Professor in Population Health Sciences
Professor in Medicine
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute
Executive Core Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy

Lesley H. Curtis, PhD, is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences in the Duke School of Medicine.  Dr. Curtis also holds a faculty appointment in Medicine. A health services researcher by training, Dr. Curtis is an expert in the use of health care and Medicare claims data for health services and clinical outcomes research, and a leader in national data quality efforts. Dr. Curtis has led the linkage of Medicare claims with several large clinical registries and epidemiological cohort studies including the Framingham Heart Study and the Cardiovascular Health Study. Dr. Curtis served as a senior policy advisor at the Food and Drug Administration supporting the Agency’s evidence generation initiative, serves as an Investigator in the Coordinating Center for PCORI's PCORnet, and is co-PI of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory, an NIH initiative to strengthen the national capacity for large-scale research studies embedded in health care delivery.