Jane Patricia Gagliardi

Jane P. Gagliardi, MD, MHS, FACP, DFAPA completed medical school, residency training in combined internal medicine-psychiatry, and her Master of Health Science in the clinical research training program at Duke, where she has remained on faculty since completing residency training.

Dr. Gagliardi has been involved in the educational programs in the Department of Medicine, where she served as Clerkship Director and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for nearly a decade through June, 2014 and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she served as the Associate Program Director for the Psychiatry Residency Training Program from 2011 till 2013, Director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program from 2013 through 2019, and Director of the Medicine-Psychiatry Residency Training Program from 2019 through 2023. She served as Vice Chair for Education in Psychiatry from 2014 though 2021. Since 2023, she has held the position of Associate Dean for Learning Environment and Well-Being, working to centralize services to support students and others in the clinical and learning environments in all of hte School of Medicine health professions education programs.  She is a small group leader in the medical school Clinical Skills course and in the Master of Biomedical Sciences Essentials of Health Practice and Professional Development course.  She founded and co-directs the medical school Evidence-Based Medicine course.

Dr. Gagliardi is particularly interested in the interplay between patient safety measures, various pressures in medicine including implementation of the electronic health record, medical education, and equity, and she has worked to develop and encourage projects in patient safety and quality improvement.  She is involved in national educational efforts to improve primary care clinicians' ability to detect, diagnose and treat behavioral health concerns. 

She cares for patients in acute care and inpatient settings on the General Medicine, inpatient Medicine-Psychiatry, and Emergency Psychiatry services.