Anet Prvu Bettger
Biography
Dr. Anet Prvu Bettger ScD, FAHA is an associate professor and health services researcher at the Duke University School of
Nursing and Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), and a Senior Fellow of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. She serves as a Senior Scientist for the Duke Translational
Nursing Institute (DTNI) and is a Fellow of the American Heart Association. Dr. Bettger received her BA from the University of Western Ontario, Canada and her MS from the University of Wisconsin–LaCrosse where she studied community reintegration for
stroke and brain-injured patients transitioning from hospital to home. Her doctoral training in
Rehabilitation Sciences, completed at Boston University, concluded with an
investigation of patterns of functional recovery and factors affecting outcomes in patients transitioning home following acute rehabilitation. While working on her doctorate, she also worked in state government as the director of the Paul Coverdell National Acute
Stroke Registry. Dr. Bettger completed post-doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania with a NIH NRSA research fellowship in neurorehabilitation, a research fellowship at the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, and a Switzer Fellowship funded by the National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research to study the role of the environment on functional outcomes. She completed additional research training at Duke as a mentored scholar in comparative effectiveness research funded by AHRQ. Dr. Prvu Bettger's areas of research interest include quality of care, care coordination, access to care, transitions in care, organizational change and quality improvement, team-based care, integration of health and social service systems, comparative effectiveness, function and participation outcomes,
stroke rehabilitation and recovery, social networks, and social environment.
Research Interest
quality of care, care coordination, access to care, transitions in care, organizational change and quality improvement, team-based care, integration of health and social service systems, comparative effectiveness, function and participation outcomes, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, social networks, and social environment.
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