David Grande, MD, MPA is the Interim Executive Director and the Director of Policy at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. He also serves as a Special Advisor at the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. His research focuses on health care for vulnerable populations with an emphasis on identifying and overcoming barriers to care. He also studies ethical issues related to marketing in health care and digital health information privacy.
Dr. Grande received his MD at the Ohio State University and trained in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a Master’s 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.
