Stanley Stewart Wallack, 74

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Stanley Wallack, loving husband and father, died on Oct. 7 in Providence after a year-long illness. An economist, professor, entrepreneur and nationally-known expert on health policy issues, Dr. Wallack was executive director and co-founder of the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy at Brandeis University.

Stanley Stewart Wallack was born Sept. 6, 1941, in Boston, the son of Maxwell and Rose (Doxer) Wallack. He graduated in 1950 from Newton High School. He received his B.A. degree in 1964 from Antioch College and his Ph.D. in 1967 from Washington University.

After graduate school, he served as an Economic Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He went on to work for the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare and then the Congressional Budget Office.

For the past 36 years, Wallack taught at and served as executive director of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.  He taught graduate students in health economics, national health policy and health care financing.

Wallack founded two companies during his career, Health Data Institute, specializing in health data analytics, and LifePlans, specializing in long-term care benefit management. He also served as chairman of the board and CEO of Relational Coordination Analytics.

He conducted health services research over the past 45 years on a wide range of topics related to acute and chronic health care. Much of his research was dedicated to analyzing problems in financing and delivery of health care and developing innovative solutions that became the industry standard including Health Maintenance Organizations and later Accountable Care Organizations. He did research on the development of comprehensive programs for insuring long-term care.

At the time of his death Wallack’s research focused on improving the alignment of health care organizations and physicians and developing efficiencies in health care delivery through improved care coordin

He enjoyed collecting art, betting on racehorses and sitting at the beach. He was a member and former board member of United Brothers Synagogue in Bristol.

He is survived by his wife, Anya Rader Wallack, and son Jacob Wallack of Providence; a son Mathew Wallack, daughter-in-law Diana and grandson Ajay, of Raleigh, N.C.; a son Seth Wallack of San Diego, Calif.; a son, Reuven Wallack, of Yucca Valley, Calif.; and a son Aaron Wallack, of Natick, Mass.  His sister, Irene DuPont, predeceased him.

Donations in his name may be made to the Heller School at Brandeis University or the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration.