Charles E. Phelps (professor)
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Biography
Chuck Phelps became provost of the University of Rochester on July 1, 1994[1], and held that position until he retired on July 31, 2007[2]. He is an expert on health and health care economics.
Career
Phelps began his career at the RAND Corporation, where he worked from 1971 through 1984, when he joined the University of Rochester as a professor and director of the public policy analysis program, a graduate program offered by the Department of Political Science in conjunction with the Department of Economics.
Over his nearly 30-year career, Phelps held a variety of leadership positions, including chair of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine (now the Department of Public Health Sciences) in the School of Medicine and Dentistry. While he was chair, he created a PhD program in health services research and policy. He also supervised 35 PhD dissertations in public policy, economics, political science, nursing, statistics, and health services research and policy.
In 1994, Phelps became the University’s provost in 1994, a position he held for 13 years. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing the academic activity of the University, including teaching, research, and supporting services (e.g., libraries, information technology, and technology transfer) in each of the University’s six schools. He currently holds the titles of University Professor and provost emeritus[3].
Since retiring as provost in 2007, Phelps published the book Eight Questions You Should Ask about Our Health Care System: (Even if the Answers Make You Sick), maintained an active health economics consulting practice, served on two committees for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (now the National Academy of Medicine), and chaired the committee that helped to create new undergraduate majors in public health at Rochester. During the 2008–09 academic year, Phelps served as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Expertise
Phelps has achieved national and international recognition for his scholarly research. In 1991, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and to the National Bureau for Economic Research. He served two terms on the Report Review Committee of the National Academies for a total of nine years of service.
Phelps is the author of Health Economics, now in its fifth edition (2012), a textbook he developed while teaching at the University. The book is recognized as the “gold standard” among textbooks about health economics and health policy. It has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, and Korean.
Phelps participated from 1997 to 2007 in the Association of American Universities’ (AAU’s) Committee on Digital Technology and Intellectual Property Rights and was an active participant in the AAU’s work in areas involving related topics. He also testified before Congress in June 1998 on issues pertaining to the implementation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaty[4] and has spoken on related matters in conferences on these issues sponsored by, among others, the Department of Commerce. He also testified, in July 2005, on patent reform for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property.[5]
Education
Phelps received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Pomona College in Claremont, California in 1965. He then earned both an MBA in hospital administration and a PhD in business economics from the University of Chicago’s graduate school of business in 1973 (now its Booth School of Business)
References
- ^ "Phelps Named New University Provost". University of Rochester. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "Provost Charles Phelps Announces Retirement". University of Rochester. 9 November 2006. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "Provost Emeritus Phelps". Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ Phelps, Charles. "Transcript of testimony before Congressional Subcommittee on Telecommunications Trade, and Consumer Protection". Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ Phelps, Charles. "Testimony of Charles E. Phelps Provost, University of Rochester On behalf of the Association of American Universities to Senate Judiciary Committee" (PDF). Retrieved 19 August 2015.
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