BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kevin Volpp (University of Pennsylvania) will present "Beha vioral Economics and Health" at the annual Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavio ral Economics. Dr. Volpp is the founding director of the Center for Health Incentives\nand Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) and the Mark V. Pauly Presid ent’s\nDistinguished Professor at Perelman School of Medicine and Health C are\nManagement at the Wharton School. He is also the Health Policy Divisi on Chief\nfor the Department of Medical Ethics and Policy.His work focuses on developing and testing innovative ways of\napplying insights from beha vioral economics in improving patient health\nbehavior and affecting provi der performance. He has done work with a variety of\nemployers\, insurers\ , health systems\, and consumer companies in testing the\neffectiveness of different behavioral economic strategies in addressing tobacco\ndependenc e\, obesity\, and medication non-adherence. He has competitively been\nawa rded more than $98 million to lead or co-lead studies funded by the NIH\; the\nCenter for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation\; the CDC\; VA Health Ser vices\nResearch and Development\; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\; the Hew lett\nFoundation\; the Commonwealth Foundation\; the Aetna Foundation\; Mc kinsey\; CVS\nCaremark\; Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield\; Hawaii Medical S ervices Association\;\nMerck\; Humana\; Aramark\; WW\; and Discovery (Sout h Africa).Dr. Volpp has published over 300 articles including work in jour nals such as\nthe New England Journal of Medicine\, the Journal of the Ame rican Medical\nAssociation\, and Health Affairs\, and has been covered by media\noutlets such as The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The\ nEconomist\, Good Morning America\, BBC\, National Public Radio\, Der Spie gel\, Freakonomics\nand Freakonomics MD\, and Australian National Radio.Dr . Volpp earned his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in biology\nfrom Harv ard and was a Rotary Scholar at Freie Universitat in Berlin\, Germany\,\nw here he studied the organization of health care delivery in the former Eas t\nGermany. He earned an MD from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School\nof Medicine and a PhD from Wharton. DTEND:20230330T213000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T111504Z DTSTART:20230330T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral Economics UID:RFCALITEM639140805046356545 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Dr. Kevin Volpp (University of Pennsylvania ) will present "Behavioral Economics and Health" at the annual Paul Volcke r Lecture in Behavioral Economics.

Dr. Volpp is the founding direct or of the Center for Health Incentives\nand Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) a nd the Mark V. Pauly President’s\nDistinguished Professor at Perelman Scho ol of Medicine and Health Care\nManagement at the Wharton School. He is al so the Health Policy Division Chief\nfor the Department of Medical Ethics and Policy.

His work focuses on developing and testing innovative wa ys of\napplying insights from behavioral economics in improving patient he alth\nbehavior and affecting provider performance. He has done work with a variety of\nemployers\, insurers\, health systems\, and consumer companie s in testing the\neffectiveness of different behavioral economic strategie s in addressing tobacco\ndependence\, obesity\, and medication non-adheren ce. He has competitively been\nawarded more than $98 million to lead or co -lead studies funded by the NIH\; the\nCenter for Medicare and Medicaid In novation\; the CDC\; VA Health Services\nResearch and Development\; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\; the Hewlett\nFoundation\; the Commonwealth Foun dation\; the Aetna Foundation\; Mckinsey\; CVS\nCaremark\; Horizon Blue Cr oss Blue Shield\; Hawaii Medical Services Association\;\nMerck\; Humana\; Aramark\; WW\; and Discovery (South Africa).

Dr. Volpp has published over 300 articles including work in journals such as\nthe New England Jou rnal of Medicine\, the Journal of the American Medical\nAssociation\, and Health Affairs\, and has been covered by media\noutlets such as The New Yo rk Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The\nEconomist\, Good Morning America \, BBC\, National Public Radio\, Der Spiegel\, Freakonomics\nand Freakonom ics MD\, and Australian National Radio.

Dr. Volpp earned his bachelo r’s degree magna cum laude in biology\nfrom Harvard and was a Rotary Schol ar at Freie Universitat in Berlin\, Germany\,\nwhere he studied the organi zation of health care delivery in the former East\nGermany. He earned an M D from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School\nof Medicine and a PhD from Wharton.

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