Duke-Margolis welcomes new staff, faculty

Duke-Margolis welcomes David Anderson, MS, and Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP, to the Center!

David Anderson joins the Health Policy Evidence Hub as a Research Associate. His background is as an insurance industry professional with a specific knowledge of Medicaid risk adjustment and provider network configuration. He has over 10 years of experience in data and quality management most recently with UPMC Health Plan, a leading innovating integrated delivery system in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A prolific writer, David has written at Balloon-Juice.com since 2013 under the pen name Richard Mayhew. He focuses on explaining the logic and reasoning of insurance company decision making to an interested lay audience while also advancing policy proposals to improve the breadth and reach of insurance coverage for all Americans. Through his work and writing he embraces the challenges that the continual process of health care policy reform provides. David earned both his bachelor degree and a master degree in public policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He is married with two young children.

Dr. Wong is an adolescent medicine pediatrician and health services researcher. Her research focuses on the consumer experience with accessing health, the impact of health policy on youth and innovative strategies that leverage behavioral economics and technology to improve youth health and well-being.  Her work on choice environment of the health insurance exchanges has helped inform improvements in the decision support tools available to consumers shopping for a plan.   She has also studied the impact of the Affordable Care Act on young adult health care utilization and costs of care.  Her work in motivating behavior change has tested the use of financial incentives, social media and connected devices to better engage young people with their health.  

Dr. Wong will be working jointly in the Duke-Margolis center and the Duke Clinical Research Institute as well as providing primary and specialty adolescent care to youth in North Durham.  Before joining Duke-Margolis, Dr. Wong completed a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Fellowship and Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  Dr. Wong also received public health research training at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a CDC Experience Fellow.