Lawrence P. Casalino is the Livingston Farrand Associate Professor of Public Health and Chief of the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. Previously, he worked for 20 years as a family physician in private practice, obtained a Ph.D. in Health Services Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as an associate professor at the University of Chicago, where he was a core faculty member for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar program. He is the recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; he currently serves on the National Advisory Committee for this program.

He has served on numerous other national committees and as Chair of the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Dr. Casalino studies the organization of physician practice, the use of organized processes to improve the quality of care and reduce disparities, and physician relations with hospitals and health plans, as well as the public and private policies that influence physicians, hospitals and health plans. He has published more than fifty papers in leading medical and health services research journals.