Duke Management Academy Scholars

Carrie Purbeck Trunzo

Title: Manager of Education & Outreach
Department: Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Class Year: 2025

Bio:
Early life experiences sharpened my awareness of the association between health care inequities and zip code. This awareness developed a commitment to process improvement, a call to spread knowledge, and obligation to identify supports that increase access to quality care. Initial career foci included developing biological models to understand the underlying cause of medical conditions in research labs at Cornell University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. After a decade, I pivoted my career focus to look up and out focusing on large-scale health care improvement. Upon receiving my Master's in Health Care Administration from the Gilling's School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill I joined the Duke family.

Over the past 14 years, I have proactively pursued both formal and informal leadership roles. Currently as the Co-Director of the Data and Evaluation Program for the UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress I lead a skilled and engaged team to measure and communicate the profound impact of our center and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, which serves 80,000 children and provides training to 90,000 professionals each quarter. Additionally, I co-developed an organization-level intervention that enhances trauma-informed practices and I am leading its dissemination across the United States.