Health Management Faculty

Tanya Chartrand is the Roy J. Bostock Marketing Professor and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Her research interests focus on the nonconscious processes influencing emotion, cognition, and behavior.

Dr. Chartrand has published in numerous psychology and consumer behavior journals, including American Psychologist, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology. She was a co-chair of the 2011 North American Association for Consumer Research Conference and was co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Consumer Psychology on Nonconscious Processes. She has also been on the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, chairing the dissertation award, career trajectory award, and membership committees.

Dr. Chartrand received her PhD from New York University in social psychology, and was on the psychology faculty at Ohio State University before joining Duke University. She teaches Market Research to the MBAs and Behavioral Research Methods to doctoral students.

The MedCelerate Consulting Group, LLC is led by Greg Davis, a seasoned medical device executive with broad global and functional experience in finance, manufacturing, sales, and general management. During his 35-year career, Greg spent 11 years working and living in Latin America, Asia and Japan. He also has significant manufacturing and commercialization experience in Europe.

During his tenure as CEO of Tryton Medical, Greg launched the company’s Side Branch Stent across Europe and the Middle East, where it quickly became the established market leader. While at Guidant, he held numerous management positions of increasing responsibility. These include president of Guidant Japan, with P&L responsibility for the company’s $225 million cardiovascular business. Prior to his work in Japan, Greg managed Guidant’s product portfolio in 13 Asian countries.

Earlier in his career he was instrumental in the start-up and management of a FDA-regulated, Class III manufacturing facility in Puerto Rico. Greg holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota and a MBA from the University of Michigan. Since 2013 Greg has been an Adjunct Professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University where he teaches graduate level courses focused on medical device strategy and corporate growth strategies.

James (Jim) Emery is a Faculty Director for Fuqua’s Client Consulting Practicum and an Adjunct Professor in the Management and Organizations department at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. His leadership research focuses on loyalty, trust and inspiration in leader-follower relationships and how educational experiences affect leadership development. Jim is part of an interdisciplinary research team funded by a grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs to explore how to improve team work in patient care processes. He has also provided executive education and leadership coaching to for-profit corporations, non-profit organizations and government agencies over the past eight years. Jim received his PhD and MBA in Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

Henry Eyring is an assistant professor in the accounting area at The Fuqua School of Business. Professor Eyring uses field experiments and large-sample data analysis to understand reporting, feedback, and incentive systems in the private and public sectors. He has conducted research with organizations including Cleveland Clinic, Stanford Health Care, the German Football Association, Kaiser Permanente, and HarvardX. His research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research.

Dr. Marianne Hamilton Lopez is the Senior Research Director of Biomedical Innovation, an adjunct associate professor, and core faculty at the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy in Washington, DC. She leads the strategic design and direction of the Institute’s Biomedical Innovation portfolio, with a focus on medical products development and regulation, real world evidence, infectious disease preparedness, and payment, pricing, and coverage of drugs and medical devices. She also oversees the Value for Medical Products Consortium and partners with Duke University faculty, scholars, and external health experts to advance this work. 

Prior to joining Duke-Margolis, Dr. Hamilton Lopez was a senior program officer with the National Academy of Medicine’s Leadership Consortium for a Value & Science-Driven Health System and provided strategic direction and oversight of the Consortium’s Science and Technology portfolio and Clinical Effectiveness Research Innovation and the Digital Learning Collaboratives. She was a Senior Manager at AcademyHealth; a Public Health Community Advisor for the United States Cochrane Center; and the Federal Women’s Program Manager and American Indian/Alaska Native Employment Program Manager for the National Institutes of Health. 

J. Blake Long, MD, MBA, is President of Long Health Care Consulting and a General Partner for Swift Street Capital. He also served as Chief Medical Officer of Alva10 for over 5 years. Blake believes that precision medicine now requires innovation in both clinical science and health care systems to achieve precision delivery. He is dedicated to developing the necessary entrepreneurial ecosystem from the clinical, health economic and strategic capital perspectives.

Blake was previously the Chief Medical Officer for Sapere Bio and for Echo Health Ventures, the venture investment group of BlueCross BlueShield of NC and Cambia Health Solutions. Prior to Echo, Blake served for 20 years as a practicing pediatric cardiologist at Savannah Children’s Heart Center and as a clinical professor at Mercer University School of Medicine.

He earned his BA and MD from Duke University, and then completed his clinical training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Duke Medical Center. He received his MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business in 2015, and is now an Adjunct Professor at Fuqua in the Center for Health Sector Management.

Professor Majumder, as the Faculty Co-Director of the Fuqua Client Consulting Program, coordinates the sourcing of client projects, building MBA student teams, classroom content delivery and project management for about 30 projects and about 150 students in domestic and international locations. The FCCP is a collaborative effort between the faculty instructors, student team members, external clients, and Fuqua Centers.

He teaches electives in Operations, including Operations Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Service Operations and Health Care Provider strategy.

His research is in the area of operations strategy, supply chains and sustainability.

Pranab Majumder joined the Fuqua School of Business in 2001 after finishing his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He completed his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, India) and his MBA from theIndian Institute of Management (Calcutta, India) before working for a few years in Logistics and Information Technology.

David Ridley has served for more than a decade as the Faculty Director for the Center for Health Sector Management at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He is a health economist and Dr. and Mrs. Frank A. Riddick, Jr. Research Fellow.

David’s research focuses on incentives for innovation and quality, as well as pricing. He is dedicated to creating and studying tools that improve health. David was the lead author of two papers that became law. He and his colleagues proposed the Food and Drug Administration priority review voucher program which became law in 2007. David and his colleagues also proposed the Environmental Protection Agency vector expedited review voucher program which became law in 2022.

Peter Ubel M.D. is a physician and behavioral scientist whose research and writing explores the mixture of rational and irrational forces that affect our health, our happiness and the way our society functions.  

Ubel is the Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor of Business, Public Policy and Medicine at Duke. He uses the tools of decision psychology and behavioral economics to explore topics like informed consent, shared decision making and health care cost containment. His books include Pricing Life: Why it’s time for healthcare rationing (MIT Press 2000),  Free Market Madness: How economics is at odds with human nature—and why it matters (Harvard Business Press, 2009), Critical Decisions (HarperCollins, 2012) and Sick to Debt (Yale, 2019). You can find his blogs and other information at http://www.peterubel.com/.