Dr. Zhu is a practicing primary care physician and associate professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University and core faculty at the Center for Health Systems Effectiveness. Dr. Zhu’s research focuses on health care access and quality, particularly for mental/behavioral health services, and on the effects of provider incentives and organization on health care delivery. In particular, she is interested in understanding how managed care plan features can be leveraged to improve behavioral health service delivery in Medicaid. A recipient of a K08 career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health, she is now principal investigator of multiple R01 grants as well as foundation grants. Her work has been published in high-impact journals, including JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs; covered in media including The New York Times, Reuters, and The Wall Street Journal; and cited in government and legislative reports. Dr. Zhu obtained a BSc degree in global health and international development from Duke University, where she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. She received dual degrees in medicine and public policy from Harvard. After internal medicine residency training at the University of California, San Francisco, she was selected as a National Clinician Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania where she completed a two-year fellowship. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and serves on regional and national committees for the Society of General Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians, and the National Academy of Medicine.