Michael Dulin, M.D., Ph.D. 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 community-based 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 was 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.
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 case study.