MODERATOR:
Sean Nicholson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The Wharton School

Sean Nicholson is an Assistant Professor in the Health Care Systems Department at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses in health care finance, health care information technology, and health economics. Dr. Nicholson is currently conducting research in five areas: the pharmaceutical industry, the economics of the physician workforce, the functioning of health insurance markets, determinants of physician practice patterns, and measuring the costs associated with lost work time. Specific research projects include: examining the determinants of deal values between biotech and pharmaceutical companies; identifying factors that affect pharmaceutical R&D productivity; measuring the impact of pharmaceutical mergers; and measuring risk selection in health insurance markets. Dr. Nicholson received a Ph.D. in economics in 1997 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1986. Prior to graduate school Dr. Nicholson worked for four years as a management consultant with APM.