Carole Warde, MD, FACP

Carole Warde, MD, FACP

As an academic general internist and medical educator on the faculty of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Carole has studied patient-centered communication, interprofessional teamwork, physician worklife, evidence-based medicine, and relationship-centered leadership. She has spent much of her career caring for underserved patients and helping others learn to approach society’s most vulnerable groups with respect, humility and compassion.

Carole is a clinician/educator. She has practiced and taught inpatient and ambulatory medicine. She has held clinical and educational leadership positions at the Veterans Administration, academic medical centers, community teaching hospitals, a large health maintenance organization, and a federally qualified health center. She has long been interested in the effects of the work environment on relationships with patients and clinician well-being. In a variety of clinical settings, she has led studies of burnout, satisfaction and related organizational characteristics. She then guided clinicians and staff to develop processes and programs to promote workplace changes, personal-professional balance, and team resilience.

Curriculum development has been a career-long avocation. Carole has been active with national presentations and publications in curricula: evidence-based medicine for community faculty, cardiac physical examination, relationship-centered leadership for medical students, interprofessional teamwork, and trainee well-being. She has studied primary care teamwork and developed a useful conceptual model for training, assessing, and improving team performance. Most recently she led a team of clinicians to develop an interprofessional training program for six different health professions, in a patient-centered medical home caring for homeless Veterans.

As a mother of a young doctor, Carole would like to dedicate the remainder of her career to making the worklife of the next generation more fulfilling and sustainable, and guiding the organizations of the future to shape that.