One Saturday morning in October of 2018, an anti-Semite stormed Shabbat services at a synagogue in Squirrel Hill carrying a Colt AR-15 and multiple pistols. Over the next 20 minutes, he killed 11 and injured 7 more. It was the worst mass shooting in Pennsylvania history. Marty Gaynor barely survived and talks about what it would take to prevent more of these tragedies.
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Martin Gaynor is the E.J. Barone University Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and former Director of the Bureau of Economics at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Professor Gaynor’s research focuses on competition and incentives in health care, and on antitrust policy.
He is one of the founders of the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent non-partisan nonprofit dedicated to advancing knowledge about U.S. health care spending, and served as the first Chair of its governing board. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an International Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon Dr. Gaynor held faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins and a number of other universities.