Darius Lakdawalla is a widely published, award-winning researcher and leading authority on health economics and health policy. He holds the Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation at the University of Southern California, where he sits on the faculties of the School of Pharmacy and Sol Price School of Public Policy. He is also the Director of Research at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, one of the nation’s premier health policy research centers. His research has focused primarily on the economics of risks to health, the value and determinants of medical innovation, the economics of health insurance markets, and the industrial organization of healthcare markets.