Renuka Tipirneni, MD, MSc, FACP

Dr. Tipirneni is a physician-investigator in the Division of General Medicine at the University of Michigan. She completed medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and health services research training in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. Dr. Tipirneni’s research interests focus on investigating health insurance policy, promoting health equity and addressing social determinants of health in health care settings.

My main research interests focus on investigating and enhancing the effectiveness of health policies and programs for disadvantaged populations. Prior and current work includes examining variation in health insurance policies (e.g., Medicaid and Medicare), assessing patient- and community-level measures of social disadvantage, and improving health care delivery models, such as those addressing unmet social needs to improve population health.