Kevin Pflum, PhD

Kevin Pflum is an economic and testifying expert specializing in healthcare and life sciences, helping clients tackle mergers, monopolization, and regulatory challenges.

Kevin Pflum has over 12 years of experience specializing in industrial organization and competition economics, with a focus on the healthcare industry. His expertise includes conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, including analyzing the competitive effects of consolidation, monopolization, and monopsonization. He has worked on merger cases that involve state and federal government agency oversight and has been retained as an expert on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, the Rhode Island Attorney General, and various private firms. He has also performed extensive research in industrial organization and has published in multiple top journals, including AEJ: Policy, the RAND Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. In addition to his extensive experience with the healthcare sector, Kevin has also performed economic analyses for a variety of industries including cable TV, building materials, software, and airlines.

Prior to joining Bates White, Kevin was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Alabama, where he taught graduate courses in industrial organization and managerial economics as well as undergraduate courses in principles of microeconomics.