Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD, is Founders Chair of General Internal Medicine & Professor of Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University Of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and of Health Care Management and Economics at the Wharton School. She is the former Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and a practicing physician at the Philadelphia VA. Over the last 20 years, Dr. Werner has built a foundational research program examining the effects of health care policies an payment on health care delivery and patient outcomes. This research has revealed the many intended and unintended effects of quality improvement incentives, and was among the first to recognize that public reporting of quality information may worsen racial disparities. She is a Core Investigator with the VA HSR&D Center for Healthcare Evaluation, Research, and Promotion (CHERP). She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Alice Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the American Federation of Medical Research (AFMR) Outstanding Investigator Award. Dr. Werner is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.