Margolis Interns

Margolis Interns


2023 Summer Interns

Margolis Summer Experience

Alexa Fahrer

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Andrew Owens

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Anna Tharakan

2023 Margolis Intern

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Aubteen Pour-Biazar

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Audrey Landstreet

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Claire Hollowell

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Emily Zhen

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Evon Thompson

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Gracie Blackburn

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Jieyu Zhang

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Matthew Nuzzolo

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Neha Shaw

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Pearl Teiko

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Remi Shendell

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Sai Rachakonda, BA '24

Margolis Scholar
2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Talia West

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Oluwatumilara (Tumi) Akeke

2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Velda Wang

2023 Margolis Intern

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Vibhav Nandagiri, BA '25

Margolis Scholar
2023 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

You (Lucine) Wu

2023 Margolis Intern

2022 Summer Interns

Margolis Summer Experience

Alexandra Wynn

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Amanda He

2022 Margolis Intern

Amy Labrador

Amy Labrador

2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Aneesh Karuppur

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Anika Vemulapalli

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Anna Zolotor

2022 Margolis Intern

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Breanna Barrett, BA '25

2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

Margolis Summer Experience

Catherine Serianni

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Cathy Xiang

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Charles Drucker

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Chinmay Amin

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Dana Guggenheim

2020 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

Margolis Summer Experience

Devan Desai, BA/BS '23

Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern

Elizabeth Kayzman

Elizabeth Kayzman

2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Francisco Banda

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Haley Cionfolo

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Ishaan Brar

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Joan Navarro

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Jonathan Barber

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Juliana Shank

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Karina Vasudeva

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Ayokunmi Ojo

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Lauren Caton

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Maya Thieme

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Meera Patel

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Meyra Çoban

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Mohini Johri

2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Nisha Kumar

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Noah Evenson

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Payton Little

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Pranav Tadikonda

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Preeyanko Rao

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Riya Mohan, BA '24

2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

Ro

Ro Huang, BA '24

2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

Margolis Summer Experience

Samantha Murrell

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Sarah Barnes

2022 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Shamar Wilson

2022 Margolis Intern

2022 Summer Intern Mentors

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Andrea Thoumi, MPP, MSc

Area Lead, Community Health and Equity
Faculty Director of Health Equity Educational Programming
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Core Faculty Member
Adjunct Assistant Professor
2020 Intern Mentor

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Anna Hung, PharmD, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor, Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Barak Richman

Barak Richman, PhD

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

Dr. Beth Shaz

Beth Shaz

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

Charlene Wong

Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Christine Goertz

Christine Goertz, DC, PhD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

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Deepshikha Charan Ashana, MD, MBA, MS

Margolis Core Faculty
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Duke University

Dev Sangvai

Devdutta Sangvai, MD, MBA

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

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Dure Kim, PharmD

Assistant Research Director

Gavin Yamey

Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH

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

Gillian Schmidler

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

Kim Lyerly

Herbert Kim Lyerly, MD

George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith

Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith, MPAff

Assistant Research Director

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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

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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

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Megan Shepherd-Banigan, PhD

Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Michael Frakes

Michael Frakes, JD, PhD

Professor of Law
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Mina Silberberg

Mina Silberberg, PhD

Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Margolis Core Faculty

Nina Sperber

Nina Sperber, PhD

Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

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Nitzan Arad, LLM

Assistant Research Director

Osondu Ogbuoji

Osondu Ogbuoji, MBBS, MPH

Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

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Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc, MSc, MA

Research Director
Senior Team Member

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Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH

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

Robert Saunders

Robert Saunders, PhD

Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty

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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

Steven Patierno

Steven Patierno, PhD

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

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Tiffany Chan, MS

Senior Program Coordinator -Summer Experience, Margolis Scholars

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William K. Bleser, PhD, MSPH

Research Director, Health Care Transformation for Social Needs and Health Equity
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

2021 Summer Interns

Albert

Albert Rancu, BA/BS '23

Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern

Amber Lemmons

Amber Lemmons

2021 Margolis Intern

Amy Labrador

Amy Labrador

2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern

Ana DeCesare

Ana DeCesare

2021 Margolis Intern

Ro

Ro Huang, BA '24

2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

Ankita Patil

Ankita Patil

2021 Margolis Intern

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Anna Bartz, MBA '23, MPP '23

2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

Anthony Salgado

Anthony Salgado

2021 Margolis Intern

Christy Craig

Christy Craig

2021 Margolis Intern

Cokie

Cokie Young, (MA '22)

Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern

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Cynthia Dong, BA/BS '23

2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

Danah Younis

Danah Younis

2021 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Devan Desai, BA/BS '23

Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern

Earnest Wang

Earnest Wang

2021 Margolis Intern

elaijah

Elaijah Lapay, BA '24

2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

Elizabeth Hepburn

Elizabeth Hepburn

2021 Margolis Intern

Elizabeth Kayzman

Elizabeth Kayzman

2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern

Emma Clark

Emma Clark

2021 Margolis Intern

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Fateha Zannath

2021 Margolis Intern

James Zheng

James Zheng

2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern

Jeremy Jacobs

Jeremy Jacobs

2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern

Josee

Josee Li, BA/BS '23

Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern

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Joslin Coggan

2021 Margolis Intern

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Kami Pullakhandam

2021 Margolis Intern

Lauren

Lauren Holt, (PhD '22)

Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern

Lisvel

Lisvel Matos, (PhD '22)

Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern

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Lizzy Simmons

2021 Margolis Intern

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Madeline Fowler

2021 Margolis Intern

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Megan Knauer, (BA/BS '22)

Margolis Scholar
2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Mohini Johri

2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern

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Nadia Bey, BA/BS '23

2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

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Natalie Wong, MPP '23

2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

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Nikhil Chaudhry, BA/BS '24

2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

Margolis Summer Experience

Riya Mohan, BA '24

2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

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Rohan Gupta

2021 Margolis Intern

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Ronit Sethi

2021 Margolis Intern

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Shivam Patel

2021 Margolis Intern

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Sophie Hurewitz

2021 Margolis Intern

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Takhona Hlatshwako

2021 Margolis Intern

2021 Summer Intern Mentors

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Andrea Thoumi, MPP, MSc

Area Lead, Community Health and Equity
Faculty Director of Health Equity Educational Programming
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Core Faculty Member
Adjunct Assistant Professor
2020 Intern Mentor

Bradi Granger

Bradi Granger, PhD

Professor of Nursing
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Mentor Intern
Faculty Executive Committee

Christine Goertz

Christine Goertz, DC, PhD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

Corinna Sorenson

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

Dev Sangvai

Devdutta Sangvai, MD, MBA

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

Beth Gifford

Elizabeth Joanne Gifford, PhD

Faculty Director of the new Bass Connections Health Policy and Innovation Theme
Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Evan Myers

Evan Myers, MD, MPH

Walter L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine
Margolis Core Faculty

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Frank Sloan, PhD

J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management

Gavin Yamey

Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH

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

Gillian Schmidler

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

Kim Lyerly

Herbert Kim Lyerly, MD

George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

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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

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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

MHL

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

Michael Frakes

Michael Frakes, JD, PhD

Professor of Law
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Michelle Franklin

Michelle Franklin, PhD

Margolis Core Faculty
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Mina Silberberg

Mina Silberberg, PhD

Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Margolis Core Faculty

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Nitzan Arad, LLM

Assistant Research Director

patty

Patricia Green, MA

Director of Communications

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Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH

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

Robert Saunders

Robert Saunders, PhD

Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty

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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

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William K. Bleser, PhD, MSPH

Research Director, Health Care Transformation for Social Needs and Health Equity
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

2020 Summer Interns

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Adrianna Williams

2020 Margolis Intern

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Ainsley Buck

2020 Margolis Intern

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Alice Chun , BA/BS '23

2020 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

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Cameron Eck

2020 Margolis Intern

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Chloe Mitchell

2020 Margolis Intern

Margolis Summer Experience

Dana Guggenheim

2020 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar

deepti agnihotri

Deepti Agnihotri

2020 Margolis Intern

Eileen Wen

Eileen Wen

2020 Margolis Intern

hannah shuffer

Hannah Shuffer

2020 Margolis Intern

James Zheng

James Zheng

2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern

Jeremy Jacobs

Jeremy Jacobs

2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern

Joseph Kannarkat

Joseph Kannarkat

2020 Margolis Intern

Judy Zhon

Judy Zhong

2020 Margolis Intern

Julia Johnson

Julia Johnson

2020 Margolis Intern

Kevin Pignone

Kevin Pignone

2020 Margolis Intern

Kristin Ankoma-Sey

Kristin Ankoma-Sey

2020 Margolis Intern

Laura Benzing

Laura Benzing

2020 Margolis Intern

Nikhil Gadiraju

Nikhil Gadiraju

2020 Margolis Intern

Paige O'Leary

Paige O'Leary

2020 Margolis Intern

Rachel Holtzman

Rachel Holtzman

2020 Margolis Intern

Reed Kenny

Reed Kenny

2020 Margolis Intern

Sahil Sandhu

Sahil Sandhu

2020 Margolis Intern

Vignesh Alagappan

Vignesh Alagappan

2020 Margolis Intern

Zoe Zwecker

Zoe Zwecker

2020 Margolis Intern

2020 Summer Intern Mentors

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Andrea Thoumi, MPP, MSc

Area Lead, Community Health and Equity
Faculty Director of Health Equity Educational Programming
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Core Faculty Member
Adjunct Assistant Professor
2020 Intern Mentor

Barak Richman

Barak Richman, PhD

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

Bradi Granger

Bradi Granger, PhD

Professor of Nursing
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Mentor Intern
Faculty Executive Committee

Charlene Wong

Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

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Christina Silcox, PhD

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

Courtney Van Houtven

Courtney Van Houtven, PhD

Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Dev Sangvai

Devdutta Sangvai, MD, MBA

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

Beth Gifford

Elizabeth Joanne Gifford, PhD

Faculty Director of the new Bass Connections Health Policy and Innovation Theme
Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Gavin Yamey

Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH

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

Gillian Schmidler

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

krishna

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

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Matthew Maciejewski, PhD

Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Michael Frakes

Michael Frakes, JD, PhD

Professor of Law
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Osondu Ogbuoji

Osondu Ogbuoji, MBBS, MPH

Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

patty

Patricia Green, MA

Director of Communications

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Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH

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

Robert Saunders

Robert Saunders, PhD

Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty

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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

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William K. Bleser, PhD, MSPH

Research Director, Health Care Transformation for Social Needs and Health Equity
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member