Jay Lusk, MD, MBA received his MD and MBA with a certificate in healthcare sector management from Duke University. He completed predoctoral fellowships with the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy and the Duke University Department of Population Health Sciences. He then completed a preliminary internship in Internal Medicine at Duke University. He is now a preventive medicine resident at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill and will serve as Chief Resident from 2025-2026. Dr. Lusk is a clinician-scientist in preventive medicine, data science, and population health sciences. His areas of research expertise include the use of routinely collected healthcare data, such as electronic health record data and healthcare claims data, causal inference, and health equity promotion. His research interests include the prevention of chronic disease, with a focus on multimorbidity, cardiovascular disease, and dementia. Clinically, he is interested in brain health promotion and in deploying lifestyle and medical interventions in tandem to promote healthy longevity. He has published more than 50 scientific publications in leading journals such as The Lancet, JAMA, JAMA Neurology, Diabetes Care, Critical Care, and Alzheimer’s and Dementia. His research has been funded by the National Institute on Ageing, the National Eye Institute, the Alzheimer's Association, and the American Heart Association.