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Mark S. Kamlet

Mark S. Kamlet is provost and senior vice president of Carnegie Mellon University and professor of economics and public policy.

He received a B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford, and an M.S. in Statistics, M.S. in Economics and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon since 1976. He has served as head of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, associate dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and for eight years served as dean of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.

Kamlet's research areas are in the economics of health care, quantitative methodology, and public finance. He has over 75 published papers, and has received the outstanding publication award from the Association of Public Policy and Management for his work on the federal budgetary process.

He has served on a U.S. Public Health Service panel to produce national guidelines on applying cost-effectiveness analysis in health care; and on three National Institute of Health consensus panels to make recommendations on national policies relating to prenatal genetic testing; neonatal screening; and end-of-life care. He currently serves on the Institute of Medicine's Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, IOM's Committee on Poison Prevention and Control and NIH's Public Access Working Group.

Kamlet is chairman of the board of directors of Carnegie Learning, Inc., past chairman of the board of Carnegie Technology Education, Inc. He is on the board of organizations in the Pittsburgh region including: Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, the Institute for Transfusion Medicine, Western Pennsylvania Hospital and Highmark Inc. He served on the committee that drafted the rules and procedures for the new Allegheny County Executive and County Council, chaired the transition team for Allegheny County in the area of information technology, and chaired the first advisory board for the County Chief Executive on economic development.