Duke-Margolis Faculty
Core Faculty Members

Nancy Allen LaPointe
Faculty Fellow, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Margolis Core Faculty
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine Faculty

Brian Antono, M.D., MPH
Medical Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Margolis Core Faculty

Deepshikha Charan Ashana, MD, MBA, MS
Margolis Core Faculty
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Duke University

Gary Bennett, PhD
Bishop-McDermott Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Margolis Core Faculty

Nathan Boucher, DrPH
Faculty Director, Health Policy Undergraduate Certificate
Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Margolis Core Faculty

Don Bradley, MD
Consulting Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine
Margolis Core Faculty

Tyson Brown, PhD
Faculty Executive Committee
WLF Associate Professor of Sociology
Margolis Core Faculty
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Kate Bundorf, Ph.D.
Faculty Director of the Margolis Scholars Program
Margolis Core Faculty
J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management Sanford School of Public Policy
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Hilary A. Campbell, PharmD, JD
Area Lead for Institutional Research and Analytics
Margolis Core Faculty
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Rushina Cholera, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences
Medical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics
2020 Intern Mentor
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Margolis Core Faculty

Jeffrey Clough, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Margolis Core Faculty

Lesley Curtis, PhD
Chair and Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Michelle Franklin, PhD
Margolis Core Faculty
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Michael Frakes, JD, PhD
Professor of Law
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Ziad Gellad, MD, MPH, AGAF
Associate Professor of Medicine
Margolis Core Faculty

Elizabeth Joanne Gifford, PhD
Faculty Director of the new Bass Connections Health Policy and Innovation Theme
Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Christine Goertz, DC, PhD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

Kamal Golla, MD, MPH
Core Faculty

Bradi Granger, PhD
Professor of Nursing
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Mentor Intern
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Marianne Hamilton Lopez, PhD, MPA
Senior Research Director, Biomedical Innovation
Faculty Director of the Duke-Margolis Postdoctoral Associates & Affiliated Fellows Program
Adjunct Associate Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty

Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS
Vice Dean and Executive Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute
Vice Dean for Clinical Research, School of Medicine
Margolis Exective Core Faculty

Anna Hung, PharmD, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH
Mary and Deryl Hart Distinguished Professor of Surgery, in the School of Medicine Vice Chair of Research
Surgical Oncologist
Margolis Core Faculty
Chief, Section of Breast Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Professor of Radiology

Brystana Kaufman, MSPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Deborah Kaye, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

Shivanand Lad, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Margolis Core Faculty

Monica Lemmon, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Trevor Lentz, PhD
Assistant Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

Herbert Kim Lyerly, MD
George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

Matthew Maciejewski, PhD
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Gary Ross Maslow, MD
Margolis Core Faculty
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Co-Director of Child and Family Mental Health and Developmental Neurosci
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing

Richard Mather III, MD, MBA (Chad)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Director of the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Robert J. Margolis, MD, Professor of Business, Medicine and Policy
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Aaron McKethan, PhD
Senior Policy Fellow
Adjunct Professor of Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Michael Merson, MD
Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health and the Director, SingHealth Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Global Health Institute
Margolis Core Faculty

Evan Myers, MD, MPH
Walter L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine
Margolis Core Faculty

Emily O'Brien, PhD
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Osondu Ogbuoji, MBBS, MPH
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Steven Patierno, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Community & Family Medicine, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Margolis Core Faculty

Christian Péan, MD
Margolis Core Faculty
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Clinical Sciences Department

Michael Pignone, MD, MPH
Faculty Director for Primary Care Transformation and Innovation
Margolis Core Faculty
Faculty Executive Committee
Chair of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Dell Medical School

Janet Prvu Bettger
Adjunct Associate in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Core Faculty Member

John Purakal, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
Faculty Affiliate, Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity
Margolis Core Faculty

Arti K. Rai, JD
Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law
Margolis Core Faculty

Nimmi Ramanujam, PhD
Robert W. Carr, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Margolis Core Faculty

Shelby Reed, PhD, RPh
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Eric S. Richardson, PhD
Faculty Executive Committee
Professor of Practice in Biomedical Engineering
Founding Director, Duke Design Health
Margolis Core Faculty
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Barak Richman, PhD
Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law
2020 Intern Mentor

David Ridley, PhD
Professor of the Practice of Business and Economics
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Whitney Robinson, Ph.D.
Margolis Core Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School

Gillian Sanders Schmidler, PhD
Deputy Director, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Professor of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Devdutta Sangvai, MD, MBA
Faculty Director of the Margolis Summer Experience
Margolis Core Faculty
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
Professor, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry
Duke SOM Professor, Program in Education
2020 Intern Mentor
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Robert Saunders, PhD
Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Executive Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty

Beth Shaz
Professor of Pathology
Deputy Director of the Marcus Center for Cellular Cures
Margolis Core Faculty

Megan Shepherd-Banigan, PhD
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Mina Silberberg, PhD
Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Margolis Core Faculty

Christina Silcox, PhD
Research Director, Digital Health
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty

Caroline Sloan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
Frank Sloan, PhD
J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management

Laura Smart Richman
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Corinna Sorenson, PhD, MHSA, MPH
Faculty Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Senior Advisor and Founding Director, Margolis Scholars Program
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences and Public Policy
Margolis Core Faculty
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Nina Sperber, PhD
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Jonas Swartz, MD, MPH
Core Faculty Member
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Women’s Community and Population Health Division

Donald H. Taylor, PhD, MPP
Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Peter Ubel, MD
Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor
Margolis Core Faculty

Krishna Udayakumar, MD, MBA
Director of Post-Graduate Education Initiatives, Margolis Center
Associate Professor of Global Health and Medicine
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Courtney Van Houtven, PhD
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Sreekanth Vemulapalli, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Margolis Core Faculty

Michael (Buz) Waitzkin, JD
Faculty Director of Education Special Projects
Bass Connections COVID-19 Theme Faculty Lead
Margolis Core Faculty
Deputy Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society

Virginia Wang, PhD
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Eugene Washington, MD, MPH, MSc
Margolis Core Faculty
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University's School of Medicine

Frank Wharam
Margolis Core Faculty
Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine

Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH
Research Director, North Carolina Health Care Transformation
Core Faculty Member
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH
Hymowitz Professor of the Practice of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Yousuf Zafar, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Oncology
Margolis Core Faculty

Jonathan Zhang, PhD
Margolis Core Faculty
Assistant Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty Members

Alexander Allori, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

Hayden Bosworth, PhD
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

Preyas Desai, PhD
Spencer Hassell Professor of Business Administration
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

Tong Guo, PhD
Margolis Affiliated Faculty
Assistant Professor in Marketing
Appointment in Department of Economics

David Hoffman
Professor of the Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

F. Reed Johnson, PhD
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

David McAdams, PhD
Professor of Business Administration
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

Ryan McDevitt, PhD
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Margolis Affiliated Faculty
Angelo Milazzo, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

Jay Pearson, MPH, Ph.D.
Margolis Affiliated Faculty
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Global Health

Jerry Reiter, PhD
Professor in the Department of Statistical Science
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

Charles Scales, MD
Associate Dean for Clinical Research Initiatives
Associate Professor of Surgery
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

Paula Tanabe, PhD
Laurel Chadwick Distinguished Professor of Nursing
Margolis Affiliated Faculty
Margolis Faculty Network as of November 2024