Dr. Karina Whelan is the Co-Director of the core third-year outpatient clerkship. She taught the third-year quality improvement (QI) curriculum for six years and was the QI Clinic Lead for UNC Internal Medicine at Panther Creek.
Dr. Whelan developed and implemented a health equity focused QI curriculum for medical students, thus providing students with experiential learning that taught them how to battle systemic health disparities through QI. She is also collaborating with the UNC Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Center to improve primary care access for adults with CF. She is an active member of the CF QI Team and a 2024 Program for Adult Care Excellence Grant Recipient.
Dr. Whelan has mentored 4th-year medical students through the Clinician Leadership in Quality and Safety (CLQS) Scholarly Concentration. Her CLQS mentee projects have focused on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) screening and diabetes health equity in Hispanic, Latinx and Spanish-speaking patients.
