is Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and holds the Chair in Healthcare Markets & Consumer Welfare endowed by the Office of the Attorney General for the State of California. He is director of The Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research as well as director of The Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare. He has been a Rockefeller and a Fulbright Scholar, and served as President of the International Health Economics Association’s 4th World Congress in 2004. Professor Scheffler has published over 180 papers and edited and written nine books, including his most recent book, Is There a Doctor in the House? Market Signals and Tomorrow’s Supply of Doctors, published by Stanford University Press, September 2008. Along with Stephen Hinshaw, Chair of the psychology department at UC Berkeley, he recently received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to write a book, ADHD Medication in America: Society, Schools, and Public Policy which is forthcoming from Oxford Press.