Bruce Stuart, Ph.D. 
Professor and Executive Director
Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Bruce Stuart received his economics training at Whitman College and Washington State University. 

Dr. Stuart is an economist and health services researcher.  He began his career in health services research as an economic analyst and later Director of the Health Research Division in the Michigan Medicaid program in the early 1970s. Leaving state government for academe, Dr. Stuart taught health economics, finance, and research methods at the University of Massachusetts and The Pennsylvania State University.  In 1997 he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland’s School of Pharmacy as the Parke-Davis endowed Chair in Geriatric Pharmacotherapy and was selected as a Maryland Eminent Scholar for his work in geriatric drug use.

Dr. Stuart is an experienced research investigator having directed over 30 grants and contracts with the National Institute on Aging, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in DHHS, private foundations, state governments, and private corporations.  Among his recently completed projects are a study of inappropriate use of prescribed medicines by elderly Medicare beneficiaries for the Commonwealth Fund, an analysis of cost differences between demented and non-demented nursing home residents for NIA, and a contract for CMS using MCBS data to evaluate the predictability of prescription drug spending for Medicare beneficiaries and to assess the impact of drug coverage on Medicare Part A and B spending. His current research includes grants from the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation both of which use MCBS data to evaluate policy implications of the new Medicare Part D drug benefit.