Lorens Helmchen Email & Phone Number

Lorens Helmchen, PhD, is a tenured Associate Professor at The George Washington University, where he teaches graduate courses in health economics and predictive analytics.As a health economist, Lorens studies innovation in provider payment, health insurance benefit design, personalized medicine, and the evaluation of physician performance. His research has been published in leading health economics, health policy, and medical journals and featured on National Public Radio, in the New York Times, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. His research has been supported by philanthropic foundations, government agencies, and health care organizations.As an educator, Lorens has focused on developing engaging online resources for learners who are curious about statistics, data science, and analytics. He has created web-based software that computes key statistics and visualizes them instantly -- without asking users to download specialized software or to spend hours learning arcane technical terms and remembering cryptic, complicated commands. Most recently, he built a 10-week online course on predictive analytics for health care providers, which combines rigorous training in the field’s methods with practical applications to emerging opportunities in health care delivery.Lorens holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He earned a master's degree in economics from Humboldt University, Berlin, and was a visiting graduate student at ENSAE, Paris, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is fluent in English, German, and Spanish and proficient in French.

Listed skills include Econometrics, Health Policy, Statistics, Data Analysis, and 15 others.