Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, INDUSTRY NEWS: Former FTC Bureau of Economics Deputy Director Leemore Dafny joins Bates White, (Oct 3, 2013)

Dr. Leemore Dafny, a former Deputy Director for Health Care and Antitrust in the FTC Bureau of Economics and a Professor at Northwestern University, has joined Bates White Economic Consulting as an Academic Affiliate in its Antitrust and Competition and Healthcare and Life Sciences Practices, the firm has announced.

Dafny served as Deputy Director for Health Care and Antitrust in 2012-2013, a position intended by the FTC to enhance its efforts to promote competition in the health care sector. In that role, Dafny oversaw the work of more than 50 economists in investigating cases and advising on competitive issues, including the effects of provider consolidation and reverse payment settlement agreements in the pharmaceutical industry. She has also served as an outside expert to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division in a health plan merger case.

At Northwestern, Dafny holds positions as Professor of Management and Strategy and the Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services at the Kellogg School of Management, and as a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. Her academic research focuses on competitive interactions among payers and providers of healthcare services, with an emphasis on antitrust, competitive strategy, and public policy. Her research has won the Kellogg School’s leading research prize, the Stanley Reiter Best Paper award, among other accolades, and has been published in leading economics journals.

Bates White Economic Consulting provides economics consulting services to law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies from offices in San Diego and Washington, D.C.

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