Dr Pueschel is a cohort 2 TRECK trainee with a thesis looking at the prevalence and determinants of catastrophic health expenditure among surgically treated trauma patients under the mentorship of Blandina Mmbaga MD PhD, Catherine Staton MD MSc and Emily Smith PhD. Through GEMINI she is involved in the study to look at DALYs among pediatric trauma patients at KCMC and she will be working on projects involving Global Surgery and Implementation science. She hopes that her thesis will add financial data for effective interventions and their cost effectiveness to improve surgical care.

Dr Pueschel is a medical doctor trained at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. She has had interest with global surgery; research and implementation science since she was a fourth year medical student and this has motivated her involvement in this field. She has worked as a National research coordinator of Incision, which is a network of more than 5000 medical students and junior medical doctors who address global surgery through advocacy, training and research. During her time at Incision they were able to come out with a publication.

(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35106648/) which has highlighted the need for global surgery training especially in limited resource settings.

She also worked as a research assistant for the Tanzania Oxford Global surgery Collaboration and through this collaboration she was able to co- author studies, which have been published in peer reviewed journals.

(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36384935/) 

(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35412059/) all of which have helped to create evidence-based interventions among pediatric surgery patients. She has further assisted in a study on gastroschisis, which has helped increase survival rates of children born with gastroschisis from 0% to 60%. She participated in a systemic analysis, which looked at authorship demographics in global surgery. 

(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34666988/) which also highlighted the shortage of authors in global surgery from LMICs, women being least involved. All these have contributed towards wanting to build her career in global surgery, implementation science and health economics.

She spends her free time with family, and watching TV shows Tipping point being her favorite TV show.