Biosketch

Dr. Culler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy Management in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He earned his B.A. in economics at the College of Wooster, and completed his PhD in economics at the University of Illinois in 1981. In past positions, Dr. Culler has served as a member of the faculty at Indiana University and West Virginia University, a research economist with the American Medical Association and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and as a health industry analyst and corporate loan officer at First Chicago Bank. Dr. Culler’s research interests include evaluating the cost effectiveness of selected treatment patterns, explaining variation in costs and health care resource utilization among elderly patients, and bench marking and evaluating the quality of care and provide during episodes of acute care. He has published more than 60 articles and book chapters in the area of hospital costs, health service utilization, and cost effectiveness analysis. In addition, Dr. Culler has completed a variety of consulting projects with a number of corporate clients, including: producing quarterly benchmarks of cardiovascular outcomes and quality of care process measures for Hospital Corporation of America; conducted the cost analysis for several clinical trials for Pfizer, evaluated the robustness and appropriateness of decision models to estimate the cost effectiveness of selected drugs for Eli Lilly and Company, completed marketing studies using administrative data bases for AstraZeneca LP, and estimated the incremental hospital cost of selected cardiac complications for Cardiac Data Solutions, Inc.