Tamar Chukrun, MD, MBA

Tamar Chukrun

Undergraduate School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Graduate School

Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

Medical School
Duke University School of Medicine

Interests and Career Goals

Entrepreneurship, reverse integration, severe mental illness, care delivery innovation, value based care, behavioral health integration

Favorite Pastimes

Hiking, cooking, baking, gardening, travel 

Strengths of the Program

Durham! Also, well supported psychiatry and internal medicine departments, rigorous training, strong mentorship.

Publications/Abstracts

  • Galanos AN, Alagasan P, Benton JT, Cervantes A, Chukrun T, et al. Letter to the Editor: Grief Education in Medical School: Preparing Students for the Future. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2024 June 21. In Press.
  • Dalapati T, George IA, Tracey S, Chukrun T, Brown M, Biederman DJ. WellNest: A Medical Student-Run Housing Support Program. Acad Med. 2024 Mar 28. In Press.
  • Chukrun T, Xie J, Biederman D, Dalapati T. By Perpetuating Substance Use Disorder Stigma, Public Housing Policy Causes Harm. Health Affairs Forefronts. July 22, 2022. In Press.
  • Boone W, Chukrun T, Delaney A, Silberberg M. Poverty, Economic Security and Toxic Stress. In: 2020 Durham Community Health Assessment. March 2021. In Press.

Poster Presentations

  • Rajaguru, P., Ademuwagun, L., Pierre-Louis, Y., Reddy, N., Moreira, C. Moving Beyond Diversity: A Scoping Review of Inclusion Initiatives in the Surgical Workforce. American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, Virtual, October 23-27, 2021. 
     
  • Ademuwagun, L., Ademuwagun, E., Wilson, T. Black in Medicine: An Examination of the Experiences of Black Students to and Through Medical School. Warren Alpert Medical School Academic Symposium, Providence, Rhode Island, November 2020. 
     
  • Watkoske, K., Owusu, P., Ohrt, C., Ademuwagun, L., Sheriff, B., Akofio-Sawah, L., Laar, A., Kanyangarara, M., Sakyi, K. Identifying Successful Community-Level Strategies That Have Led to a 67% Decline in Neonatal Mortality in the Northern Region of Ghana. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2-6, 2019. 
     
  • Watkoske, K., Owusu, P., Ohrt, C., Ademuwagun, L., Sheriff, B., Akofio-Sawah, L., Laar, A., Kanyangarara, M., Sakyi, K. Priority Interventions to Reach the UN Sustainable Development Goal for Neonatal Mortality in Ghana: Evidence from a Mixed-Methods Study. Brown University Global Health Research Day, Providence, Rhode Island, March 2019.