Dr. Volpp is Director of the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, the Mark V. Pauly President’s Distinguished Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School at Penn, and Scientific Lead of the American Heart Association Health Care by Food Initiative, building evidence on effectiveness and cost effectiveness of food is medicine programs nationally.
Dr. Volpp has contributed to benefit designs using financial incentives for smoking cessation by many employers, redesigns of primary care payment implemented in multiple states, the “Humana Simplicity” health plan, and ‘enhanced active choice’ used by millions of CVS members to facilitate automated medication refills.
His work has been recognized by the NIH Matilda White Riley Award, the John Eisenberg Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Association for Clinical and Translational Science Distinguished Investigator Award, the American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist Award, the Edward S. Cooper Award from the American Heart Association, numerous article-of-the-year awards, and election to the National Academy of Medicine.
