Pinar Karaca-Mandic

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Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Citizenship Turkey
United States
Alma mater University of California at Berkeley
Swarthmore College
Armand Hammer United World College of the American West
Spouse Vuk Mandic
Children3
Scientific career
Fields health economics
Institutions Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
RAND Corporation
Website https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty/pinar-karaca-mandic

Pinar Karaca-Mandic is an American economist who is C. Arthur Williams Jr. Professor in Healthcare Risk Management and Academic Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management [1] and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). [2] She was previously on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and an economist for the RAND Corporation. [3]

Her research before 2020 focused on the adaptation of medical technology and health insurance markets. [2]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has co-led a team of researchers collecting and publishing data on hospital capacity and COVID-19 hospitalization rates in the United States. [4] This team has documented racial disparities in COVID-19 hospitalizations, [5] as well as the relationship between the number of hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients and the death rate from COVID-19. [6]

A native of Turkey, she has been active in raising funds to assist Refugees of the Syrian Civil War in Turkey. [7]

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