K Casey Lion, MD, MPH

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
K Casey Lion, MD, MPH

Specialties

  • Children's Title: Research Director, Center for Diversity and Health Equity; Attending Physician, General Pediatrics
  • Academic Title: Associate Professor
  • Research Center: Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development
  • Language (Other than English): Spanish
  • On Staff Since: August 2010

  • Biography

    K. Casey Lion, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine; research director for Seattle Children’s Center for Diversity and Health Equity; and an investigator at Seattle Children's Research Institute. She co-directs the Health Services and Quality of Care Research Fellowship. Dr. Lion is an NIH-funded health services researcher whose work focuses on healthcare equity, language access, patient-provider communication and health system navigation. In her work, she partners with families and providers to design interventions to improve healthcare experiences and outcomes for children and families, especially those who use languages other than English for medical care. Her methodological expertise includes the rigorous evaluation of quality improvement interventions, with a particular focus on QI and healthcare equity. She is passionate about creating systems to support equity-focused research; equitable inclusion in all research; and inclusion and belonging throughout the research workforce. Clinically, she sees patients and supervises residents in the pediatric primary care clinic at the UW Medical Center.

    She earned her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and a master's in public health at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. She completed her residency and Health Services and Quality of Care Research fellowship at Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Academic Pediatric Association, and the American Pediatric Society.

    Board Certification(s)

    Pediatrics

    Education

    University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
    University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA

    Residency

    University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

    Fellowship

    University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

    Research Description

    Dr. Lion's NIH-funded research program focuses on the interactions between patient-provider communication, health system navigation, and healthcare equity, with a particular focus on improving care for families that use a language other than English for medical care. In her research, she collaborates with multidisciplinary partners, including parents and community members, to design and test interventions aimed at improving healthcare experiences and outcomes for children and families from historically marginalized populations. She has additional methodologic expertise related to QI research methods and the effect of QI on health equity.

  • Related Resources

    • ENCORE Lab

      ENCORE Lab

      The Equity, Navigation, Communication, and healthcare Outcomes REsearch (ENCORE) lab is an NIH-funded research lab founded by Dr. Casey Lion that aims to achieve equitable healthcare outcomes for children from historically marginalized populations.

    • Artificial Intelligence for Language Translation: The Equity Is in the Details

      In a JAMA Viewpoint article, Dr. Casey Lion discusses the challenges to implementing AI-based translation in clinical settings and what health care organizations can do to mitigate these challenges.

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