Dr. Dupnik is a physician-scientist who studies differential human immune response to mycobacterial pathogens, focusing on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. leprae. After receiving her medical degree from the University of Virginia, she completed Internal Medicine residency training at NY Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University Medical Center. Her Infectious Diseases fellowship training was with Weill Cornell Medicine, during which time she lived and worked in Natal, Brazil for her research. Dr. Dupnik is now an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, as well as faculty in the Center for Global Health. Dr. Dupnik studies the pathologic immune reactions of leprosy and assessment of the dynamics of coinfection with M. tuberculosis and HIV. She authored the M. leprae chapter for the 9th edition of Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases.