Kimberly Mac Pherson

Education

MPH, University of California, Berkeley, 1994, Health Policy & Management
MBA, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 1994
BA, University of California, Davis, 1988, Psychology and Organizational Studies

Positions Held

At Haas since 2013

• 2013 – present, Associate Director Health Management, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
  
• 2008 – present, Co-Director of Berkeley Center for Healthy Technology, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
  
• 2006 – present, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
  

External Service and Assignments

• Fiduciary Board of Trustee for St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco

Current Research and Interests

• Health Care Reform and Market Response
• Digital Health and Emerging Innovation
• Policy and Management of Biomedical Innovation
• End of Life/Advanced Care Planning

Selected Papers and Publications

• “Payers Test Reference Pricing and Centers of Excellence to Steer Patients to Low-Price and High-Quality Providers” with James Robinson. Health Affairs. (September 2012)

Teaching

• PH 223D: Foundation of Health Policy and Management
• PH 223E: Capstone Course in Health Policy and Management
• PH 223F: Effective Public Health Negotiations
• PH 227A: Health Care Finance
• PH 297: PH Field Study