Dr. Rachel M. Werner is the Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine as well as the Robert D. Eilers Memorial – William Maul Measey Professor of Health Care Management and Economics at the Wharton School. She is also a physician at the Philadelphia VA.

Over the last 20 years, Dr. Werner has built a foundational research program examining the effects of health care payment and related policies on health care delivery, using methods designed to draw causal inference from observational data. She has investigated the unintended consequences of quality improvement incentives, and was among the first to recognize that public reporting of quality information may worsen racial disparities.