2022-Gala Program Online Honoree -4.14.2022

HONOREE
ANNE A. SCITOVSKY ’37, MA +
National Academy of Medicine
Anne Scitovsky was chief of the Health Economics
Division at the Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation,
where she worked for over 30 years. In addition to
her degree from Barnard, she studied at the London
School of Economics and earned a master’s degree
in economics from Columbia in 1941.
Ms. Scitovsky was nationally recognized for careful patient-by-patient
analysis of cost and treatment patterns, decision points, and long-term
trends in healthcare; her research impacted both public and private
healthcare policies. She published extensively in the area of health
economics, including papers for the US Department of Health and Human
Services. Her most recent work focused on the demand for physician’s
services and the cost of medical care.
Ms. Scitovsky was appointed to the President’s Commission for the Study
of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
in 1979. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine (now the National
Academy of Medicine), served on the faculty of the University of California,
San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies, and was a member of
many national committees on medical care costs.
Ms. Scitovsky passed away in 2012.
+ Indicates deceased