Janis Tupesis, MD

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LEADERSHIP POSITIONS HELD

Advisory Committee Member, UW–Madison Global Health Institute

EDUCATION

Undergraduate: George Mason University
Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Residency: University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics – Chief Resident

Dr. Janis P. Tupesis completed his residency training at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics where he served as the Associate Residency Program Director, a position he held until joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He served as the Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director until 2014, overseeing the program’s initial accreditation and expansion to its current form. At the same time, he served as the chairperson of UW Health’s Graduate Medical Education Global Health Committee. He is a former Associate Director and current advisory committee member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Global Health Institute.

He has been involved in projects involving establishing graduate medical education programs in resource limited settings in both Liberia, Ethiopia and South Africa – partnering with multiple other academic institutions. In 2018, he begun work with the World Bank and the Association of African Universities on the Africa Centers of Excellence for Development (ACE Impact) Project, which aims to improve the quality, quantity and development impact of postgraduate education in selected universities through regional specialization and collaboration. He helps oversee the Centers of Excellence (Health) in numerous countries in the west African sub-region.

Dr. Tupesis serves on multiple international global health education committees, including the International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM), African Federation of Emergency Medicine (AFEM), American College of Emergency Medicine (ACEP) and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine – Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA). In 2018, he was awarded the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award by GEMA for his work on emergency care health/education systems development. More recently, Dr. Tupesis was awarded the Order of the IFEM in 2020 for his extensive and continuous commitment to the specialty of Emergency Medicine.

Outside of work, Dr. Tupesis enjoys traveling, adventure medicine and mountaineering, UW–Madison athletics, and spending time with his wife and children.