Trog & Brett Talking Money Over Pints in New York City.
Dr. Trogdon and Brett have both studied and learned a lot about financial planning, management, risk taking, and the unique emotional connection that everyone has with money. While Dr. Trogdon has a formal academic background in economics, Brett has a history of taking financial risks and building businesses to various degrees of success and failure. Together they dissect and simplify some of the financial decisions they have debated over the course of their friendship.
Dr. Justin Trogdon (AKA Trog) is a tenured Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Baylor University with a BS in Economics. He went on to earn his Master’s Degree and PhD from Duke University.
As a health economist, his current research focuses on answering policy-relevant questions in three areas: the economic burden of cancer, evaluating the cost-effectiveness of health related government policies, and development of methods to identify effects of government policies.
Prior to his faculty appointment, Dr. Trogdon was a Senior Research Health Economist in the Public Health Economics Program at Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) and a visiting instructor at Duke University.
Dr. Trogdon’s economic research has been published globally and cited over 44,500 times. His work has been referenced globally including a United States Supreme Court decision, BBC, and ESPN.
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Selections of Dr. Trogdon’s Work & Key References:
Brett, also a Baylor University graduate with a BBA in Entrepreneurship and French is a battle scarred serial entrepreneur with experience in tech, athletic apparel, and specialty retail. He started a business selling customized athletic apparel to sororities while a student Baylor University, designed an e-commerce platform networking hundreds of specialty retail stores across the country and supported their first endeavors into online retail, and united the fitness community of San Francisco while selling tens of millions of dollars of running shoes and apparel.
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