Louis Rossiter, Ph.D.

Louis F. Rossiter is Director of Research at The Center for Excellence in Aging and Geriatric Health and senior research fellow for the Center for Public Policy Research at the College of William and Mary.

For 18 years, Dr. Rossiter taught health economics in graduate programs at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the founding director of the David G. Williamson, Jr. Institute for Health Studies at VCU, has previously served as Virginia’s Secretary of Health and Human Resources and during the Bush administration served as policy deputy for the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration.

Dr. Rossiter has published more than 50 articles, edited 14 books and serves on the boards of four Virginia health care companies and published a 2001 book, Medicare Managed Care, which concerns changes that will allow beneficiaries to choose private health care plans.

He has served on a large number of federal and state technical advisory panels; as consultant to a variety of prestigious non-profit and for profit corporations, including Merck and Co. and Kaiser Permanente Health Plans.

Dr. Rossiter received his B.A. from Lenoir-Rhyne College, his M.A. in economics from the University of South Carolina, Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.