Caroline Day, MD

Caroline Day, MD, is from Denver, Colorado and now serves as the director of WashU Medicine Student Health Services since October 2024. She comes to us from Family Care Centers in St Louis (a federally qualified health center), where she has cared for patients since 2007 and served as the Associate Medical Director of Forest Park Southeast (2011-17) and Chief Medical Officer (2017-2024). In these roles, she has ensured the delivery of high quality, comprehensive care to some of the most vulnerable individuals in the St. Louis Metro Area while training residents and students from St Louis University and medical students from Washington University. She strives to be an exceptional clinician focused on shared decision making and patient-centered, trauma-informed caring, and is passionate about healthcare provider wellbeing. Among other roles, she previously was a UCSF Family Medicine faculty member as a clinician educator working with medical students and as a preceptor for the UCSF Family Medicine Residency Program, and in then at UCSD Division of Family Medicine as the Director of Clinical Quality. Dr. Day completed her medical school training at Washington University School of Medicine and her residency training at University of Wisconsin, Madison Family Medicine program.  She currently volunteers in the ProBono Clinic at WashU and previously had been a faculty member on the steering committee for the UCSD’s student-run free clinic.  She is interested in lifestyle medicine and is a faculty advisor for the Culinary Medicine Program and newly forming student interest group for gardening and supporting food as medicine.  In her free time, she likes to be cooking, gardening, doing adventures with her two kids, being in the outdoors with biking or hiking, and watching St. Louis City SC games.