Julie Oyler, MD

2025 Senior Faculty Scholars

Dr. Oyler is a Professor and Associate Program Director at the University of Chicago Internal Medicine Residency Program. She completed her undergraduate education at Stanford University and her medical degree and internal medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Chicago. She developed the University of Chicago Medicine’s Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Curriculum, a two year curriculum which has been used to teach over 500 Internal Medicine residents Practice-Based Learning and Improvement and Systems- Based Practice. She is currently co-director for the HealthCare Delivery Improvement Science Track at the U Chicago’s Pritzker, School of Medicine, and teaches quality improvement and patient safety nationally for the AAMC Teach for Quality program, the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Quality and Safety Educator Academy, and the American College of Physicians Advance QI program. Dr Oyler practices as a primary care provider on the south side of Chicago. She was Chair of the University of Chicago, Department of Medicine Women’s Committee from 2017 to 2024 and became the inaugural Chair of the BSD Women’s committee in 2024 after completing Executive Leadership in Healthcare (ELAM/ELH). She has led initiatives like increasing the presence of “Women on the Walls” and “Increasing Awards Given to Female Faculty in Academics”.