Richard M. Scheffler, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy, Graduate Schools of Public Health and Goldman School of Public Policy;, Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, UC Berkeley
Richard M. Scheffler is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the School of Public Health and the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. He serves as the Director of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare. In 2019, he was appointed by Governor Newsom to the Healthy California Commission. Scheffler has published over 200 papers and edited and written twelve books, including the Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award-winning The ADHD Explosion and Today's Push for Performance: Myths, Medication, and Money with Stephen Hinshaw. He received the Fulbright Scholarship at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; the Chair of Excellence Award at the Carlos III University of Madrid in 2012 through 2013; the Gold Medal from Charles University in 2015; and the Berkeley Citation in 2018.