Harold S. Luft

Background

Luft, Harold S. was born on January 6, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of George and Kay (Grossman) Luft.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1968; AM, Harvard University, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1973.

Career

Systems analyst, research assistant Harvard Transport Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965—1968. System analyst Harvard Economic Research Project, 1968—1972. Instructor economic Tufts University, Medford, 1972—1973.

Postdoctoral fellow Harvard Center Community Health, Boston, 1972—1973. Assistant professor health economic Stanford University, California, 1973—1978. Professor health economic, acting director Institute Health Policy Studies, University California, San Francisco, 1978—1993, Caldwell B. Esselstyn professor health policy and health economic, director San Francisco, since 1993.

Consultant Applied Management Sciences, Silver Spring, Maryland, since 1979, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, since 1982, Health Care Financing Administrn., United States Commission on Civil Rights, United States General Accounting office, National Institute Mental Health. Study section National Center Health Services, Rockville, Maryland, 1981—1983. Member council Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1994—1999, chair, National Advisory Council.

Board director Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy.

Achievements

• Harold S. Luft has been listed as a noteworthy Health economist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Health Maintenance Organizations: Dimensions of Performance

Membership

Advisor, finance planning committee Mid-Peninsula Health Service, Palo Alto, California, since 1984. Member American Public Health Association, American Economics Association, Institute Medicine, Western Economics Association, Association for Health Superior vena cava syndrome Research (board directors).

Connections

Married Lorraine Ellin Levinson, May 24, 1970. Children: Shira Levinson, Jana Levinson.

Father:

George Luft

Mother:

Kay (Grossman) Luft

Spouse:

Lorraine Ellin Levinson

child:

Jana Levinson Luft

child:

Shira Levinson Luft