Charlene Wong | Scholars@Duke

Charlene Wong
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

I specialize in adolescent and young adult medicine and health services research. Clinically, I love serving as both a primary care physician to young people ages 12-26, while also providing specialized care to this population. The types of care I specialize in include addressing young people's reproductive health concerns (for example, menstrual or contraceptive issues), chronic illnesses, behavioral challenges, and developmental difficulties. My focus is on providing high quality medical care to youth through respect for each individual, support of their physical and emotional growth, and education to empower them to be thriving, independent adults. I also spend a substantial amount of my time being an advocate for young people through health policy and research.

In my health services research, I study behavior change and health engagement, leveraging principles from behavioral economics, employing youth- and person-centered research methodologies, and informing health policy. My research is based out of the Department of Pediatrics, the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. I direct health behaviors and needs research in the Duke Children's Health & Discovery Initiative and am the Associate Program Director for the National Clinical Scholars Program at Duke. I am also a faculty member in the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research.

Outside of work, I enjoy spending time in the outdoors with my husband and two children.

Current Research Interests

Behavior change, behavioral economics, adolescent and young adult health, health policy

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Primary Care Pediatrics, Pediatrics 2017
Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2019
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Institutes and Centers 2017

Contact Information

charlene.wong@duke.edu

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Adolescent Medicine Fellow, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 2014 - 2016
- Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 2013 - 2015
- M.S.P.H., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 2015
- Internship and Residency, Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine 2010 - 2013
- M.D., Emory University School of Medicine 2010
Medical Licensure
- 2016-02271. North Carolina. 2017
Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke
- - Associate Program Director, National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at Duke
  - Scientific Lead (Health Behaviors and Needs), Duke Children’s Health and Discovery Initiative (CHDI), Duke University
  - Faculty steering committee, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Expertise
Subject Headings
Research
Selected Grants
- Financial and Social Behavioral Economic Incentives to Increase Physical Activity in Adolescents and Young Adults for Cardiovascular Health awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Vulimiri, M, Bleser, WK, Saunders, RS, Madanay, F, Moseley, C, McGuire, HF, Ubel, PA, McKethan, A, McClellan, M, and Wong, CA. "Engaging Beneficiaries In Medicaid Programs That Incentivize Health-Promoting Behaviors." Health Affairs (Project Hope) 38, no. 3 (March 2019): 431-439. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Ellsworth, E, Madanay, F, Chandrasekaran, D, Moore, M, Polsky, D, and Ubel, PA. "The Roles Of Assisters And Automated Decision Support Tools In Consumers' Marketplace Choices: Room For Improvement." Health Affairs (Project Hope) 38, no. 3 (March 2019): 473-481. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Hernandez, AF, and Califf, RM. "Providing Individual Research Results to Participants-Reply." Jama 320, no. 24 (December 2018): 2601-null. (Letter) Full Text
  - Armstrong, S, Wong, CA, Perrin, E, Page, S, Sibley, L, and Skinner, A. "Association of Physical Activity With Income, Race/Ethnicity, and Sex Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States: Findings From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2016." Jama Pediatrics 172, no. 8 (August 2018): 732-740. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Hernandez, AF, and Califf, RM. "Return of Research Results to Study Participants: Uncharted and Untested." Jama 320, no. 5 (August 2018): 435-436. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Kulhari, S, McGeoch, EJ, Jones, AT, Weiner, J, Polsky, D, and Baker, T. "Shopping on the Public and Private Health Insurance Marketplaces: Consumer Decision Aids and Plan Presentation." Journal of General Internal Medicine 33, no. 8 (August 2018): 1400-1410. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Perrin, JM, and McClellan, M. "Making the Case for Value-Based Payment Reform in Children's Health Care." Jama Pediatrics 172, no. 6 (June 2018): 513-514. Full Text
  - Chaiyachati, KH, Hom, JK, Hubbard, RA, Wong, C, and Grande, D. "Evaluating the association between the built environment and primary care access for new Medicaid enrollees in an urban environment using Walk and Transit Scores." Preventive medicine reports 9 (March 2018): 24-28. Full Text
  - Kratka, A, Wong, CA, Herrmann, R, Hong, K, Karediya, A, Yang, I, and Ubel, PA. "Finding Health Care Prices Online-How Difficult Is It to Be an Informed Health-Care Consumer?." JAMA internal medicine 178, no. 3 (March 2018): 423-424. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Miller, VA, Murphy, K, Small, D, Ford, CA, Willi, SM, Feingold, J, Morris, A, Ha, YP, Zhu, J, Wang, W, and Patel, MS. "Effect of Financial Incentives on Glucose Monitoring Adherence and Glycemic Control Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: A Randomized Clinical Trial." Jama Pediatrics 171, no. 12 (December 2017): 1176-1183. Full Text
  - Faherty, LJ, Wong, CA, Feingold, J, Li, J, Town, R, Fieldston, E, and Werner, RM. "Pediatric Price Transparency: Still Opaque With Opportunities for Improvement." Hospital Pediatrics 7, no. 10 (October 2017): 565-571. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Kan, K, Cidav, Z, Nathenson, R, and Polsky, D. "Pediatric and Adult Physician Networks in Affordable Care Act Marketplace Plans." Pediatrics 139, no. 4 (April 2017). Full Text
  - Harris, SK, Aalsma, MC, Weitzman, ER, Garcia-Huidobro, D, Wong, C, Hadland, SE, Santelli, J, Park, MJ, and Ozer, EM. "Research on Clinical Preventive Services for Adolescents and Young Adults: Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go?." The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 60, no. 3 (March 2017): 249-260. (Review) Full Text
  - Wang, AZ, Scherr, KA, Wong, CA, and Ubel, PA. "Poor Consumer Comprehension and Plan Selection Inconsistencies Under the 2016 HealthCare.gov Choice Architecture." Mdm Policy & Practice 2, no. 1 (January 2017). Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Bain, A, Polsky, D, Merchant, RM, Antwi, YA, Slap, G, Rubin, D, and Ford, CA. "The Use and Out-of-Pocket Cost of Urgent Care Clinics and Retail-Based Clinics by Adolescents and Young Adults Compared With Children." The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 60, no. 1 (January 2017): 107-112. Full Text
  - Strane, D, French, B, Eder, J, Wong, CA, Noonan, KG, and Rubin, DM. "Low-Income Working Families With Employer-Sponsored Insurance Turn To Public Insurance For Their Children." Health Affairs (Project Hope) 35, no. 12 (December 2016): 2302-2309. Full Text
  - Bain, A, Wong, CA, Slap, G, Polsky, D, Merchant, RM, Akosa Antwi, Y, Rubin, D, and Ford, CA. "Common and Costly Hospitalizations Among Insured Young Adults Since the Affordable Care Act." The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 59, no. 1 (July 2016): 61-67. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Polsky, DE, Jones, AT, Weiner, J, Town, RJ, and Baker, T. "For Third Enrollment Period, Marketplaces Expand Decision Support Tools To Assist Consumers." Health Affairs (Project Hope) 35, no. 4 (April 2016): 680-687. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Ostapovich, G, Kramer-Golinkoff, E, Griffis, H, Asch, DA, and Merchant, RM. "How U.S. children's hospitals use social media: A mixed methods study." Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 4, no. 1 (March 2016): 15-21. Full Text
  - Hom, JK, Wong, C, Stillson, C, Zha, J, Cannuscio, CC, Cahill, R, and Grande, D. "New Medicaid Enrollees See Health and Social Benefits in Pennsylvania's Expansion." Inquiry : a Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing 53 (January 2016). Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Ford, CA, French, B, and Rubin, DM. "Changes in Young Adult Primary Care Under the Affordable Care Act." American journal of public health 105 Suppl 5 (November 2015): S680-S685. Full Text
  - Wong, C, Nirenburg, G, Polsky, D, Town, R, and Baker, T. "Insurance plan presentation and decision support on HealthCare.gov and state-based web sites created for the Affordable Care Act." Annals of Internal Medicine 163, no. 4 (August 2015): 327-328. (Letter) Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Asch, DA, Vinoya, CM, Ford, CA, Baker, T, Town, R, and Merchant, RM. "Seeing Health Insurance and HealthCare.gov Through the Eyes of Young Adults." The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 57, no. 2 (August 2015): 137-143. Full Text
  - Merchant, RM, Ha, YP, Wong, CA, Schwartz, HA, Sap, M, Ungar, LH, and Asch, DA. "The 2013 US Government Shutdown (#Shutdown) and health: an emerging role for social media." American Journal of Public Health 104, no. 12 (December 2014): 2248-2250. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Merchant, RM, and Moreno, MA. "Using social media to engage adolescents and young adults with their health." Healthcare 2, no. 4 (December 2014): 220-224. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Asch, DA, Vinoya, CM, Ford, CA, Baker, T, Town, R, and Merchant, RM. "The experience of young adults on HealthCare.gov: suggestions for improvement." Annals of Internal Medicine 161, no. 3 (August 2014): 231-232. (Letter) Full Text
  - Redwood, D, Suryaprasad, A, Haverkamp, D, Wong, C, Provost, E, and Espey, D. "Evaluating an Electronic Measure of Colorectal Cancer Screening at Indian Health Service Facilities, 2008-2010." The IHS primary care provider 39, no. 6 (June 2014): 86-93.
  - Wong, CA, Gachupin, FC, Holman, RC, MacDorman, MF, Cheek, JE, Holve, S, and Singleton, RJ. "American Indian and Alaska Native infant and pediatric mortality, United States, 1999-2009." American journal of public health 104 Suppl 3 (June 2014): S320-S328. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Davis, JC, Asch, DA, and Shugerman, RP. "Political tug-of-war and pediatric residency funding." The New England journal of medicine 369, no. 25 (December 2013): 2372-2374. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Taylor, JA, Wright, JA, Opel, DJ, and Katzenellenbogen, RA. "Missed opportunities for adolescent vaccination, 2006-2011." The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 53, no. 4 (October 2013): 492-497. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Berkowitz, Z, Dorell, CG, Anhang Price, R, Lee, J, and Saraiya, M. "Human papillomavirus vaccine uptake among 9- to 17-year-old girls: National Health Interview Survey, 2008." Cancer 117, no. 24 (December 2011): 5612-5620. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Jim, MA, King, J, Tom-Orme, L, Henderson, JA, Saraiya, M, Richardson, LC, Layne, L, Suryaprasad, A, and Espey, DK. "Impact of hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy prevalence on rates of cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancer among American Indian and Alaska Native women, 1999-2004." Cancer causes & control : CCC 22, no. 12 (December 2011): 1681-1689. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Cuda, S, and Kirsch, A. "A review of the urologic manifestations of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome." Journal of pediatric urology 7, no. 2 (April 2011): 140-144. (Review) Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Saraiya, M, Hariri, S, Eckert, L, Howlett, RI, Markowitz, LE, Brotherton, JML, Sinka, K, Martinez-Montañez, OG, Kjaer, SK, and Dunne, EF. "Approaches to monitoring biological outcomes for HPV vaccination: challenges of early adopter countries." Vaccine 29, no. 5 (January 2011): 878-885. (Review) Full Text
  - Wong, C, Berkowitz, Z, Saraiya, M, Wideroff, L, and Benard, VB. "US physicians' intentions regarding impact of human papillomavirus vaccine on cervical cancer screening." Sexual health 7, no. 3 (September 2010): 338-345. Full Text
  - Wong, C, Krashin, J, Rue-Cover, A, Saraiya, M, Unger, E, Calugar, A, and Markowitz, L. "Invasive and in situ cervical cancer reported to the vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS)." Journal of Women'S Health (2002) 19, no. 3 (March 2010): 365-370. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Sap, M, Schwartz, A, Town, R, Baker, T, Ungar, L, and Merchant, RM. "Twitter Sentiment Predicts Affordable Care Act Marketplace Enrollment(Published online)." Journal of Medical Internet Research 17, no. 2: e51-e51. Full Text
- Conference Papers
  - Wong, C, Greeno, J, Perrin, E, Peterson, E, Chung, R, and Skinner, A. "SEX, DRUGS & READY TO ROLL: YOUNG ADULT PATIENT-REPORTED HEALTH OUTCOMES & BEHAVIORS." February 2018. Link to Item
  - Wong, CA, Greeno, J, Perrin, E, Peterson, E, Chung, R, and Skinner, A. "YOUNG AND NOT SO INVINCIBLE: HEALTH BEHAVIORS AND PATIENT-REPORTED HEALTH OUTCOMES AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS." February 2018. Link to Item
  - Wong, CA, Saltzman, E, Ford, CA, and Town, R. "Young Adults Make Different Health Plan Choices on ACA Exchange Than Older Adults." February 2017. Full Text
  - Hom, J, Wong, C, Stillson, CH, Zha, J, Cannuscio, CC, Cahill, RM, and Grande, D. "NEW MEDICAID ENROLLEES SEE HEALTH AND SOCIAL BENEFITS IN PENNSYLVANIA'S EXPANSION." May 2016. Link to Item
  - Wong, C, Faherty, LJ, Feingold, J, Town, R, and Werner, R. "Price Transparency for Children and Adolescent Healthcare in the United States: Still Opaque in 2015." February 2016. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Asch, DA, Vinoya, CM, Ford, CA, Baker, T, Town, R, and Merchant, RM. "1. The Young Adult Perspective on Health Insurance." February 2015. Full Text
  - Wong, CA, Bain, AM, Antwi, YA, Merchant, RM, Slap, G, Polsky, DE, and Ford, CA. "86. Inpatient Hospitalizations Among Insured Young Adults, 2012-2013, United States." February 2015. Full Text

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