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Gloria J. Bazzoli, Ph.D. is the Bon Secours Professor of Health Administration with the Department of Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University. She conducts quantitative and qualitative research on US hospital operations and the financing and functioning of hospital markets. She has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Services Research, Health Affairs, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Medical Care Research and Review, and Inquiry. Dr. Bazzoli has been a lead investigator in various research projects, including studies of financial pressures affecting the hospital safety net, relationships between hospital financial condition and the quality of hospital care, and the effects of hospital mergers and closures on health care markets and consumers. She has also examined changes in the US hospital industry through her work with the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington, DC. Dr. Bazzoli also currently serves as editor-in-chief for the journal Medical Care Research and Review. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University and her B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana.