Margolis Interns
2023 Summer Interns
Alexa Fahrer
2023 Margolis Intern
Andrew Owens
2023 Margolis Intern
Anna Tharakan
2023 Margolis Intern
Aubteen Pour-Biazar
2023 Margolis Intern
Audrey Landstreet
2023 Margolis Intern
Claire Hollowell
2023 Margolis Intern
Emily Zhen
2023 Margolis Intern
Evon Thompson
2023 Margolis Intern
Gracie Blackburn
2023 Margolis Intern
Jieyu Zhang
2023 Margolis Intern
Matthew Nuzzolo
2023 Margolis Intern
Neha Shaw
2023 Margolis Intern
Pearl Teiko
2023 Margolis Intern
Remi Shendell
2023 Margolis Intern
Sai Rachakonda, BA '24
Margolis Scholar
2023 Margolis Intern
Talia West
2023 Margolis Intern
Oluwatumilara (Tumi) Akeke
2023 Margolis Intern
Velda Wang
2023 Margolis Intern
Vibhav Nandagiri, BA '25
Margolis Scholar
2023 Margolis Intern
You (Lucine) Wu
2023 Margolis Intern
2022 Summer Interns
Alexandra Wynn
2022 Margolis Intern
Amanda He
2022 Margolis Intern
Amy Labrador
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Aneesh Karuppur
2022 Margolis Intern
Anika Vemulapalli
2022 Margolis Intern
Anna Zolotor
2022 Margolis Intern
Breanna Barrett, BA '25
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Catherine Serianni
2022 Margolis Intern
Cathy Xiang
2022 Margolis Intern
Charles Drucker
2022 Margolis Intern
Chinmay Amin
2022 Margolis Intern
Dana Guggenheim
2020 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Devan Desai, BA/BS '23
Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Elizabeth Kayzman
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Francisco Banda
2022 Margolis Intern
Haley Cionfolo
2022 Margolis Intern
Ishaan Brar
2022 Margolis Intern
Joan Navarro
2022 Margolis Intern
Jonathan Barber
2022 Margolis Intern
Juliana Shank
2022 Margolis Intern
Karina Vasudeva
2022 Margolis Intern
Ayokunmi Ojo
2022 Margolis Intern
Lauren Caton
2022 Margolis Intern
Maya Thieme
2022 Margolis Intern
Meera Patel
2022 Margolis Intern
Meyra Çoban
2022 Margolis Intern
Mohini Johri
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Nisha Kumar
2022 Margolis Intern
Noah Evenson
2022 Margolis Intern
Payton Little
2022 Margolis Intern
Pranav Tadikonda
2022 Margolis Intern
Preeyanko Rao
2022 Margolis Intern
Riya Mohan, BA '24
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Ro Huang, BA '24
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Samantha Murrell
2022 Margolis Intern
Sarah Barnes
2022 Margolis Intern
Shamar Wilson
2022 Margolis Intern
2022 Summer Intern Mentors
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
Anna Hung, PharmD, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
Barak Richman, PhD
Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Beth Shaz
Professor of Pathology
Deputy Director of the Marcus Center for Cellular Cures
Margolis Core Faculty
Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Christine Goertz, DC, PhD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
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
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
Dure Kim, PharmD
Assistant Research Director
Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH
Hymowitz Professor of the Practice of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
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
Herbert Kim Lyerly, MD
George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty
Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith, MPAff
Associate Research Director
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
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
Megan Shepherd-Banigan, PhD
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
Michael Frakes, JD, PhD
Professor of Law
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Minahil Shahid, (Public Policy, MPP '19)
Margolis Scholars Alum
Mina Silberberg, PhD
Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Margolis Core Faculty
Nina Sperber, PhD
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
Nitzan Arad, LLM
Assistant Research Director
Osondu Ogbuoji, MBBS, MPH
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc, MSc, MA
Research Director
Senior Team Member
Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH
Research Director, North Carolina Health Care Transformation
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Robert Saunders, PhD
Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty
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, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Community & Family Medicine, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Margolis Core Faculty
Tiffany Chan, MS
Program Coordinator -Summer Experience, Margolis Scholars
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 Rancu, BA/BS '23
Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern
Amber Lemmons
2021 Margolis Intern
Amy Labrador
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Ana DeCesare
2021 Margolis Intern
Ro Huang, BA '24
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Ankita Patil
2021 Margolis Intern
Anna Bartz, MBA '23, MPP '23
2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Anthony Salgado
2021 Margolis Intern
Christy Craig
2021 Margolis Intern
Cokie Young, (MA '22)
Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern
Cynthia Dong, BA/BS '23
2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Danah Younis
2021 Margolis Intern
Devan Desai, BA/BS '23
Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Earnest Wang
2021 Margolis Intern
Elaijah Lapay, BA '24
2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Elizabeth Hepburn
2021 Margolis Intern
Elizabeth Kayzman
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Emma Clark
2021 Margolis Intern
Fateha Zannath
2021 Margolis Intern
James Zheng
2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern
Jeremy Jacobs
2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern
Josee Li, BA/BS '23
Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern
Joslin Coggan
2021 Margolis Intern
Kami Pullakhandam
2021 Margolis Intern
Lauren Holt, (PhD '22)
Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern
Lisvel Matos, (PhD '22)
Margolis Scholar
2021 Margolis Intern
Lizzy Simmons
2021 Margolis Intern
Madeline Fowler
2021 Margolis Intern
Megan Knauer, (BA/BS '22)
Margolis Scholar
2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern
Mohini Johri
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Nadia Bey, BA/BS '23
2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Natalie Wong, MPP '23
2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Nikhil Chaudhry, BA/BS '24
2021 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Riya Mohan, BA '24
2021 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Rohan Gupta
2021 Margolis Intern
Ronit Sethi
2021 Margolis Intern
Shivam Patel
2021 Margolis Intern
Sophie Hurewitz
2021 Margolis Intern
Takhona Hlatshwako
2021 Margolis Intern
2021 Summer Intern Mentors
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, PhD
Professor of Nursing
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Mentor Intern
Faculty Executive Committee
Christine Goertz, DC, PhD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
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
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
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, MD, MPH
Walter L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine
Margolis Core Faculty
Frank Sloan, PhD
J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management
Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH
Hymowitz Professor of the Practice of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
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
Herbert Kim Lyerly, MD
George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Margolis 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
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
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, JD, PhD
Professor of Law
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Michelle Franklin, PhD
Margolis Core Faculty
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Mina Silberberg, PhD
Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Margolis Core Faculty
Nitzan Arad, LLM
Assistant Research Director
Patricia Green, MA
Director of Communications
Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH
Research Director, North Carolina Health Care Transformation
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Robert Saunders, PhD
Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty
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
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
Adrianna Williams
2020 Margolis Intern
Ainsley Buck
2020 Margolis Intern
Alice Chun , BA/BS '23
2020 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Cameron Eck
2020 Margolis Intern
Chloe Mitchell
2020 Margolis Intern
Dana Guggenheim
2020 Margolis Intern
2022 Margolis Intern
Margolis Scholar
Deepti Agnihotri
2020 Margolis Intern
Eileen Wen
2020 Margolis Intern
Hannah Shuffer
2020 Margolis Intern
James Zheng
2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern
Jeremy Jacobs
2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern
Joseph Kannarkat
2020 Margolis Intern
Judy Zhong
2020 Margolis Intern
Julia Johnson
2020 Margolis Intern
Kevin Pignone
2020 Margolis Intern
Kristin Ankoma-Sey
2020 Margolis Intern
Laura Benzing
2020 Margolis Intern
Nikhil Gadiraju
2020 Margolis Intern
Paige O'Leary
2020 Margolis Intern
Rachel Holtzman
2020 Margolis Intern
Reed Kenny
2020 Margolis Intern
Sahil Sandhu
2020 Margolis Intern
Vignesh Alagappan
2020 Margolis Intern
Zoe Zwecker
2020 Margolis Intern
2020 Summer Intern Mentors
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, PhD
Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Bradi Granger, PhD
Professor of Nursing
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Mentor Intern
Faculty Executive Committee
Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Christina Silcox, PhD
Research Director, Digital Health
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty
Courtney Van Houtven, PhD
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
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
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, MD, MPH
Hymowitz Professor of the Practice of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
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
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
Matthew Maciejewski, PhD
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Michael Frakes, JD, PhD
Professor of Law
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Osondu Ogbuoji, MBBS, MPH
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Patricia Green, MA
Director of Communications
Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH
Research Director, North Carolina Health Care Transformation
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Robert Saunders, PhD
Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty
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
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
