Associate Professor, Urology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Katherine H. Chan, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Urology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dr. Katherine Chan completed medical school at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, followed by Urology residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. She completed a three-year pediatric urology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in 2013. She also completed the Harvard-wide Pediatric Health Services Fellowship, earning a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Chan was an Assistant Professor of Urology at Indiana University School of Medicine for over 7 years where she was co-director of the pediatric kidney stone clinic at Riley Hospital for Children. Dr. Chan joined UNC in 2021, bringing her respective expertise in stone management as Director of the Pediatric Kidney Stone Program and health services research as the Director Pediatric Urology Research.
As a surgeon-scientist, Dr. Chan has been principal investigator for multiple NIH-funded research projects over the past 5 years including a K23 Career Development Award. Her current research focus is developing and pilot testing a decision-making tool for parents whose children have hypospadias. Her team recently resubmitted their R01 application to the NIH in March 2023 to compare the effect of their decision-making tool versus usual care on the quality of shared decision-making. They are also creating a patient-centered outcomes tool to study the long-term effects in adolescents and young adults after hypospadias repair as children. Dr. Chan is a member of the Hypospadias Task Force of the Societies of Pediatric Urology. She serves as a reviewer for multiple journals including the Journal of Pediatric Urology and the Journal of Urology. Finally, she is training to become a certified executive coach and is pursuing research on coaching interventions to address burnout in urology.
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Sunday, April 30, 2023
8:00 AM – 8:25 AM CST