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 the impact of health reform policies and programs on low socioeconomic status, racial/ethnic minority, aging and vulnerable populations, and on delivery of care in the health care safety net. My current work examines Medicaid, Medicare and other health insurance policy, assessments of social determinants of health in clinical practice, and measuring and incentivizing equity in health care quality improvement activities.