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UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)
12605 E. 16th Ave Aurora, CO 80045

720-848-0000

Katie Raffel, MD

Internal Medicine

Board Certified

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  • Gender

    Female

  • Department

    Associate Professor, Medicine-Hospital Medicine

  • Specialty

    Internal Medicine

  • Primary Clinic Phone

    720-848-0000
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UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)
12605 E. 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045

720-848-0000

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Provider Expertise

Clinical Interest for Patients

I am an institutional quality leader focused on improving high-risk inpatient care by building learning systems that last. My work centers on aligning people, processes, and data to address complex problems in ways that are practical, team-based, and sustainable. A core part of my leadership is developing others, so improvement becomes embedded in everyday practice rather than dependent on individual effort. My approach is grounded in systems thinking and hands-on coaching. I was part of the inaugural UCSF Learning Health System Coaching Program, a two-year intensive focused on Lean training, mentorship, and system-wide improvement. Currently, I serve as Medical Director for Inpatient Medicine Units at UCHealth, where I lead interprofessional safety and improvement efforts across six medicine units serving nearly 150 patients. I am also core faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency, where I teach and coach teams to build durable improvement capability. Through IHQSE, I am honored to serve as the director of the Health Quality Leadership Fellowship.


Specialties

  • Internal Medicine

Education & Training

Undergraduate Schools

BS, Xavier University (OH) (2009)


Graduate Schools

MD, University of Chicago (2013)


Residency Program

University of California (San Francisco)/University of California School of Public Health Program (General Preventive Medicine) (2016)


Research & Grants

Research Interests for Patients

My research focuses on understanding how diagnostic errors occur in hospitalized adults and how health systems can learn from high-risk clinical events to improve care. I was a core member of the UPSIDE study, an AHRQ-funded, multi-site effort that helped establish the prevalence and causes of diagnostic error in acute care settings, particularly during moments of clinical deterioration. This work led to the creation of the Achieving Diagnostic Excellence through Prevention and Teamwork (ADEPT) collaborative, a 14-hospital network dedicated to improving how diagnostic accuracy is measured, studied, and strengthened in everyday hospital practice. Beyond advancing the science of diagnostic improvement, the collaborative emphasizes building human and organizational capacity for diagnostic safety. In partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency (IHQSE), this commitment resulted in the launch of the Diagnostic Excellence Capacity Building Program—the first program of its kind designed to develop leaders and teams capable of sustaining diagnostic improvement within their institutions.

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