Genevieve P. Kanter, PhD


Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
Health Economics, Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Genevieve P. Kanter is an economist whose research focuses on pharmaceutical and medical device policy; physician behavior and decision-making; and empirical ethics, particularly physician-industry relationships and conflicts of interest in medicine. Methodologically, she specializes in statistical methods used for causal inference. She is a Research Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine. Prior to joining Penn, she was on the faculty of the University of Colorado and Drexel University and held research fellowship appointments at Harvard University and at Princeton University. She holds a PhD in Economics and in Sociology from the University of Chicago.