ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022

Kristina E. Rudd, MD, MPH, is a pulmonary and critical care physician and clinical researcher in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine, where she also completed her Internal Medicine residency and Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine fellowship training, T32 research fellowship, and MPH in Epidemiology. She is core faculty in the University of Pittsburgh’s Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center. Dr. Rudd is currently funded on a NIGMS K23 career development award. Her research focuses on sepsis epidemiology from a global perspective, with a special expertise in resource-variable settings. Her research on sepsis epidemiology and on methods to identify sepsis patients has been published in JAMA and The Lancet. Her current work investigates the syndemic relationships between social and medical features that impact an individual’s risk for developing or dying from sepsis. She has particular interest in the impact of poverty, multimorbidity, and healthcare access and quality on sepsis incidence. Dr. Rudd also studies the clinical management of patients with sepsis, hemorrhage, acute kidney injury, traumatic brain injury, and other critical illnesses in resource-variable settings. She has collaborated on research in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Thailand.