Value for Medical Products Consortium
About the Consortium
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Problem Statement
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Our Approach
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Consortium Composition and Participation
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Consortium Activity Groups
Our Work
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White Papers
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Comment Letters
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Policy and Issue Briefs
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Case Studies
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Journal Articles
Value for Medical Products Advisory Group
Alan Balch Chief Executive Officer, Patient Advocate Foundation |
Barbara Minton Staff Vice President, Pharma Contract Strategies, CarelonRx |
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Thomas Barker Partner and Co-Chair, Healthcare Practice, Foley Hoag LLP |
Megan O'Brien Executive Director, Center for Observational and Real World Evidence, Merck |
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Chuck Bucklar Vice President, North America Commercial Operations, BioMarin |
Gregory Poulsen Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Intermountain Healthcare |
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Sree Chaguturu Senior Vice President, CVS Health, Chief Medical Officer, CVS Caremark, CVS-Aetna |
Rekha Ramesh Executive Director, Head of Policy, Gilead Sciences |
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Mary Coppage Senior Director, Healthcare Policy, Edwards Lifesciences |
Sandhya Rao Chief Medical officer and Senior Vice President Health and Medical Management, Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts |
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Gregory Daniel Global Head of Public Policy, Eli Lilly & Co |
Gail Ryan Director of Pharmaceutical Transformation, Point32Health |
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Darin Gordon President and CEO, Gordon & Associates, LLC |
Lewis Sandy Executive Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group |
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Jeffrey S. Guy Vice President, Clinical Services Group, Hospital Corporation of America |
Keely Scamperle Vice President of Reimbursement and Market Access, Apollo Endosurgery |
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Esther Krofah Executive Director, FasterCures |
Surya Singh President, Singh Healthcare Advisors |
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Ellen Lukens Deputy Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid |
Robert Smith Senior Vice President, Global Gene Therapy Business, Pfizer |
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Josh Trent Principal, Leavitt Partners |
Funding
This project is made possible through the generosity of the Margolis Family Foundation, which provides core resources for the Center, as well as a combination of financial and in-kind contributions from consortium members including Apollo Endosurgery, BioMarin, Edwards, Eli Lilly, Gilead, Merck, and Pfizer.
Participation of private or non-profit organizations in Center activities does not imply an endorsement by Duke University or associated entities. As part of Duke University, Duke-Margolis honors the tradition of academic independence on the part of its faculty and scholars. Neither Duke nor the Margolis Center take partisan positions, but the individual members are free to speak their minds and express their opinions regarding important issues. Duke Margolis adheres to all institutional policies on research independence and conflict of interest.
Duke-Margolis Research Team

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Director of Margolis Center
Robert J. Margolis, MD, Professor of Business, Medicine and Policy
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

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

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

Aparna Higgins
Senior Policy Advisor

Arti K. Rai, JD
Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law
Margolis Core Faculty

Morgan Romine, MPA
Chief of Staff
Senior Team Member

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

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

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

Sreekanth Vemulapalli, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Margolis Core Faculty

Grace Hoover
Policy Research Assistant
Duke-Margolis Project Team

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

Nitzan Arad, LLM
Assistant Research Director

Beena Bhuiyan Khan, MSc
Research Director for Payment and Coverage Policy

Hannah Graunke, MPP
Senior Policy Analyst

Sabine Sussman, M.P.H.
Policy Analyst

Christina Bush, M.P.H.
Policy Analyst