Patricia Danzon is the Celia Moh Professor at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where she is a Professor and former Chair of the Health Care Management Department, and Professor of Insurance and Risk Management. She is also Chair of the Health Care Management Department. Professor Danzon received a B.A. First Class, in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, from Oxford University, England, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Dr. Danzon’s previous positions include Associate Professor at Duke University, Research Economist at The Rand Corporation, and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.

Professor Danzon is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of health care, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and liability systems. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and of the National Academy of Social Insurance. She is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Board memberships include the Board of the International Health Economics Association. She has served as a consultant on international health care issues to the World Bank, the European Commission Working Group on Pharmaceuticals, the New Zealand Treasury, the Asian Development Bank, and U.S. Agency for International Development. In the U.S. her consulting experience includes work for the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the Insurance Services Office, the Institute for Civil Justice, the Alliance of American Insurers and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association.

Professor Danzon is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics and the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics. She was previously an Associate Editor of the American Economic Review, the Journal of Risk and Insurance and J. of Biolaw and Business. She has published widely in scholarly journals on a broad range of subjects related to medical care, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and the economics of law.