Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD

Dr. Volpp has direct responsibility of oversight of efforts to expand CTSA activity in the population health management space. He is overseeing a new pilot program around the use of mobile technologies and provider-based “Nudges” to reduce risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease as well as health improvement more broadly. Dr. Volpp is the Director of the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, 1 of 2 original NIH-funded Centers in Behavioral Economics and health that is comprised of more than 70 faculty members from throughout different schools at the University of Pennsylvania as well as other Universities. He is well known for pioneering work developing the application of behavioral economics to health and health care including the use of financial and social incentives to improve patient engagement and for chronic disease management. He is the Founders Presidential Distinguished Professor at the School of Medicine and the Wharton School and Division Chief of Health Policy for the Department of Medical Ethics and Policy. His team co-created the Penn Way to Health platform, a software platform now used by faculty at more than 30 universities to conduct behavioral interventions. He has garnered numerous awards for his research including election into the Institute of Medicine, the British Medical Journal Group Award for Translating Research into Practice, Article of the Year awards from multiple societies, the John Eisenberg Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine, and the Mathilda White Riley Award for career achievement in social and behavioral sciences from NIH. He is an editorial board member of the NEJM Catalyst.