About CHIBE

Leadership & Staff

Meet Our Leadership

Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD

Director, CHIBE

Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA

Scientific Director, CHIBE

Mohan Balachandran, MA, MS

Chief Operating Officer, Way to Health

Hamsa Bastani, PhD

Co-Director, Wharton Healthcare Analytics Lab

M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS

Director, Penn Medicine Nudge Unit

Jalpa Doshi, PhD

Director of Value Based Insurance Design Initiatives, CHIBE

Joelle Friedman, MPA

Managing Director, CHIBE

Amol Navathe, MD, PhD

Director, Payment Insights Team

Christina Roberto, PhD

Director, PEACH Lab

Meghan Ross, BA

Associate Director of Communications, CHIBE

Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD

Associate Director for Global Health, CHIBE

Atheendar Venkataramani, PhD, MD, MPhil

Director, Opportunity for Health Lab

Jingsan Zhu, MS, MBA

Director of Data Analytics, CHIBE

Meet Our Staff

Hilena Addis, BA

Kano Amagai, MPH

Chinyere Anucha, BA

Lizzie Bair, MS

Vanessa Barrett-Pearsall, AA

Brian Bayes, MS, ScB

Melissa Berkowitz, MPP, MSc

Maura Boughter-Dornfeld, MPH

Kayla Clark, MPH

Skip Coon, BA

Elizabeth Cooney-Zingman, MPH

Samantha Coratti, BA

Deborah Cousins, MSPH, PMP

Adriana Discher, BA

Erica Dixon, PhD

Erich Dress, MPH, MBE

Teniola Egbe, MPH, MBE

Jenny Emery

Dave Farrady

Samantha Fellman

Will Ferrell, MPH

Chioma Fitzgerald

Sadie Friday, BA

Abeselom Gebreyesus, BA, MPH Candidate

Zhi Geng, MPH

Joseph Harrison

Caleb Hearn, MPH

Qian (Erin) Huang, MPH

Michael Josephs

Nancy Kennedy-Smith

Emily Kim, BS

Tamar Klaiman, PhD, MPH

Michael Kopinsky, BSE

Aaron Leitner, BA

Junning Liang, MS

Kelsey Lovering

Vanessa Madden, BSc Hons

Kaley Maltz, BA

Caitlin McDonald, MPH

Kyle McGrogan, BS

Monica Michael, MBS

Sarah Milinski, MA

Adam Mussell, MA

Laurie Norton, MA, MBE

Dana Opiela

Jennifer Orr, MSPH

David Pagnotti, MS

Sae-Hwan Park, PhD

Martina Plag, MHCI, AXP, Pn1

Klea Profka, BA

Aaliyah Randall, MA

Charles Rareshide, MA

Leslie Reid-Bey

Cathy Reitz, MPH

Benjamin Rosenbach, BSSE

Torrey Shirk, BA

Doron Shore, BS

Jordan Sigler, BS

Jenna Steckel, MSW

Jacob Van Osten, BS

Zakiya Walker, BA

Erkuan Wang, MA

Keyirah Williams, BA

Yueming Zhao, MPH

Meet Our Trainees

Daniel Banko-Ferran, BA

Sam Cohen, BA

Isadora Frankenthal, MAS

Martin Paul Fritze, PhD

Yoonhee P. Ha, MSc, MPhil

Ashley Litwin, MA

Andrew Parambath, BA

Catherine Pollak, PhD

Hannah Posner

Mohammad Rahimi, MSc, MBA, PMP

Simone Schriger, MA

William R. Smith, MD, PhD

Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH