Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Michael Craig and Dr. Meera Udayakumar presents “Hospital-at-Home: The UNC Advanced Care at Home Experience.”

Dr. Craig has been a practicing hospitalist since 2009.  He began his hospitalist career at WakeMed and then joined the faculty at UNC full-time in 2015.  At UNC he has devoted effort to reduce low-value care including reducing unnecessary cardiac telemetry as part of the Department of Medicine Value Action Group and reducing admissions of syncope patients as an IHQI Clinical Scholar.  He has also presented an Update in Hospital Medicine lecture annually since 2012 at UNC, NC AHEC sites and several regional conferences.  Leadership roles have included Associate Chief of Clinical Operations for the Division of Hospital Medicine, District 4 (NC, SC, VA & TN) Chair for the Society of Hospital Medicine and Co-Physician Lead of the UNC Health Systemwide Hospitalist Group.  He also serves a Physician Advisor for the Department of Care Management.  Since 2021, he has participated in the launch and growth of Advanced Care at Home, UNC Health’s hospital-at-home program, as the program’s Associate Medical Director.

Dr. Udayakumar serves as Medical Director for Advanced Care at Home and Executive Medical Director of Quality and Innovation for Triangle East. She has been a Hospitalist at UNC Rex since 2008, where she currently serves as the Chair of Medicine for Rex Physicians.  Her prior leadership roles include Chair of the Rex Medical Executive Committee, Medical Director of the Rex Hospitalist team and President of the Triangle Society of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Udayakumar has been named a senior fellow in hospital medicine by the Society of Hospital Medicine and has completed advanced leadership training through the Center for Creative Leadership, as well as the North Carolina Medical Society.  She completed medical education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and residency training in internal medicine at Duke University Hospital.