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My main goals in my current career are providing excellent patient care and working to improve that care through quality improvement programs. In conjunction with multiple collaborators, areas of QI research that I am actively involved in at this point include removing inappropriate penicillin allergy labels, improving treatment of infusion reactions by infusion nurses and improving vaccination rates in immunocompromised patients through provider education. Additionally, I have an interest in the off target effects of immunosuppressive biologics and new small molecule drugs (such as JAK inhibitors) that may cause immune defects in the course of therapy.<\/p>\n

Awards and Honors<\/h2>\n

9\/2020-8\/2021 UNC IHQI Improvement Scholars Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; 3\/2019 & 12\/2020 UNC Health Care and UNC Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2358,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[104,106,75,85,103,82,70],"class_list":["post-3545","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-all-faculty-profiles","ud_division-allergy-provider","ud_division-faculty","ud_division-faculty-thurston-arthritis-research-center","ud_division-our-faculty-syndication","ud_division-rheumatology-clinical-directors","ud_division-thurston-arthritis-research-center","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Kwan","ud_first_name":"Mildred","ud_gallery_summary":"","ud_telephone":[{"ud_location":"Office","ud_number":"9849742645"}],"ud_email":"mildred_kwan@med.unc.edu","ud_positions":[{"ud_title":"Associate Professor of Medicine"},{"ud_title":"Medical Director, UNC Allergy & Immunology Clinic at Eastowne"},{"ud_title":"Director of Quality Improvement"}],"ud_options":[],"ud_sort_order":""},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1286\/2022\/02\/kwan.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1286\/2022\/02\/kwan-215x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1286\/2022\/02\/kwan.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1286\/2022\/02\/kwan.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1286\/2022\/02\/kwan-150x150.jpg","yoast_head":"\nMildred Kwan, MD, PhD - Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/people\/mildred-kwan-md-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mildred Kwan, MD, PhD - Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My main goals in my current career are providing excellent patient care and working to improve that care through quality improvement programs. 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