Christopher C. Afendulis, PhD, a lecturer in health care policy, joined the faculty of the Department of Health Care Policy in 2006. His research interests include the spillover effects of managed care practices, as well as the effects of mandatory managed care enrollment for Medicaid beneficiaries. He also studies the role that reimbursement incentives play in medical providers’ referral and integration decisions, technology diffusion and its impact on health care utilization and outcomes, and racial and ethnic differences in treatments for mothers and infants.

Current projects include an investigation of the impacts of expanding MRI and CT availability over time on health care costs, utilization, and outcomes; the relationship between Medicare reimbursement rules, hospitals’ vertical integration decisions, and the provision of postacute care; and methods for linking Medicare enrollment and claims records with cause-of-death data.

Before joining HCP, Dr. Afendulis served as a senior research analyst at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a senior research analyst at both the Stanford University Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research and the Stanford Department of Health Research and Policy. Dr. Afendulis received his AB in political science from the University of Michigan and his PhD in political science from Harvard University.