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Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD
Vice President, Consulting and Applied Research
Dr. Ron Goetzel is a nationally recognized expert in health and productivity management, data analysis, and applied research and has led numerous projects to document the health and productivity cost burden of disease conditions and return on investment for health management programs.
Dr. Goetzel wears two hats – he is vice president of consulting and applied research for Thomson Reuters as well as the director of the Emory University Institute for Health and Productivity Studies. Dr. Goetzel’s areas of expertise include health management and disease prevention, healthcare data analysis, outcomes research, and managed care. Over the past 20 years, his work has focused on large-scale evaluations of health promotion, disease prevention, and disease management programs. He is principal investigator for Medicare’s Senior Risk Reduction Demonstration (SRRD) and New Opportunities for Healthy Aging in Medicare (NOHAM) project. He is also principal investigator for a project sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) focused on obesity prevention and management at the worksite. For the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Goetzel is the principal investigator for a New York City-based project supporting collaboration between the private and public sectors in health promotion and disease prevention initiatives directed at employers.
Before joining Thomson Reuters, Dr. Goetzel served as vice president of Assessment, Data Analysis, and Evaluation Services at Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems. He was also one of the original members of the core development and marketing group at Corporate Health Strategies, currently a division of Ingenix.
Dr. Goetzel earned his doctorate in Organizational and Administrative Studies and his master’s in applied Social Psychology from New York University, and his bachelor’s of science degree in Psychology from the City College of New York.
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