Karoline Mortensen, PhD, is Associate Dean of Business Programs and Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Miami Herbert Business School. She is Associate Director of the Center for Health Management and Policy, and was the founding Director of the Master of Health Administration (MHA) program at the University of Miami. She earned her Ph.D. in Health Services Organization and Policy from the University of Michigan. Dr. Mortensen is a health services researcher, and her research interests are focused on health insurance, health care utilization, and the health care delivery system. She has received awards for outstanding teaching, mentoring of graduate students, and mentoring of undergraduate students, and was recently named a Poets&Quants top 50 undergraduate business school professor. She served as a member of the Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Services and Value Research study section from 2015-2021, was a Public Voices OpEd Project Fellow, and is on the steering committee of the Southeastern Health Economics Study Group. Dr. Mortensen is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Health Economics and Management, and on the Editorial Board for Health Services Research, and has testified before the United States Congress House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health on the Medicare Advantage program.