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Dr. Thomas Ashley
Life/Health Chief Medical Director - North America, Stamford
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Thomas Ashley, MD, FACP, is Senior VP, Chief Medical Director for Gen Re’s North America Life & Health division. Tom oversees medical research and development, manages medical consultation on facultative cases, and ensures ongoing maintenance of and updates to the Gen Re SOURCE underwriting manuals for Individual Life, Individual Disability Income, and Critical Illness. Tom is a member of the ACLI Risk Classification Committee, and he currently serves on the faculty of American Academy of Insurance Medicine Basic Mortality Methodology Course.
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How Data Science Is Redefining the Medical Director’s Role
By Dr. Thomas Ashley and Jean-Marc Fix Apr 20, 2021English
Data analytics projects have become increasingly common across the insurance industry in the last few years and have really taken off in the Life sector. It’s a trend that requires the input of Medical Directors - and it gives the Directors a chance to...
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The Impact of Vaping on Life Insurance Risk [Part 3 of series]
By Dr. Thomas Ashley Jul 21, 2020English
Putting together the health effects of nicotine and the chemical components of regular commercial e-cigarette inhalants leads to a conclusion that the risk is small but not trivial. Given that we need a long-term assessment, yet have only short-term experience,...
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Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes [Part 2 of series]
By Dr. Thomas Ashley Jul 08, 2020English
In my first blog in my series on vaping, I described the characteristics of the large, global vaping population. Life insurers care most about the health consequences of e-cigarettes. This segment will touch on several aspects of this concern. The common...
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The Demographics of E-Cigarette Users
By Dr. Thomas Ashley Jul 01, 2020English
The use of e-cigarettes and vaping continues to be a novel phenomena affecting our business. Vaping is the use of an inhalant apparatus to deliver nicotine without combustion of tobacco products, also known as electronic nicotine delivery systems, or...
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