Hoangmai Pham, MD, MPH Appointed Senior Policy Fellow

Hoangmai (Mai) Pham, MD, MPH joined the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy on January 3, 2017 as a Senior Policy Fellow.  She will work closely with Duke-Margolis faculty and staff on research and nationwide collaborations focused on transforming healthcare delivery and payment reform.

“Dr. Pham is a leading innovator with unique experience working with the public and private sectors to transform care and reduce costs,” said Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, Duke-Margolis’ director. “It is a pivotal time for developing and refining innovative health care payment and delivery models helping clinicians and patients improve care and lower costs, and an exciting time to be working with partners in the academic, clinical, and policy communities.  Dr. Pham’s expertise in leading change will be a huge asset as we seek to improve health and health care.”

Dr. Pham is a general internist who provided primary care at safety net organizations for many years.  Prior to joining Duke-Margolis, she served as Chief Innovation Officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), where she was responsible for implementation of the alternative payment model provisions of the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), and other cross-cutting initiatives for the Center. Dr. Pham was previously Director of the Seamless Care Models Group in CMMI, where she oversaw the design and testing of models on accountable care organizations and advanced primary care, including the Pioneer and Next Generation ACO Models, Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, and Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative. Before coming to CMS, Dr. Pham was Senior Health Researcher and Co-Director of Research at the Center for Studying Health System Change and Mathematica. She has published extensively on care fragmentation and coordination, quality reporting and improvement, health disparities, and provider market trends, and the intersection of each of these with payment policy.