Stephen T. Parente MS, MPH, PhD

Stephen T. Parente, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S. holds the Minnesota Insurance Industry Endowed Chair in Health Finance and is a Professor in the Department of Finance at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota where he specializes in health insurance, medical technology evaluation, health economics and outcomes research. He is also the Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute (MILI). He has extensive experience directing empirical analyses utilizing primary and secondary data bases and is acknowledged as a national expert on using administrative databases, particularly Medicare and managed care organization data, for health policy research.

He has served has a consultant to several of the largest organizations in health care delivery including United Health Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield, CMS, the American Association of Health Plans, Pfizer, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Johns Hopkins University, and various state governments as well as biotechnology firms. He is currently the principal investigator for an evaluation of consumer-directed health plans using claims data from several large employers.