Corinna Sorenson PhD, MHSA, MPH

Corinna Sorenson

Core Faculty

Corinna Sorenson, PhD, MHSA, MPH

Degree

PhD, London School of Economics (UK)

Corinna Sorenson, PhD, was founding Director of the Margolis Scholars Program in Health Policy and Management. She currently has a leadership role on the development and implementation of the health policy core competency framework and serves as both Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for Duke-Margolis.

Dr. Sorenson has extensive research and policy expertise in value assessment in health care, comparative effectiveness research, drug and device regulation and payment, and health policy evaluation. She is interested in the design, implementation, and assessment of innovative, evidence-based strategies to enhance value-based health care, particularly with regards to new and existing health care treatments and services. In this work, she also examines the economic, methodological, political, cultural, organizational, professional, and legal levers that support or hinder the adoption of such approaches.     

O’Brien EC, Ford CB, Sorenson C, Jutkowitz E, Shepherd-Banigan M, Van Houtven C. Continuity of care (COC) and amyloid-β PET scan: the CARE-IDEAS study. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2023 Jan 7;15(1):6.

Golla V, Allen Lapointe NM, Silberberg M, Wang V, Lentz TA, Kaye DR, et al. Improving health equity for older people with serious illness through value based payment reform. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Jul;70(7):2180–5.

Sorenson C, Japinga M, Crook H. Low-Value Care De-implementation: Practices for Systemwide Reduction. NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery. 2022 Apr 20;3(5).