Research Interests for Frank A. Sloan

Research Interests: Health Policy, Physician Behavior, and Hospital Behavior

Frank Sloan is the J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics at Duke University since 1993. He is also the Director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management at Duke that originated in 1998. Professor Sloan did his undergraduate work at Oberlin College and received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at Duke in July, 1993, he was a Research Economist at the Rand Corporation and on the faculties of the University of Florida and Vanderbilt University. He was Chair of the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt from 1986-89. His current research interests include alcohol use prevention, long-term care, medical malpractice, and cost-effectiveness analyses of medical technologies. Professor Sloan also has a long-standing interest in hospitals, health care financing, and health manpower. He has served on several national advisory public and private groups. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and was recently a member of the Physician Payment Review Commission.

Recent Publications
  1. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke, Medical Malpractice (2008), MIT Press
  2. F.A. Sloan with G. Picone and S-Y. Chou, Are For-Profit Hospital Conversions Harmful to Patients and to Medicare?, Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 33 no. 3 (Fall, 2002), pp. 507-23
  3. F.A. Sloan with P.R, Costanzo, P.S. Malone, D. Belsky, S. Kertesz, M. Pletcher, Longitudinal Differences in Alcohol Use in Early Adulthood, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, vol. 68 (September, 2007), pp. 727-37
  4. F.A. Sloan with Ahmed Khwaja and Dan Silverman, Time Preference, Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions, Journal of Health Economics, vol. 26 no. 5 (September, 2007), pp. 927-949
  5. F.A. Sloan with J.D. Stein, and P.P. Lee, Rates of Glaucoma Medication Utilization Among Older Adults with Suspected Glaucoma, 1992-2002: Findings from the Current Beneficiary Survey, American Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 143 no. 5 (May, 2007), pp. 870-872