Personnel


Program Leadership

David Grande, MD, MPA

David Grande, MD, MPA

Associate Professor of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Director of Policy, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
 dgrande@wharton.upenn.edu

Dr. Grande is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He received his MD at the Ohio State University and trained in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a Masters in Public Affairs (MPA) at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Grande’s work seeks to understand the role of medical professionalism in advancing societal public health goals. He also studies health care for vulnerable populations with an emphasis on identifying and overcoming barriers.

Dr. Julie Sochalski, PhD, FAAN, RN

Dr. Julie Sochalski, PhD, FAAN, RN

Associate Professor of Nursing
 julieas@nursing.upenn.edu

Julie Sochalski, PhD, FAAN, RN is Co-Director of the NCSP at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Sochalski is recognized as a national and international expert in health policy and the health care workforce. Her 3-year tenure at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2010-2013) as Director of the Division of Nursing and Principal Advisor for Health Workforce Policy at the Health Resources and Services Administration involved directing interagency initiatives that promoted research and program innovations to build a right-sized, well-skilled, and effectively-deployed health care workforce. Prior to her recent federal position, Dr. Sochalski directed a series of national and international studies funded by NIH and other private and government foundations elucidating critical workforce factors influencing the quality of patient care and patient outcomes and innovative practice models that should be pursued to promote quality of care and population health. Her study featured in Health Affairs evaluated the outcomes of disease management interventions for heart failure patients by pooling data from 12 clinical trials conducted in four countries and explored payment policy options for the Medicare program to reimburse for these services. Her work has included examining the impact of innovative models of nursing care and nursing staffing on quality outcomes, and has demonstrated the cost-effective impact of nursing for diverse patient populations including high-risk high-cost chronically ill and terminally ill patients. In addition, she has investigated domestic and international trends in the health care workforce, workforce shortages, and migratory patterns of health workers and has collaborated internationally to develop policy recommendations for building an appropriately prepared and effectively deployed international health care workforce.

Dr. Joanne Wood, MD, MSHP

Dr. Joanne Wood, MD, MSHP

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
 woodjo@email.chop.edu

Joanne N. Wood is a faculty member at PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and an attending physician in the Division of General Pediatrics. She is also the Director of Research of Safe Place: Center for Child Protection and Health at CHOP, and since 2011, has served as the Associate Director of Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship at Safe Place. Since her medical training at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Wood has committed to improving the quality of care for children, especially abused and neglected children. Her current research focuses on improving occult injury screening practices for children suspected of being victims of physical abuse, along with understanding the use and utility of such practices in the evaluation of abusive injuries. Dr. Wood’s research in the field of child maltreatment extends beyond hospital-based care to the child welfare and behavioral health systems.She is involved in projects focused on implementing and evaluating behavioral health interventions for children involved in the child welfare system. Dr. Wood attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where she earned her MD in 2002. She was an intern and resident in pediatrics at CHOP, where she subsequently served as chief resident. In 2006, she participated in the Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship at CHOP. From 2007 to 2010, Dr. Wood was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and earned her Master in Health Policy Research (MSHP).


Associate Directors

Dr. Marilyn Schapira, MD, MPH

Dr. Marilyn Schapira, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine and Program VA Liason, Philadelphia VA Medical Center
 mschap@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Marilyn Schapira, MD, MPH is a native of Montreal, Canada. Dr. Schapira grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is a graduate of Oberlin College. She attended the University of Michigan School of Medicine and Public Health where she obtained an MD and MPH in Health Planning and Administration. Following completion of an Internal Medicine Residency and General Internal Medicine Fellowship, she became a faculty member at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she established a research career in the area of risk communication and medical decision making. In 2011, Dr. Schapira joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in the Division of General Medicine and the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) at the Philadelphia VA. Dr. Schapira conducts research in the area of risk communication and medical decision making. She has developed and evaluated risk communication tools and decision-aids for use in a variety of clinical decisions including prostate cancer screening and treatment, postmenopausal hormone therapy, breast cancer screening, and prevention and treatment of osteoporotic fractures. Her current work involves the development of a measure of a new health numeracy using item response theory (IRT) scaling methods. Dr. Schapira is pursuing additional studies related to risk communication and medical decision making in the context of chronic disease management and cancer prevention, screening, and treatment decisions. Dr. Schapira is a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine and is the President of the Society for Medical Decision Making (2010-2011).

Dr. Katherine Yun, MD, MHS

Dr. Katherine Yun, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
 yunk@chop.edu

Katherine Yun (she/her) is a faculty member at PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, an attending physician in both the Division of General Pediatrics and the Refugee Health Program at CHOP, and director of the Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship at CHOP. Dr. Yun’s primary interest is refugee and immigrant health, specifically the well-being of children in immigrant families in the United States. Her work has focused on the prevalence of chronic, non-communicable conditions and insurance coverage among refugees in the US, differences in primary and dental care utilization by children in different types of immigrant families, and evaluation of health care navigation and related programs for refugee communities.


Program Staff

Kathleen Cooper

Kathleen Cooper

Program Coordinator
 Kathleen.Cooper@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Sarah Gormley

Associate Director of Operations
 Sarah.Gormley@pennmedicine.upenn.edu