David A. Asch, MD, MBAExecutive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
David Asch is Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Robert D. Eilers Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management and Economics at the School of Medicine and the Wharton School. Established in 1967, the Leonard Davis Institute is one of the oldest and best-regarded centers in the nation devoted to understanding and improving the organization, delivery, management, and financing of health care. More than 175 Senior Fellows conduct the work of the institute.
Dr. Asch's research aims to understand how physicians and patients behave and make medical choices in clinical, financial, and ethically charged settings. He has special expertise in understanding how physicians and patients incorporate perceptions of financial cost and health risk into their decisions, including the adoption of new pharmaceuticals or medical technologies or the purchase of health or life insurance. His research combines elements of economic analysis with moral and psychological theory and marketing.
He teaches health policy at the Wharton School, and he practices internal medicine at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he is Chief of Health Services Research and Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion. He also directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Asch received his bachelor's degreer' from Harvard University, his MD from Cornell University and his MBA in Health Care Management and Decision Sciences from the Wharton School. He has been a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, a Measey Foundation Scholar, a John A. Hartford Foundation Faculty Fellow, and a Health Services Research Career Development awardee from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
David A. Asch, MD, MBA
