Elliott S. Fisher
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Elliott S. Fisher is a health policy researcher and advocate for improving health system performance in the United States. He helped develop the concept of accountable care organizations and championed their adoption by Medicare. The development of the Affordable Care Act was influenced by his research on disparities in healthcare spending and utilization across the United States. He has strongly supported a rapid transition from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance models in the U.S. healthcare industry. He is a tenured faculty member at Dartmouth College, where he teaches in the Masters in Public Health program.
Personal life and education
Fisher earned a BA from Harvard College in East Asia Studies in 1976; an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1981; and a MPH in health research from the University of Washington in 1985. He is the son of late Harvard academic Roger Fisher and brother of Peter R. Fisher.
Career
In 1986, Fisher became a member of the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School (now the Geisel School of Medicine), where he continues to teach. He also served as a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont, from 1986 to 2004.
Fisher served as the director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice from 2013 through 2019 and he served as the institute's Director of the Centers for Population Health and Healthy Policy Research from 2007 through 2009.
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