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Dr. Katherine L Welter serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is a member of the Division of Hospital Medicine. Since joining in 2018, she has held key roles including Medical Director for an inpatient unit and Chair of the Clinical Practice & Quality Committee, driving initiatives in quality improvement, patient safety, and medical education.
Her educational background comprises:
- MD from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (2015)
- Internal Medicine Residency at Rush University Medical Center (2018)
- Certificate in Quality and Patient Safety Improvement
Dr. Welter's clinical and research efforts are dedicated to combating the opioid crisis through innovative quality improvement projects. She has led initiatives on safe opioid prescribing, naloxone distribution for high-risk patients, and reducing hospital length of stay via enhanced social work integration and team communication. Her educational activities focus on training residents in opioid use disorder management and modeling exemplary teaching practices.
Her awards and recognitions include:
- Best Efficiency & Growth Quality Improvement Project, NM Improvement Day (2023)
- Excellence in Project Leadership, Division of Hospital Medicine (2023)
- Best Efficiency & Growth Quality Improvement Project, NMH Improvement Day (2022)
- Excellence in Project Leadership, Division of Hospital Medicine (2020)
- Top Academy of Quality and Safety Improvement Project 2020, Northwestern Memorial Hospital (2020)
- Exemplary Role Modeling in the Learning Environment, Feinberg School of Medicine (2019)
Dr. Welter actively contributes to Northwestern's system-wide safe pain and opioid use committees and chairs the Division of Hospital Medicine Clinical Practice & Quality Committee, which developed a quality dashboard for hospitalist performance feedback. She is a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine (since 2019) and the American College of Physicians (since 2011).
