William M. Sage

William M. Sage, M.D., J.D., is an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University, where he teaches
courses in health law, regulatory policy, and professionalism. His areas of expertise are managed care,
health care information, antitrust, medical malpractice, insurance coverage determinations, and the
regulation of health care professionals. His current projects include analyzing mandatory disclosure laws in
health care, adapting insurance coverage law to managed care, assessing physicians’ professional
competence to serve as “patient advocates,” and formulating a competition policy for health care that
accounts for quality and other non-price considerations. In connection with the last project, Sage received a
1998 Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Sage is a
member of the editorial board of Health Affairs and serves as a peer reviewer for several clinical and policy
journals.

Sage received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1982 and his medical and law degrees from Stanford
University in 1988. He completed internship at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in San Diego and served
as a resident in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Prior to joining the
Columbia faculty, he practiced health care and general corporate law at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles
and, in 1993, served on the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform. November 2000