
Health Care Transformation
The mission of the Duke-Margolis health care transformation portfolio draws on Duke’s clinical and research expertise to identify care delivery and payment transformation strategies that have an impact in real-world settings; cultivate stakeholder engagement; and develop quantitative and qualitative evidence for supporting major payment and care delivery reforms at the practice, state, and national level.
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State Health Care Transformation
Click below to learn more about our efforts to support health care transformation across states.
Duke-Margolis Faculty & Research Team

Nancy Allen LaPointe
Faculty Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine Faculty
Margolis Core Faculty

David Anderson
Research Associate, Health Policy Evidence Hub

William K. Bleser, PhD, MSPH
Assistant Research Director, Health Care Transformation for Population Health, Social Needs, and Health Equity
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Hayden Bosworth, PhD
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

Nathan Boucher, DrPH
Faculty Director, Health Policy Undergraduate Certificate
Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Margolis Core Faculty

Don Bradley, MD
Consulting Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine
Margolis Core Faculty

Lesley Curtis, PhD
Chair and Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Sara Debab
Policy Research Assistant

Michael Frakes, JD, PhD
Professor of Law
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Ziad Gellad, MD, MPH, AGAF
Associate Professor of Medicine
Margolis Core Faculty

Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith, MPAff
Research Associate

Bradi Granger, PhD
Professor of Nursing
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Mentor Intern

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

Katie Huber, MPH
Senior Policy Analyst

Jeremy Jacobs
2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern

Mark Japinga, MPAff
Research Associate

Brystana Kaufman, MSPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Monica Lemmon, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Matthew Maciejewski, PhD
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Richard Mather III, MD, MBA (Chad)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

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

Aaron McKethan, PhD
Senior Policy Fellow
Adjunct Professor of Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Frank McStay, MPA
Assistant Research Director
Angelo Milazzo, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Margolis Affiliated Faculty

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

Yolande Pokam Tchuisseu, MSc
Senior Policy Analyst

Shelby Reed, PhD, RPh
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Samantha Repka
Research Associate

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

David Ridley, PhD
Professor of the Practice of Business and Economics
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Neil Rowen
Policy Research Assistant

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

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

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

Megan Shepherd-Banigan, PhD
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Montgomery Smith, MPH
Policy Analyst

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

Donald H. Taylor, PhD, MPP
Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Peter Ubel, MD
Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor
Margolis Core Faculty

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

Kristen Ukeomah
Policy Research Assistant

Courtney Van Houtven, PhD
Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Brianna Van Stekelenburg, MPP
Research Associate

Sherrie Wang
Policy Research Assistant

Virginia Wang, PhD
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
Margolis Core Faculty

Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH
Research Director, North Carolina Health Care Transformation
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

James Zheng
2020 Margolis Intern
2021 Margolis Intern
Events About Health Care Transformation
More EventsEvent 4/19/2023
The Next Generation of Risk Adjustment: Policy Opportunities to Advance Reform
This webinar will present an overview of the current risk adjustment system, including how it works…
Read MoreEvent 10/17/2022
Health Policy Talks: Achieving Health Equity Through Health Care Transformation
Dora Hughes joins Health Policy Talks and discusses how to address social needs through health care…
Read MoreEvent 7/28/2022
North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots: A Medicaid Managed Care Program to Address Social Needs
On Thursday July 28, 2022 at 10:00am ET, the Duke-Margolis Center and North Carolina Institute of…
Read MoreEvent 5/5/2022
Equitable Access to Care: Leveraging Telehealth for Medicaid Beneficiaries in North Carolina
The town hall will include study findings on telehealth use and access to care for people with…
Read MorePublications About Health Care Transformation
More PublicationsComment Letter
Comment Letter: Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for Calendar Year 2024 for Medicare Advantage Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies
Mark McClellan, Frank McStay, CareJourney
Mark McClellan, Frank McStay, CareJourney
2023
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A Path Forward for Multipayer Alignment to Achieve Comprehensive, Equitable, and Affordable Care
Mark Japinga, Yolande Pokam Tchuisseu, Robert Saunders, Mark McClellan
Mark Japinga, Yolande Pokam Tchuisseu, Robert Saunders, Mark McClellan
2022
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News About Health Care Transformation
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December 14, 2021
Duke-Margolis Postdoctoral Program in Health Policy
Educating the next-generation of health policy professionals comes at critical juncture with the US managing a global pandemic, improving clinical trial and real-world evidence development, and growing demands for a flexible regulatory apparatus that works to continue advancing innovative medical...
Educating the next-generation of health policy professionals comes at critical juncture with the US...
Read MorePress Release June 4, 2019
Press Release: Building Better Seriously Ill Care Teams
DURHAM, NC – An estimated 40 million Americans are older people with serious illness and nearly one-third report report have duplicative tests and one-quarter receive conflicting medical recommendations. Better, more effective health care teams could resolve these issues and improve care for...
DURHAM, NC – An estimated 40 million Americans are older people with serious illness and nearly...
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State Health Care Transformation
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Accountable Care Organizations
The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is…