Janis P. Tupesis

Janis P. Tupesis serves as a distinguished faculty member at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health's Department of Emergency Medicine, where he previously served as Residency Program Director until 2014. His expertise spans emergency medicine, global health education, and medical curriculum development. After completing his residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, where he later served as Associate Residency Program Director, he has focused on developing innovative educational curricula and evaluation methodologies. His work includes establishing graduate medical education programs in resource-limited settings across Africa, particularly in Liberia, Ethiopia, and South Africa. He chairs UW Health's Graduate Medical Education Global Health Committee and serves as the Graduate Medical Education liaison to UW-Madison's Global Health Institute. His international involvement extends to key roles with the International Federation of Emergency Medicine and African Federation of Emergency Medicine. Since 2015, he has contributed as a volunteer technical consultant to the World Health Organization's Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care Programme. Beyond his academic work, he maintains interests in adventure medicine, mountaineering, and UW athletics while balancing family life with his two children.