Alumni Spotlight:
David Asch, MD, MBA
Dr. Asch is Executive Director of the University of Pennsylvania Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, a program that spans the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the Perelman School of Medicine. He teaches health policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and he practices internal medicine at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he created the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion.
Watch his TED Talk “Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions” Here:
Kavita Patel, MD, MS
Dr. Patel, a primary care physician in Washington, D.C., is an MSNBC columnist and an NBC News/MSNBC contributor. She served in the Obama administration as director of policy for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement in the White House. A Brookings Institution nonresident fellow, she is the former managing director of clinical transformation at Brookings' Center for Health Policy.
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Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS
Dr. Nunez-Smith is an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, where she is also Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and founding director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center. After co-chairing the Biden-Harris transition’s COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021, she was selected by President Joe Biden to lead his administration's COVID-19 Equity Task Force.
Read more about her here: https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/marcella_nunez-smith/
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