Session: 40

Health

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Yair M. Babad, was born in Israel, served in the Israeli army, and received from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Diploma in Actuary. After working as a pension fund and life insurance actuary for three years, he came in 1969 to Cornell University to pursue a Ph.D. in Management Science. In 1973 he joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago, and in 1977 joined Arthur Andersen & Co. as a senior software development manager. Since 1981 he is a Professor of Information Systems in the College of Business of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was the founding director of the Center for Research in Information Management and an associate dean. From mid-1995 until 1998 he was in Israel, where he established an actuarial consulting practice, and was a visiting professor, director of the Erhard Insurance Research Center, and the head of the Insurance Program at the Recanatti Graduate School of Management of Tel-Aviv University. Professor Babad is an active actuarial and MIS consultant. 
Professor Babad published many articles in leading journals, and is active as a teacher and consultant in information systems and strategic planning, information security, EDP auditing, accounting systems, health insurance practice and policy, and actuarial practice and mathematics. Professor Babad is an active member of several professional organizations, in the information systems, management science, actuarial and accounting areas.

Yair M. Babad, PhD, CPA, FILAA, Professor, Department of Information and Decision Sciences, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan, CHicago, IL 60670. Tel: 847-492-1272, fax: 847-492-1286, cellular: 847-809-0487, e-mail: ybabad@uic.edu

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