Kenton Dover, MD

Kenton Dover, MD, is a physician in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine and Medical Director of the UNC Medical Center Medicine Intensive Care Unit. He serves as physician lead for the UNC Hospitals Mortality Reduction and CLABSI Advisory programs and co-chairs the Resuscitation Committee, where he focuses on system-level reliability, prevention of harm, and rapid learning from serious events. Dr. Dover’s quality improvement interests include infection prevention, sepsis and resuscitation care, clinical deterioration recognition and response, and interdisciplinary teamwork. He is also Course Director for the Critical Care Medicine Student Selective and co-directs the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Point-of-Care Ultrasound curriculum, integrating quality and safety principles into education for trainees and interprofessional staff