Katie Gudiksen, Ph.D., is the Executive Editor for The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition. Dr. Gudiksen is an expert in healthcare reform and the drivers of healthcare costs, with a special interest in market consolidation and state policies to address market power. She has helped draft model legislation to improve state merger review processes and to prohibit anticompetitive terms in contracts between insurers and health systems. Her current work focuses on evaluating options states have to restrict excessive provider prices, including cost-growth benchmarks and state public options. Her past scholarship evaluated legal challenges to state laws aimed to improve affordability of pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Gudiksen is a graduate of the UCSF/UC Hastings Master of Science in Health Policy and Law program, where she studied policy solutions to promote competition in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining The Source, she co-founded a cancer diagnostics start-up company and worked as Director of Technology where she developed technologies to detect biomarker signatures for aggressive prostate cancer. She also holds an A.M. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University and a B.S. and B.A. from Hope College.