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Public Affairs/Legal Dr. Gruber has forty years of an on-going interest in public affairs, government science policy and legal issues. His most recent consulting and research in public affairs and legal issues is focused on health reform and the related issue of medical malpractice. He was the chief information officer of the Risk Management Foundation (RMF) of the Harvard Medical Institutions (malpractice insurance company for the Harvard-affiliated hospitals and physicians). One of the systems developed by RMF when he was CIO was an executive information system for the analysis of claims data to determine trends and comparative performance by hospital in order to guide loss prevention programs.Dr. Gruber consulted with four of the country’s largest industry associations. One of these assignments included the planning of a system for the coordination of public and regulatory affairs among the industry association's fifty state offices. A second major assignment included a study of the process of hearings in a Senate subcommittee that was headed by a strong anti-industry chairman. His twenty-five years of consulting with Pfizer included a number of assignments in corporate public affairs. When AT&T, Citibank, Chase, and Pfizer funded a program to improve the financial viability of New York City, Dr. Gruber assisted in this program. He has served as an economic expert on three antitrust litigations. He was a graduate assistant for Professor Maurice Adelman, then one of MIT’s foremost experts on industrial organization. His research and teaching on government science policy included a doctoral seminar that he co-taught with Professor Robert Wood, who was then chairman of the MIT Political Science Department. He was the chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting session on the Research Scientist-Advisor in Government Science Policy. He was the principal investigator on an MIT project on A Multi-Attribute Utility Function for the Funding of Government Research and Development. When the Clinton administration was planning the National Information Infrastructure (NII), Dr. Gruber was responsible for the research on how telemedicine would ride on the NII. Dr. Gruber’s publications on technology and international trade have been widely cited in the literature. He served as an advisor for the Atlantic Institute program on European technology policy and presented a number of papers in Europe on this subject. He has given several talks and has two publications on the management of corporate public affairs, including one co-authored with the vice president of the Public Affairs Council. "Using Computers in Corporate Public Affairs," Public Relations Review, 1982. "The New Management in Corporate Public Affairs," Public Affairs Review, 1980.
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