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Dr. Tetsuji Yamada is currently a professor of Health Economics for the Department of Economics, an Associate Faculty for the Graduate Faculty of M.A. and Ph.D. programs for the Department of Childhood Studies. He has taught Health Economics and Health Care, Economics of Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Care Finance, Cost-benefit Analysis, Pharmaceutical Economics, and Managerial Economics at Rutgers. Dr. Yamada is also a researcher for the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Comparative Health Policy Program, Stanford University. In addition, he is an Invited Research Scholar for Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan, and is a Research Scholar for Hosei Institute on Aging, Hosei University in Japan. Previously, Dr. Yamada was an Associate Professor for the Department of Economics of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. He taught microeconomics and seminars for undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. He earned his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Health Economics from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York; M.I.A. in International Affairs and Public Policies from Columbia University; and B.A. in Economics from Toyo University in Japan.