Bryan Dowd, PhD, is a professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include markets for health insurance and healthcare services and econometric methods. He was the founding chair of the Methods Council of AcademyHealth and is a senior associate editor for Health Services Research where he initiated the Methods Corner. He is the current chair of the Health Systems and Value Research study section at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dowd teaches courses in advanced research methods and writing for research in the HPM doctoral program. He has over 200 publications in refereed journals, two books, and three “Article of the Year” awards. His current research includes analysis of tiered clinic cost-sharing and evaluation of CMS/CMMI’s Next Generation ACOs with NORC at the University of Chicago. He is a licensed architect and holds a PhD in public policy analysis is from the University of Pennsylvania.