Katherine Blondon, MD, PhD

Katherine is a physician specialized in internal medicine, trained at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She holds a PhD in Health Services Research from the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.
Her work focuses on enhancing clinical decision-making and patient safety. She leads multiple projects aimed at improving anticoagulant therapy safety, developing clinical alert systems, and implementing evidence-based clinical pathways.
Katherine also designs digital tools to support both patients and healthcare professionals—creating apps that facilitate chronic disease self-management and enable secure communication and alert handling among care teams.
In addition to her research and development work, Katherine is deeply involved in medical education. She teaches interprofessional collaboration at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, using the TeamSTEPPS model. Her current research explores the use of LLMs to improve handoff skills for medical students, and to improve interprofessional documentation and collaboration in electronic health records (EHRs).