Congratulations to Karli Edholm, MD FACP, who was presented with the Laureate Award by the American College of Physicians (ACP). The Laureate Award honors Fellows and Masters of the College who have demonstrated by their example, conduct with an abiding commitment to excellence in medical care, education, or research, and in service to their community, their Chapter, and the American College of Physicians.
2018 American College of Physicians Laureate Award
Karli Edholm, MD, FACP is a first-generation college graduate who was raised in Southern California. She went to medical school and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at OHSU in Portland, OR. She then worked as a hospitalist at a small community hospital in Maine for 3 years before joining the University of Utah faculty as an academic hospitalist in 2013.
Dr. Edholm’s clinical practice includes caring for adult patients with both acute and chronic illness who are admitted to the hospital with a variety of diagnoses. Her academic interests include quality improvement, patient safety, medical education, thrombosis, value-based care, and clinical care pathway redesign. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, the Inpatient Medical Director for General Internal Medicine, and the Director of Quality Improvement for the Hospitalist group, and is a fellow in the American College of Physicians.