Bio: Dr. Tupetz is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine and the Global Emergency Medicine Innovation and Implementation Research Center at Duke University School of Medicine. She is also a practicing Physical Therapist within the Duke University Health System. Through her work at GEMINI, she has been involved in a variety of research projects spanning from a research capacity building training program and trauma care research in Moshi Tanzania, to snakebite research in North Carolina as well as Brazil, as well as North Carolina qualitative studies on patient and provider challenges to access or provide care.

She has recently been awarded the NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellowship, to analyze the burden of unscheduled re-hospitalizations to KCMC of patients previously hospitalized  due to secondary complications, and identify potential intervention strategies to prevent re-hospitalizations.

Dr. Tupetz focuses her own research work on the challenges and factors impacting access to quality care from the patient as well as provider side, with a special attention on implementation research and intervention development designs.