Matthew L. Turissini, MD

Bio

Matthew Turissini, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya. He works clinically as a hospitalist at Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital. He lived in Kenya for four years working with the IU Center for Global Health as the Internal Medicine Team Leader and Associate Field Director for Population Health providing medical education, growing the AMPATH Population Health program, and delivering clinical care at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH).

Along with collaborators at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and Moi University, he develops and implements mental health care programs and does implementation science research in Kenya. With Dr. Florence Jaguga of MTRH, he co-leads the AMPATH AYAM mental health care programs including opening Kenya’s first psychiatric rehabilitation center for patients with severe mental illness, providing mentorship to establish mental health care at lower-level facilities, and implementing community-based group care for people with substance use disorders, and implementing a school mental health program in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. He co-chairs the AMPATH-Kenya Mental Health Working Group with Dr. Eunice Temet.