Michael R. Richards, MD, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor within the Department of Economics and Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. He joined Baylor after being a member of the Vanderbilt University Department of Health Policy faculty from 2015-2018. His previous academic training included a University of Pennsylvania postdoctoral research position within the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Wharton School from 2013-2015. Richards completed his PhD in health economics and health policy at Yale University prior to joining LDI and was awarded his MD and MPH degrees from the University of Illinois immediately preceding his time at Yale. He has several areas of active research including, provider responses to regulatory and payment changes as well as the behavior of private and public health insurers. He primarily teaches in the Robbins Health Care MBA program at Baylor.