Dave Washburn is clinical associate professor and director of the MHA program in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He received both his Doctor of Science and Master of Science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to his academic career, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, and worked as a strategic and capital health care planner for the San Francisco VA Medical Center and then Stanford Health Care.

Richard (Rich) Priore is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Tulane University, where he teaches healthcare financial management, quality management, and health economics. Previously he served as an associate professor in the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health and most recently as a distinguished service professor in the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Yilu Lin is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on predictive modeling using machine learning. She is one of the developers of the socio-Demographic, Metabolic, diabetes-related Complications, and healthcare Utilization for Risk Evaluation (DM-CURE). She is also interested in health service research and health policy. Dr. Lin is a WOC Research Associate affiliated with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System.

Tatiane Santos is an assistant professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She holds an Adjunct Senior Fellow appointment at the University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Penn Center for Public Health Initiatives. Dr. Santos is a fellow of AcademyHealth Public Voices Fellowship in partnership with the OpEd Project; and a member of the board of directors for the Louisiana Public Health Institute.