Rick Mayes is an associate professor in the University of Richmond’s department of political science, and a faculty research fellow at the Petris Center on Healthcare Markets and Consumer Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2000 and a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral traineeship at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health from 2000 to 2002. In the early 1990s, he worked on Medicaid policy in the White House for George Bush, Sr., and thereafter on health insurance and Medicare policy at the AARP during the Clinton administration. He is a graduate of the University of Richmond (B.A., 1991).
 
His writings have appeared in: Health Affairs, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, the Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences, the Journal of Policy History, the Journal of Health Law, the Journal of Health Care Law & Policy, the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Health Economics, Policy and Law, the History of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology News, Health Law Review, Applied Health Economics & Health Policy, Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety, the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, and the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy.

He is the author of Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance (University of Michigan Press, 2nd edition, 2004), co-author of Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) with Robert Berenson, M.D., Senior Fellow in Health Policy at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., and co-author of Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health (Harvard University Press, 2009) with fellow University of Richmond professors Catherine Bagwell and Jennifer Erkulwater.

His most enjoyable and rewarding professional experiences have involved taking groups of University of Richmond students to Peru, the Dominican Republic and Appalachia on health care research and community service trips.

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