Silicon Valley Taiwanese American Industrial Technology Association
矽谷台美產業科技協會
Silicon Valley Taiwanese American Industrial Technology Association
矽谷台美產業科技協會
TAITA 2010 CONFERENCE SPEAKER BIO
The Next Health Care Reform for Taiwan and USA

Speaker: Prof. William Hsiao
Harvard University
Prof. William Hsiao is the K.T. Li Professor of Economics and leads a new program in health systems studies at the Harvard University. Hsiao received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He is also a fully qualified actuary with extensive experience in private and social insurance.

Hsiao has conducted national health system reforms for more than two decades. He led the team that designed the Taiwan’s national health insurance. Hsiao has been actively engaged in designing health system reforms and universal health insurance programs for many countries, including the USA, Taiwan, China, Colombia, Poland, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Sweden, Cyprus, Uganda and South Africa. He developed an analytical model that can diagnose the causes for the successes or failures of national health systems. His analytical framework has shaped how we conceptualize health systems, and has been used extensive by various nations around the world in health system reforms. Meanwhile, Hsiao tests his model by conducting large scale social experiments in several developing nations, including China.

Hsiao was elected to be a member of the Institute of Medicine, US National Academy of Science. He was also elected to serve on the Board of Directors, National Academy of Social Insurance. Hsiao was named the Man of the Year in Medicine in 1989 for his development of a new payment method (the resource-based relative values) for physician services. He served on the boards of many community organizations including hospitals.

He has published more than 170 papers and several books and served on several editorial boards of professional journals. Hsiao served as an advisor to three US presidents, US Congress, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, and International Labor Organization. He is a recipient of honorary professorships from several leading Chinese universities and several awards from his profession.