Wendy max

Wendy B. Max is a professor of Health Economics and the co-director of the Institute for Health & Aging in the School of Nursing at the University of California at San Francisco UCSF. Her focus is on cost of illness and she has done important work on the cost of smoking-related illness.

A native of Summit, New Jersey, Wendy was an undergraduate at Stanford University. She went on to earn her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado. She currently lives in Palo Alto, California.