Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
Dr. Doraiswamy is an internationally recognized expert on brain/mind health and successful aging. He serves on the executive committee of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and directs a leading clinical trials unit that is focused on developing novel diagnostics, mobile self-health tools and therapeutics for enhancing emotional and cognitive wellbeing.
Doraiswamy is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and a fellow of the American Neurological Association, and received a Special U..S Congressional Recognition for services to the community.
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Charles Gersbach
Associate professor of biomedical engineering
Expertise: Genetic Engineering > Health Care and Family
Charles expertise is in genetic engineering and, more specifically, the gene-editing and activity modifying system CRISPR-Cas9. There has been a wide assortment of stories in the press about this emerging technology recently. Cheaper, faster and more accurate than previous genetic editing techniques, CRISPR-Cas9 will help scientists better understand the root causes of genetic diseases and perhaps fix them.
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Clinical professor of law
Expertise: Health Care and Family > HIV/AIDS
McAllastar is founder of the Health Justice Clinic and director of the HIV/AIDS Policy Clinic; she specializes in issues facing low-income individuals facing major health problems.
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Physician and professor of business, public policy and medicine at the Fuqua School of Business
Expertise: Health Care and Family > Policy
Ubel specializes in behavioral science and how health care decisions are made at the bedside and the policy level.
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Professor of law and professor of business administration
Expertise: Health Care and Family > Policy
He specializes in healthcare policy, antitrust, the economics of contracting, and new institutional economics.
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Associate professor of public policy, sociology, and psychology and neuroscience, and a faculty fellow of the Center for Child and Family Policy
Expertise: Family > Health Care and Family
Her research focuses on causes and consequences of changing fertility and marriage patterns, including single mothers and marriage versus cohabitation, the causes and consequences of marriage among low-income parents and the health and well-being of low-income children.
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Professor in psychiatry and behavioral science
Expertise: Behavioral Sciences > Health Care and Family
Swanson is the author or coauthor of over 200 publications focused on the epidemiology of violence and serious mental illnesses; effectiveness of community-based interventions and services for adults with schizophrenia and other serious psychiatric disorders; laws and policies to reduce firearms violence; involuntary outpatient commitment; and psychiatric advance directives.
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Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
Expertise: Behavioral Sciences > Health Care and Family
Dr. Doraiswamy is an internationally recognized expert on brain/mind health and successful aging. He serves on the executive committee of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and directs a leading clinical trials unit that is focused on developing novel diagnostics, mobile self-health tools and therapeutics for enhancing emotional and cognitive wellbeing.
Doraiswamy is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and a fellow of the American Neurological Association, and received a Special U..S Congressional Recognition for services to the community.
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Professor of public policy and global health
Expertise: Health Care and Family > Health Disparities
Her work focuses on the understanding of health disparities in the U.S. and around the globe. Whetten and her team have research projects that address issues surrounding HIV/AIDS, mental health, substance abuse, being orphaned or abandoned, social justice, and poverty in the U.S. South and in less wealthy nations.
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Assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, general psychiatry, psychiatry and behavioral sciences
Expertise: Health Care and Family
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Professor of public policy, community and family medicine, nursing
Expertise: Health Care and Family > Policy
He researches health care reform and economics with a focus on long-term care and medical access, and has written op-eds about medical access issues and the Affordable Care Act in North Carolina. He is the author of "Balancing the Budget is a Progressive Priority."
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