Turning confusion into clarity in healthcare

Tina is a professor of economics who has been researching how healthcare markets work (or don’t work!) for over 15 years. Her research focuses on improving healthcare by analyzing the efficiency of markets providing care, information’s impact on patient and provider choices, and how policy impacts health outcomes both regionally and nationally. While delving deeply into policy, regulation, and data, she felt a great need to make economic insights more accessible to those actually working in healthcare. Her goal is to be a positive, constructive, and maybe even humorous voice to educate healthcare decision-makers on economic fundamentals and improve outcomes by connecting policies to the bigger picture.

Finding joy in the ensemble

Tina loves collaboration both professionally and personally, especially in music. She plays the cello, piano, and can often be found Christmas caroling around the neighborhood with her ukulele. She takes her culture both high and low, performing Saint-Saëns concertos, Chopin waltzes, and once being part of an indie band with an album based around the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She loves how music connects people across time and cultures, and enjoys bridging the two with travel and learning new languages.