Public Health Approaches

Jessica Pelletier, DO, MHPE is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Residency Program Director at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Pelletier attended medical school at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, residency at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, fellowship in Medical Education at Washington University in St. Louis, and completed her Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She serves as the African Medical Advisor with Techies Without Borders, a global nonprofit that delivers continuing medical education to resource-constrained regions. Dr. Pelletier's interests include procedural and simulation education and the human factors of the high-acuity applications of this teaching, the use of osteopathic manipulative therapy (OMT) in the emergency department, and expanding emergency medicine to regions where it is not fully developed as a specialty.