Victor Roy

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.

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.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), 2023.
Basic Life Support (BLS), 2023.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), 2023.

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Selected Publications

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.

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.

Victor Roy: A Crisis for Cures? Tracing Assetization and Value in Biomedical Innovation. Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism. Birch, K., Muniesa, F. (eds.). MIT Press, 2020 Notes: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12075.003.0006.

Victor Roy: “Pharmageddon” podcast. America Dissected with Abdul El-Sayed. Episode 3. crooked.com October 2019 Notes: https://crooked.com/podcast/pharmageddon.

Mazzucato, M., & Roy, V: Rethinking value in health innovation: from mystifications towards prescriptions. Journal of Economic Policy Reform 22(2): 101-119, Dec 2018 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2018.1509712.

Mazzucato M, with Chow H, Fitzpatrick S, Laplane A, Masini T, McDonald D, Roy V, t’Hoen Ellen.: The people’s prescription: Re-imagining health innovation to deliver public value. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) Policy Report: 2018-10 October 2018 Notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/wp2018-10.