Discipline(s):
Medicine

Area(s) of Expertise:
Medical Professionalism, Pharmaceutical Marketing, Health Care Safety Net

E-Mail:
dgrande@wharton.upenn.edu

Background:
David Grande is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Dr. Grande’s research and work focuses on health policy with a specific focus on the health care safety net and access to care. He recently chaired the health transition team for Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and has worked with the City of Philadelphia and State of New Jersey on issues related to access to care and the financial viability of safety net institutions. He is a founding board member of Healthy Philadelphia, an organization chartered by the City of Philadelphia focused on improving the quality of care for vulnerable populations. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Pennsylvania’s Public Health Law for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  He also conducts research on aspects of medical professionalism including the civic and social roles of physicians and the influences of commercial marketing on the profession. Dr. Grande trained in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Previously he was the national president of the 40,000 member American Medical Student Association and led the organization’s health policy and advocacy work on issues concerning access to care and health care for vulnerable populations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Physicians Alliance.  He completed a Masters in Public Affairs (MPA) at Princeton University and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.

Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of David Grande's available publications in PubMed.