Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu
Assistant Professor Adjunct of Epidemiology (Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu, MD, MPH is a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) physician, also known as a physiatrist. A physiatrist focuses on treating problems with the muscles, joints and nerves without surgery.
Dr. Tuakli-Wosornu specializes in interventional spine and sports medicine treatments, helping people achieve high physical and athletic performance at all stages of life through “holistic mind-body development” and therapies. She approaches her work with a sense of compassion and innovation. Physiatry allows “my experiences as a physician, athlete and public health advocate to dovetail,” she says.
She is also a co-founder of BambooAbility, an initiative focused on mobility equipment.
“For persons with disabilities in low-resource and tropical settings, barriers to mobility and physical activity are steep. Our initiative, BambooAbility, sees the development and design for manufacture of low-cost, durable, sustainable, purpose-built personal mobility equipment in order to support wheelchair users and others with mobility impairment in low-resource and tropical settings.”