Lawrence Casalino is a physician and health services researcher at the University of Chicago. His background includes 20 years as a family physician in private practice as well as a Ph.D. in Health Services Research, with a focus on organizational and institutional sociology and economics. He is the recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Dr. Casalino is one of the nation’s leading experts on the organization of medical practice, on the use of organized processes to improve the quality of care, and on physician relations with hospitals and health plans. He has worked closely with the Federal Trade Commission and with physician organizations in cases involving clinical integration of IPAs and PHOs. Dr. Casalino’s work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs, and other leading medical and policy journals.