Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH

Professor & Vice Chair of Research

Biographical Information

Dr. Donahue is a Professor and Director of Research at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Family Medicine. She co-directs the North Carolina Network Consortium (www.ncnc.unc.edu), a meta-network of seven practice-based research networks and four academic institutions in North Carolina. She is an active faculty member of the of the Community and Stakeholder Engagement Team (CaSE) Service for North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (the academic home of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). As part of CARES, Dr. Donahue engages communities, faculty, and health care providers as partners in clinical and translational research. She is married to Dr. Mark Donahue and they have two children. She enjoys running and Olympic weightlifting.

Areas of Interest

Dr. Donahue has a strong interest in primary care practice redesign, chronic disease care and prevention, health behavior change and collaborations among public health and primary care.

In The News

Researchers find combined therapy for RA may help speed remission

RTI and UNC-Chapel Hill researchers, including Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH, and Beth Jonas, MD, analyzed results from 22 studies to support combination therapy as a way improve outcomes for some rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Rethinking the Strip: $1.3 Million Will Put Discovery into Practice

A landmark UNC School of Medicine study showed that the finger prick blood glucose test is unnecessary for most people with type 2 diabetes, and now researchers Katrina Donahue and Laura Young received a PCORI grant to implement their findings across the country.
Is the finger-stick blood test necessary for type 2 diabetes treatment?

In the first large pragmatic trial of its kind in the United States, results from a UNC School of Medicine study show that checking finger-stick blood sugars may not help diabetes patients who do not use insulin. UNC Family Medicine’s research director, Dr. Katrina Donahue, was the senior author on the study.
To test or not to test: Blood glucose monitoring for patients with type 2 diabetes

UNC Family Medicine physician, Katrina Donahue, MD MPH, is part of a team of researchers to receive more than $2 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study glucose monitoring in non-insulin treated patients living with type 2 diabetes, The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved a research award to the University of … Continued