CaroleMarieWardeMD

Summary

• Carole Warde is a clinician educator in General Internal Medicine. She completed a Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Washington, and an Ambulatory Research Fellowship and Medical Education Fellowship at the WLA VA and UCLA. She is currently practicing as a general internist and is the Director of the Center of Excellence Interprofessional Academic Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (COE IA HPACT). As a general internist, her clinical expertise is in the care of patients with complex psychosocial needs, preventive health care and use of lifestyle interventions in chronic disease management. As a medical educator, she has experience in curriculum, faculty and leadership development and has worked at the undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education levels. She is currently leading the Interprofessional faculty of COA IA HPACT as they develop innovative curricula to prepare graduates to work in and lead patient-centered interprofessional (IP) teams. The COE IA HPACT aims to train the next generation of health professionals to care for vulnerable patients in a way that builds patients’ self-efficacy while meeting their social, psychological, and physical needs, with empathy and teamwork. Humanism in medicine is central to the center’s activities, which include a relationship-centered culture building process, a faculty development program based in humanism and the development of a “pocket toolkit” of specific techniques that help caregivers stay humanistic in the care of patients with multiple challenges. Her other academic interests include physician career satisfaction and burnout, work-family balance, evidence-based medicine in clinical practice, and patient-centered interviewing.