Dr. Soeren Mattke is a Research Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for Improving Chronic Illness Care at the University of Southern California. The Center focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of innovative approaches to organizing, financing and delivering care for chronic conditions, in particular those that are commercially sustainable. A current focus of the work is a research program to prepare health systems worldwide for the advent of a disease-modifying Alzheimer's treatment. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Mattke was a Senior Scientist at RAND Health, where he led the private sector healthcare practice, and worked at the OECD in Paris on benchmarking healthcare systems in industrialized countries, in the healthcare practice of Bain & Company in Boston, at Abt Associates, a policy consulting firm in Cambridge, MA, and at Harvard University. He trained as an internist and cardiologist at the University of Munich and got his doctoral degree in health policy at Harvard.