Lorens Helmchen
Lorens Helmchen
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Full-time Faculty
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health
Department: Health Policy and Management
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Lorens Helmchen
Office Phone:
202-994-3816
Milken Institute School of Public Health
950 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Office: 604
Washington DC 20052
Lorens A. Helmchen, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University.
He teaches courses on health economics and predictive analytics in the School's online and residential Master of Health Administration and Master of Public Health programs.
Dr. Helmchen applies microeconomic theory and econometric methods to study innovation in provider payment, health insurance benefit design, and digital health.
His research has been funded by federal agencies, private foundations, device manufacturers, health insurers, and hospital systems.
Dr. Helmchen’s research has been published in the field’s leading scientific journals and featured on National Public Radio, in the New York Times, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous scientific journals, book publishers, and grant-making institutions, and as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Health Economics and Management. He has testified as an expert witness before a state legislature and written for Slate Magazine.
Dr. Helmchen earned an M.A. in economics from Humboldt University, Berlin and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He is fluent in German and Spanish and proficient in French.
Since 2017 he has been co-organizing the monthly Collaborative Health Economics Seminar Series (CHESS).
Links:
Health Economics
Health Care Financing
Health Insurance
Health Quality
Hospitals and Health Systems
Medicare
Pharmaceuticals
Program Evaluation
Cancer Policy
Ph.D., Economics, The University of Chicago, 2004
M.A. (Diplom-Volkswirt), Economics, Humboldt University Berlin, 1997
Visiting Graduate Student, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1997 – 1998
Visiting Graduate Student, Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique, Paris, 1995 – 1996
Undergraduate Diploma, Economics, Free University Berlin, 1992 – 1994
AFS Exchange Student, Colegio La Salle, Caracas, 1989 – 1990
Health Economics (HSML 6211, residential MHA program)
Health Economics and Quantitative Methods (Module 5, MHA@GW program)
Predictive Analytics (HSML 6295, HealthInformatics@GW program)
Quantitative Methods and Epidemiology in Health Services (HSML 6206, residential MHA program)
Ad hoc reviewer for American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Managed Care, Forum for Health Economics & Policy, Health Affairs, Health Economics, Health Services Research, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), PLoS ONE; Springer-Verlag, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press; FWF Austrian Science Fund, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), National Science Foundation, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Swiss National Science Foundation
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qCw6m0YAAAAJ