Victor Roy - Faculty Biosketch

Victor Roy, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Department: Family Medicine and Community Health

Contact information

3737 Market Street
9th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 2156628777

Education:
BA (Political Science)
Northwestern University, 2007.
MPhil (Modern Societies and Global Transformations (Sociology), with distinction)
University of Cambridge, 2010.
PhD (Sociology)
University of Cambridge, 2017.
MD (Doctor of Medicine)
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 2019.
MHS (Masters in Health Services)
Yale University, 2024.

Post-Graduate Training
Family Medicine Resident, Boston University Medical Center, 2019-2022.
Post-doctoral fellow, VA Scholar, National Clinician Scholars Program: Yale University., 2022-2024.

Certifications
Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO), 2021.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), 2023.
Basic Life Support (BLS), 2023.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), 2023.

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Selected Publications

Roy V, Amana V, Ross JS, Gross CP. : Shareholder Payouts Among Large Publicly Traded Health Care Companies. JAMA Internal Medicine. 02 2025.

Hunter BM, McCoy D, Cordilha AC, Roy, V, et al.: Private finance and the threat to global health. BMJ Glob Health 10(6), 6 2025.

Roy V, Buonora M, Simon C, Dooling B, Joudrey P.: Adoption of methadone take-home policy by state opioid treatment authorities during COVID-19. International Journal of Drug Policy 124(104302), Feb 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104302.

J.D. Bruch, V. Roy, and C.M. Grogan: The Financialization of Health in the United States. The New England Journal of Medicine 390(2): 178-182, jan 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmms2308188.

Roy V, Hamilton D, Chokshi DA. : Health and political economy: building a new common sense in the United States. Health Affairs Scholar 5(2), 4 2024.

Roy V, Ross JS, Ramachandran R. : A Public Option for Clinical Trials? Lessons from Convalescent Plasma. J Law Med Ethics. 52(1), 05 2024.

Victor Roy: Financing covid-19 mRNA vaccines. The BMJ 380: 413, march 2023 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p413.

Victor Roy: Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines. California: University of California Press. University of California Press, 2023 Notes: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.141.

Standish KR, Gonzalez SC, Roy V, McGuire CM, Barnett KG, Saper RB.: Resident Outcomes and Perspectives Over 2 Years of a New Scholarship Curriculum. Family Medicine 53(6): 461-466, June 2021 Notes: https://doi.org/10.22454/fammed.2021.267781.

Abdul El-Sayed and Victor Roy: The Coronavirus Drug Remdesivir Is a Big Deal. But How Much Will It Cost? Newsweek May 2020 Notes: https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-drug-remdesivir-big-deal-how-much-will-it-cost-opinion-1502300.