Kristin Kan MD, MPH

Kristin Kan, MD MPH Msc, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, a health services researcher, and a practicing primary care pediatrician with a passion for the care of children with asthma and other special health care needs. Specifically. Dr. Kan is focused on scientifically improving our healthcare delivery models and addressing system- and community-level barriers to high-quality care for pediatric patients. Dr. Kan’s NIH-sponsored research leverages a user-centered design approach and implementation science to refine a digitally-supported model of care for pediatric asthma. A central tenet of the work is understanding how to be equitable for all communities when developing the health system intervention. In addition to examining the use of digital health technology among families with children with asthma, the research also focuses on improving health systems so it can effectively implement digitally-delivered, pediatric healthcare services.

Her research has been influential in understanding the disparities in access to these services experienced by patients and families due to differential factors, such as digital literacy and access to reliable, high-speed internet. Dr. Kan is also the director of the Pediatric Health Services and Population Health Research Fellowship in the Division of Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care. She mentors and trains junior faculty clinicians in health services research. Clinically, she is a practicing physician at Lurie Children’s Uptown Primary Care clinic and also precepts pediatric residents weekly in their longitudinal primary care clinic. Dr. Kan received her undergraduate liberal arts degree from Baylor University. She then received her Medical Doctorate and Master of Public Health in Comparative Health Systems and Policies at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kan completed pediatric residency at the University of Washington/ Seattle Children’s Hospital and is an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Michigan.