Dr. Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu joins the School of Medicine as an Associate Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Tuakli-Wosornu is a board-certified physiatrist specializing 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 is skilled in such innovative treatments as image-guided joint and spine injections, as well as regenerative treatments that help many athletes heal from injuries faster and better.
When she works with patients, Tuakli-Wosornu often draws upon her personal experience as an athlete. She is a long jumper who represented the Ghana National Team until 2016. She also represented Ghana as part of the eight-member International Paralympic Committee medical committee.
As a physician-scientist, she works with numerous global sport and rehabilitation organizations and is the founding director of the Sports Equity Lab, a research group delivering athlete-centered content that tackles inequities in sport such as discrimination, social exclusion, disability stigma, harassment, abuse, and neglect, using translational bio-psychosocial science.
Tuakli-Wosornu earned her MD from Harvard Medical School, a MPH in Human Nutrition from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a BA in African Studies from Yale College. She performed an internship in internal medicine with Medstar Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore; a PM&R residency with the University of Maryland; and an Interventional Spine and Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York.