Before joining the university faculty, Dr. Baughman was as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Baughman joined CBO's Health and Human Resources Division in the midst of the health care policy debate of 2009 and 2010, and she soon became an important member of the health team. Her work was key in collecting and evaluating evidence and helping CBO to develop cost estimates for provisions of law relating to medical malpractice reform and the regulation of private health insurance markets. A coauthor of three letters to Members of Congress explaining the estimates, Dr. Baughman also worked with staff from several CBO divisions on a large project aimed at estimating the health and longevity effects of various government policies.