is Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School. He served as chair of the National Advisory Committee for the Scholars Program from 1994 to 2002.  His work has included: benefit-cost analysis, health care financing, health care workforce policy, cost containment, the financing of medical education, and health care reform. His first book was Economics of Mental Illness (1958). His most recent book is Lessons Learned: Medicine, Economics and Public Policy (2010). It is built on various lessons and stories that, as Chair of the NAC, he presented over the years at the Scholars’ Annual Meeting in Aspen. Dr. Fein is a Charter Member of the Institute of Medicine, and a Founding Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.  He was a member of the economics faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a senior staff member of President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers, and a Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution's Economics Program.