Katherine Gielissen, MD, MHS

Dr. Katie Gielissen is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the founding Program Director of the Emory Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program. She earned her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency training at Yale New Haven Hospital. She subsequently completed the Yale General Internal Medicine Medical Education Fellowship and earned a Master of Health Sciences in Medical Education (MHS-Med Ed).

Prior to joining Emory University in 2023, Dr. Gielissen held several educational leadership roles at Yale, including Associate Program Director for the Yale Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Program, Associate Clerkship Director for the Internal Medicine Clerkship, Director of the Pediatrics Clinician-Educator Track (PCET) and Co-Director of the Internal Medicine Clinician-Educator Distinction (CED). In 2019, she became a co-editor of Yale Office-Based Medicine (YOBM), a nationally disseminated ambulatory medicine curriculum used by hundreds of residency programs.

Nationally, Dr. Gielissen serves as core faculty for the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Medical Education Scholarship Faculty Development Program, a year-long program that supports junior faculty in developing, completing, and disseminating medical education scholarship.

Dr. Gielissen’s scholarship focuses on competency-based medical education and the use of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for assessment in undergraduate and graduate medical education. Her work has particularly examined how supervisors make entrustment decisions and how assessment systems can better capture learners’ readiness for progressively independent clinical practice. Her broader scholarship includes the development of teaching, scholarship, and research skills among clinician-educators and the design and evaluation of innovative approaches to medical education.