Bringing together the nation’s leading authorities
The core of The Center for Cost-Effective Consumerism is its nationally-recognized Advisory Board.
These renowned experts bring the latest thinking and insights into human behavior and decision making and will help Express Scripts advance its understanding of
consumer behavior.
Dan Ariely, Ph.D.
James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral EconomicsDuke University
Relevant Expertise: Behavioral Economics
Dan Ariely is a highly regarded behavioral economist who studies how actual human behavior diverges from that predicted by complete rationality. He is also the author of the best-selling Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions.
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Ian Ayres, J.D., Ph.D.
William K. Townsend Professor of LawProfessor, Yale School of Management
Yale University
Relevant Expertise: Law & Economics
Ian Ayres is one of the most-cited law professors of his generation and author of the bestseller Super Crunchers. In 2006, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of BioethicsChair, Department of Medical Ethics
University of Pennsylvania
Relevant Expertise: Bioethics
Arthur Caplan has written or edited 25 books and more than 500 articles that have appeared in peer-reviewed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy.
Helen Darling, M.A.
President, National Business Group on HealthRelevant Expertise: Health Policy
Helen Darling heads the Business Group’s Institute on Health Care Costs and Solutions, which is devoted to finding practical solutions, from a business perspective, to the nation’s growing concern about rising costs and affordability of care.
Alan Garber, M.D., Ph.D.
CHP/PCOR Director and Core Faculty MemberHenry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor
Professor of Medicine
Stanford University
Relevant Expertise: Healthcare Economics
Alan Garber is the founding director of both the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford University, where he is a professor of medicine.
Punam Anand Keller, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of ManagementTuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Relevant Expertise: Marketing Communications
Punam Anand Keller is an expert in designing communications programs to influence the voluntary behavior of target audiences in order to improve individual and collective well being.
Brian Knutson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology & NeuroscienceCHP/PCOR Associate
Stanford University
Relevant Expertise: Psychology & Neuroscience
Brian Knutson is assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University. His research focuses on the neural basis of emotional experience and expression.
David Laibson is a professor of economics at Harvard University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His studies include macroeconomics, psychology and economics, neuroeconomics, and finance.
Bob Nease investigates patient decision making and healthcare behavior in the setting of the pharmacy benefit.
Emily Oster, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of EconomicsThe University of Chicago
Relevant Expertise: Economics
Emily Oster is an assistant professor of economics at The University of Chicago, where she
studies health and development, with an emphasis on the interactions between disease and
human behavior.
Mark Turner, Ph.D.
Institute ProfessorProfessor and Chair of Cognitive Science
Case Western Reserve University
Relevant Expertise: Cognitive Science
Mark Turner is a cognitive scientist, linguist and author. His most recent book is the edited volume The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity.
Paul Zak, Ph.D.
Professor of EconomicsFounding Director of the Center of Neuroeconomics Studies
Claremont Graduate University
Relevant Expertise: Neuroeconomics
Paul Zak is credited with the first published use of the term “neuroeconomics” and has been at the vanguard in this new discipline that integrates neuroscience and economics.