Wendy B. Max is a

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of Health Economics and the director of the

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in the School of

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at the

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. Her focus is on the cost of illness and she has done important work on the cost of smoking-related illness. A native of Summit, New Jersey, Wendy was an undergraduate at

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. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in economics at the

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. She currently lives in Palo Alto, California with her husband and three sons. Prominent publications include: 2004 Froelicher ES, Sohn M, Max W, Bacchetti P. Women's initiative for nonsmoking VII: Evaluation of health service utilization and costs among women smokers with cardiovascular disease. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation 2004; 24: 218–228. 2004 Max W, Rice DP, Finkelstein E, Bardwell RA, Leadbetter MS. The economic toll of

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against women in the United States, 1995. Violence and Victims 19(3): 259–72. 2004 Max W, Rice DP, Sung H-Y, Zhang X, Miller L. The economic burden of smoking in California. Tobacco Control 2004; 13: 264–67.

External links

The Institute for Health and Aging Official Web Site
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