Help Desk Founders
Sahil Sandhu
Program Co-Founder
Program II (B.S.) '20
Lillian Blanchard
Program Co-Founder
Psychology (B.S.) '19
Jackie Xu
Program Co-Founder
Public Policy (B.A.) '19
Veronica Sotelo Muñoz
Program Co-Founder
Master's in Public Policy
Team Leaders
Susan Spratt
Faculty Advisor
Associate Professor of Medicine
John Purakal
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Janet Prvu Bettger
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Carolyn Crowder
Director of Behavioral Health, Lincoln Community Health Center
Howard Eisenson
Former Chief Medical Officer, Lincoln Community Health Center
Connor Drake
School of Medicine - Duke Personalized Health Care
Carolyn Sears Avery
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Kristin Ito
Chief Medical Officer, Lincoln Community Health Center
Student Leadership
Ariana Vaida
Program Coordinator
Biology (B.S) '26
Amitesh Verma
Program Coordinator
Neuroscience (B.S) '25
Austin Brown
Program Coordinator
Psychology (B.S.) '26
Eugene Cho
ED Site Coordinator
Biology (B.S.) '25
Ashley Alcantar Magana
LCHC Site Coordinator
Neuroscience (B.S.) '25
Anthony Zhou
LCHC Site Coordinator
Biology (B.S) '26
Srishti Kumari
Duke Endocrine Site Coordinator
Neuroscience (B.S) '25
Achintya Inumarty
Recruitment and Training Chair
Biology (B.S.) '26
Saisha Dhar
Recruitment and Training Chair
Neuroscience (B.S), Global Health (B.A) '25
Cristal Ortiz
Patient Advocacy Director
Neuroscience (B.S) '25
Ayush Khanna
Communications Director
Health Policy & Management (B.S.) '27
Sai Kurup
Health Policy Liasion
Biology (B.S.) '27
Harrison Pratt
Programming Chair
Biology (B.S.) '27
Aksel Bell
ED Data Manager
Computer Science (B.S.) '26
Pascal Bell
ED Data Manager
Computer Science (B.S) & Statistical Science (B.A.) '26
Albert Liu
Treasurer
Computer Science (B.S.) & Biology (B.S.) '27
Former Program Coordinators
Advika Kumar
Program Coordinator
Biology (B.S.) & Global Health (B.A.) '24
Grace Lee
Program Coordinator
Neuroscience (B.S.) '23
Matthew Yuan
Program Coordinator
Neuroscience (B.S.) '24
Natalie Rincon
Program Coordinator
Neuroscience (B.S.) '22
Ayra Charania
Program Coordinator
Biology (B.S.) & Global Health (B.A.) '24
Gene Moon
Program Coordinator
Neuroscience (B.S.) '22
Katherine Kutzer
Program Coordinator 2020-2021
Biology (B.S.) '21
Diwas Gautam
Program Coordinator 2020-2021
Neuroscience (B.S.) '21
Advisors
LESLIE PARKINS
Assistant Vice President, Director for Civic Engagement
REBECCA WHITAKER
Managing Associate, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Former Advisors
Cynthia Broderius
Former Assistant Director of Office of Health Professions Advising
Jen’nan Ghazal Read
Professor of Sociology and Global Health
Laura Smart Richman
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
Gillian Sanders Schmidler
Professor of Population Health Sciences and Deputy Director of Margolis-Center for Health Policy
Taruni Santanam
Associate in Research, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Mitchell Tod Heflin
Professor of Medicine, Director of Center for Interprofessional Education and Care
