received a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University in 2011.  His primary research interests are in labor and health economics, with an emphasis on physician labor supply.  His dissertation focused on the identification of compensating wage differentials, with empirical applications to the estimation of the price of occupational fatality risk and the implied value of statistical life, as well as the effects of non-compete agreements in physician labor contracts.  His other research studies the relationships between physicians’ geographic labor supply decisions and physician quality, and formulary design in the Medicare Part D market.