During David A. Asch’s 14-year tenure as executive director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the group’s research funding has soared to $126 million from $9 million a year, he said.
"It’s been great growth, it’s been an amazing thing to watch and be part of," said Asch, who is stepping down from his leadership role at the institute, but will continue as a professor of health-care management and economics, with appointments at the Perelman School of Medicine and at the Wharton School.
When Asch took on management of the institute in 1998, people were talking about out-of-control health-care costs "with almost as much passion as they say it now," said Asch, a medical doctor who practices general internal medicine.
