Brittany E. Punches

Brittany E. Punches studies mental health and substance use outcomes in emergency department settings, with a focus on trauma, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and opioid use disorder. Her work often combines clinical cohort studies with genetic, biomarker, and machine learning approaches to understand who is at risk for negative outcomes after trauma or opioid exposure, and to improve screening and intervention in emergency care.

Publication output has grown substantially over the last decade, rising from a handful of papers per year before 2020 to over 20-50 per year since 2023, indicating an increasingly active and productive research program.

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