Duke-Margolis Faculty
Core Faculty Members

Deepshikha Charan Ashana, MD, MBA, MS
Core Faculty Member
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

Janet Prvu Bettger, ScD, FAHA
Director of Undergraduate Education and Research Initiatives, Margolis Center
Margolis Core Faculty
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
2020 Intern Mentor
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Nathan Boucher, DrPH
Associate Professor
Margolis Core Faculty

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

Kate Bundorf, Ph.D.
J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management Sanford School of Public Policy
Core Faculty Member

Rushina Cholera, MD
Medical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics
2020 Intern Mentor
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

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

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
Associate 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

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

Marianne Hamilton Lopez, PhD, MPA
Senior Research Director, Biomedical Innovation
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

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 Member

Deborah Kaye, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

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

Michel Landry, PT, MBA, PhD
Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke University, School of Medicine
Core Faculty Member

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

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

Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC
Fred Cobb Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Margolis Core Faculty

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

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

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

David Ridley, PhD
Dr. and Mrs. Frank A. Riddick Professor of the Practice of Business Administration
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

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

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

Devdutta Sangvai, MD, MBA
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
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty

Megan Shepherd-Banigan, PhD
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
Core Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy

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
Frank Sloan, PhD
J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management

Laura Smart Richman
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences

Corinna Sorenson, PhD
Director of Graduate Education Initiatives and the Margolis Scholars Program
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

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

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

Andrea Thoumi, MPP, MSc
Health Equity Policy Fellow
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Core Faculty Member
Adjunct Assistant Professor
2020 Intern Mentor

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
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

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

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

Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH
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
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
Assistant Professor in Marketing
Appointment in Department of Economics

David Hoffman
Professor of the Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy

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
Affiliated Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis

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

Ann Marie Navar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

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

Charles Scales, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

Paula Tanabe, PhD
Laurel Chadwick Distinguished Professor of Nursing
Margolis Affiliated Faculty
Barbara Katherine Swartz
Visiting Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Margolis Faculty Network August 2020