A Carolinas Medical Center physician has received a $300,000 grant for research on improving access to primary-care services for Charlotte’s Hispanic population.

The funds are provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Physician Faculty Scholars Program.

Dr. Michael Dulin, the grant recipient, is director of research and evidence-based medicine in the CMC Department of Family Medicine. He also is the director of the Mecklenburg Area Partnership for Primary Care Research and a co-founder of a statewide primary-care research consortium.”*

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