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Michael Kane, MD

Assistant Professor

The impact of suicide on my community drives my focus on using clinical informatics to improve care for at-risk patients.

Institution

UNC School of Medicine UNC Health

School

School of Medicine

Expertise

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Informatics

Department

Department of Psychiatry

Information Services Division

Professional Bio

Dr. Kane is a board certified Child and Adolescent psychiatrist who completed general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry training at UNC Hospitals. Following psychiatric training, Dr. Kane completed a clinical informatics fellow at UNC Hospitals. Clinically, Dr. Kane is involved in the ambulatory child and adolescent training clinic, inpatient child and adolescent units, and the patient admissions team. His clinical interests include psychosis, anxiety and mood disorders, and ADHD. As an informatician, Dr. Kane is the Director of Bioinformatics in the Department of Psychiatry and a Lead Informatics Physician for UNC Health. His informatics interests include leveraging clinical data generated through the electronic health record toward a learning behavioral health system through analytics, reporting and clinical decision support. As a clinician educator, Dr. Kane is core faculty in the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship, and the Assistant Program Director for the clinical informatics fellowship. He serves as a co-director for the Department of Psychiatry’s Clinical Informatics Training Track for general psychiatry residents.
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