Michael Morrisey, PhD, is a Professor of Health Economics and Health Insurance at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health. He is director of the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, an endowed research center at UAB named for former Alabama Senator Joseph Lister Hill. His research interests have largely focused on employer sponsored health insurance and on the effects of legislation and regulation in health and health care. Recent work has examined the effects of gasoline prices, beer taxes and graduated driver’s license programs on motor vehicle fatalities; the effects of medical malpractice reforms on health insurance premiums; issues in academic labor markets; and the economic and disease burden of osteoporosis and fractures. His textbook, Health Insurance, was published by Health Administration Press in 2008. Morrisey is the author of four other books and over 160 papers on health economics and health policy. He is an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a fellow of the Employee Benefits Research Institute. He is the treasurer of the American Society of Health Economists and is the former secretary/treasurer of the International Health Economics Association. Dr. Morrisey was the first recipient of the John Thompson Young Investigator Award in health services research. In 2000 Morrisey was the recipient of the UAB School of Public Health Distinguished Investigator Award and in 2001 received the UAB School of Public Health President’s Award for Teaching. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Washington (Seattle).