Elgin Yalin is a fourth-year medical student originally from Elon, North Carolina. Prior to medical school, Elgin was first introduced to quality improvement (QI) when she spent three years working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the San Francisco Tuberculosis Control Clinic and at the Washington District of Columbia Department of Health HIV Surveillance. Through her public health career, she developed a strong interest in health equity and the relation to infectious disease incidence and outcomes. She completed a QI project in her third year of medical school on improving adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) screening rates at one month well child visits. She plans to strengthen her QI research background to improve quality of health care and further equitable access. This year as a Clinician Leadership Quality and Safety Scholar she is working with Dr. Zachary Willis to improve infectious diagnostic stewardship in the PICU.
CLQS Project
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Algorithm for New Infectious Workup
Mentor
Zachary Inskeep Willis, MD, MPH, Pediatric Director, Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Disease
