Steering Committee - Biography

Suma Vupputuri, PhD

Research Investigator with The Center for Health Research / Southeast at Kaiser Permanente Georgia (KPGA), and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology with the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University

Dr. Vupputuri is an epidemiologist with research interests in cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease epidemiology, social inequalities in the burden of disease and health care, quality of care, and patient outcomes. She has worked on many large, population-based studies including the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, The Strong Heart Study, and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Currently Dr. Vupputuri is an investigator on a CDC funded project titled: “Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine: Quality/Performance Evaluation in CKD”. The objective of this project is to undertake a program of evaluation for laboratory quality performance measurement in chronic kidney disease.

Dr. Vupputuri received her doctoral and masters degrees in epidemiology in 1996 and 2001, respectively, from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She completed a 2 year post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences before taking a faculty position in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina for 4 years. Dr. Vupputuri has been at The Center for Health Research / Southeast at KPGA since March 2008.

CVRN Center: KPSE Center for Health Research