John French Professor in Economics at Dartmouth College, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before coming to Dartmouth, he was Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University (1990-1993), and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government (1993-1998). Dr. Staiger is a health and labor economist who has worked on topics including nurse labor markets, the quality of medical care, school accountability and school choice programs, and statistical methods in health and economics. Professor Staiger has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in leading journals in the fields of economics, medicine, and education. His work has been supported by grants from government agencies and foundations including the National Institute of Aging, National Institute of Child Health and Development, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Education, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. Dr. Staiger earned his baccalaureate degree in economics and mathematics from Williams College (1984), a doctoral degree in Economics from MIT (1990), and was a NIH postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (1994-1995).
David I. Auerbach, PhD - Principal Analyst, Health and Human Resource Division, Congressional Budget Office
Dr. David Auerbach earned his PhD in health policy, with a concentration in economics, from Harvard University in 2002. He then worked briefly with the Research Triangle Institute working on projects concerning long term care and has since been Associate, and recently Principal analyst with the Congressional Budget Office starting in 2003. There, he has researched issues relating to competition in Medicare, health insurance coverage, and geographic variation in health care spending – maintaining an interest always in issues surrounding the health care workforce. This research at CBO has resulted in many publications, both in the peer-reviewed literature and on behalf of CBO, as well as various cost estimates of proposed legislation. He has published numerous papers with Drs Buerhaus and Staiger over the period from 1999 to 2007.
