Kristina Rudd, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is core faculty in the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA), and practices clinically as a pulmonary and critical care physician at UPMC Magee Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Rudd’s NIH-funded research program focuses on global sepsis epidemiology and management, with an emphasis on resource-variable settings. Her current work investigates the spatially-patterned, syndemic relationships between social and biologic features that impact an individual’s risk for sepsis.