Michael Dulin, M.D., Ph.D.
Fellowship Year(s): 2020-2021
Profession: Physician
Specialty: Medicine - Family Medicine, Other (Please specify below): Health Analytics, Public Health
Fellowship Details:
Professor and Director
The Academy for Population Health Innovation (APHI) College of Health and Human Services The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Majority)
North Carolina
At time of Fellowship
Michael Dulin is a professor of public health sciences at University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the founder and director of the Academy for Population Health Innovation—an academic/public health collaborative designed to advance community health. Dulin is a family physician who has been recognized nationally as a leader in the fields of health information technology/advanced analytics, population health, and implementation science. He has led transformative research projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. His work to implement a centralized health care data/analytics team for Atrium Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the Southeast, was featured as a case study at the Harvard Business School.
Dulin started his career as an electrical engineer, advancing computer chip manufacturing and testing. He then completed doctoral research training where he examined the basic cellular changes that underlie responses to injury, as well as learning and memory. He translated his engineering and research skills to the health care industry, where he focused on enhancing clinical care delivery, improving access to primary care/preventative services, and ameliorating health inequities using technology. He has served in a wide range of leadership roles in academic medicine, health care system administration, public health, and the information technology industry.
Dulin received his BS in electrical and biomedical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his PhD and MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He completed family medicine residency training at Carolinas Medical Center, completed a fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed a career development program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Current Info:
Professor
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Since Fellowship:
Michael Dulin, MD, PhD is the Director of the Academy for Population Health Innovation at UNC Charlotte – a collaboration
designed to advance community and population health. Dulin started his career as an Electrical and Biomedical Engineer and
then received his MD/PhD studying Neurophysiology from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He completed his
residency training in Family Medicine and entered private practice in Charlotte, North Carolina. After working as a communitybased provider, he became the Research Director and then the Chair of the Carolinas Healthcare System’s Department of
Family Medicine where he founded and directed a primary care practice-based research network (MAPPR) that has had
ongoing federal funding since 2006. Immediately prior to joining UNC Charlotte, Dulin served as an executive at Atrium Health
where he led the system’s analytics center of excellence as well as their center for outcomes-based research and evaluation.
From 2020-2021, Dr. Dulin has been a Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine where he supported the U.S. House of
Representative Energy and Commerce Committee working on policy issues related to the Covid-19 pandemic, public health
data infrastructure, social determinants of health, mental health, and health information technology. His ongoing policy fellowship
is funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and now focuses on bias in artificial intelligence.
Dr. Dulin is a nationally recognized leader in the field of health information technology (HIT) and application of analytics and
outcomes research to improve care delivery and advance population health. He has led projects funded by AHRQ, The Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, The Duke Endowment, NIH, and PCORI. His technology innovations have been recognized by the
Charlotte Business Journal, NCHICA, and Cerner. His work to build a centralized data and analytics team at Atrium Health was
used by the Harvard School T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a published case study.
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