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Kathleen
Li
MD, MS

Faculty
Population Health
Pinned
Academic
Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Sites of Practice
University of Washington Medical Center - Northwest

biography

Dr. Li is an emergency physician and health services researcher. She works clinically in the Emergency Departments at UW Medical Center – Northwest and Harborview Medical Center. She is committed to improving patients' access to timely and high-value acute unscheduled care. Her research interests have been shaped by her clinical experiences with ED crowding, quality improvement, and patient safety. Her current work focuses on improving emergency care delivery for older adults and how telehealth and other modalities of care can be optimized to create more accessible, affordable, and equitable acute care delivery systems.

Education & Training: 

  • MD, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA (2015)
  • Residency, Mount Sinai Hospital and Elmhurst Hospital Center, New York, NY (2019)
  • MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2020)

research & clinical interests

Research Interests: 

  • Site of care optimization for acute unscheduled care
  • Aging
  • Telehealth
  • Cost and quality of emergency care
  • Health Policy

publications