Leadership
Steering Committee
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Sunitha Kaiser, MD, MSc<br /><span class="person-title">Chair</span><p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Kaiser’s research program focuses on improving care quality and health outcomes for hospitalized children. Specific areas of focus include: 1) using implementation science to accelerate the pace at which evidence is broadly implemented into care, 2) leveraging quality and safety infrastructure and resources to advance health equity, and 3) growing and synthesizing the evidence base around care of common diagnoses among hospitalized children. Dr. Kaiser is currently supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and private foundations. She serves as Chair of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network and helps steer the AAP’s Pediatric Acute and Critical Care (PACC) Quality Network.
Total direct costs of PRIS-related studies to date: $2,896,242
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Katherine Auger, MD, MSc<br /><span class="person-title">Vice Chair</span><p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Auger’s research focuses on understanding patterns in pediatric hospital utilization, in particular readmission. Her research is funded through a K08 award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She completed fellowship training in pediatric hospital medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She also completed the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, which included completing a Master of Science degree in Health and Healthcare Research. She has more than 35 peer reviewed publications, including first authored works on identifying unplanned readmission and highlighting the work of the Seamless Transitions and (Re)admissions network. She serves an editorial board member of Pediatrics. She is the only pediatrician on the National Quality Forum’s All Cause Admission and Readmission standing expert committee. Dr. Auger has received several prestigious research awards including the Nemours child Health Services Research Award and the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Outstanding Research Award.
Katherine A. Auger, MD, MSc (cincinnatichildrens.org)
Total direct costs of PRIS-related studies to date: ~
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Chris Russell<br /><span class="person-title">Engagement Officer</span><p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
My research focuses on developing evidence-based care for hospitalized children with medical complexity, including acute respiratory infections (such as pneumonia and bacterial tracheitis). An additional research focus is on the promotion of equitable health outcomes and patient and caregiver quality of life for all children with medical complexity.
Christopher John Russell | Stanford Medicine
Total direct costs of PRIS-related studies to date: ~$2 million
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Patrick Brady, MD, MSc<br /><span class="person-title">Science Officer</span><p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
My research seeks to co-produce with patients and families complex interventions and then compare their effectiveness on difficult and high stakes health systems problems. I have active and funded research programs in patient safety including diagnostic quality and safety, hospital to home transitions, and the de-implementation of treatments that do not improve the value of hospital care.
Patrick W. Brady, MD, MSc (cincinnatichildrens.org)
Total direct costs of PRIS-related studies to date: $4.2M
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Christopher Bonafide, MD, MSCE<br /><span class="person-title">Strategy & Operations Officer</span><p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Chris's research interests span implementation science and pediatric hospital care, with a specific interest in deimplementation. He currently leads the Eliminating Monitor Overuse (EMO) aiming to promote sustained deimplementation of unnecessary continuous pulse oximetry monitoring in children hospitalized with bronchiolitis.
Total direct costs of PRIS-related studies to date: $4.8M
Associate Executive Council
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Alisa Khan, MD, MPH<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Khan is a pediatric hospitalist and health services researcher who studies family engagement in hospital communication, safety, and equity. She is the director of the Program for Language Equity, which seeks to improve language equity in healthcare through a combination of research, advocacy, and education.
https://www.childrenshospital.org/research/researchers/alisa-khan
Total direct costs of PRIS-related studies to date: AHRQ R01: $1,381,203 DC
PCORI + Supplement: $7,257,838 DC
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Derek Williams, MD, MPH<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Williams is a clinical and health services researcher with an array of experience conducting multicenter cohort studies, clinical trials, and implementation research. His research program centers on improving care delivery and outcomes for children with pneumonia and other acute respiratory illnesses.
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Eric Coon, MD, MS<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Coon is a national leader in pediatric high-value care research and pragmatic clinical trials involving common pediatric conditions that lead to hospitalization.
Total direct costs of PRIS-related studies to date: $5,858,035
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Karen Wilson, MD, MPH<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
I am interested in the impact of secondhand smoke, both tobacco and marijuana, on children’s health and development, and in understanding the best ways to help parents quit smoking. I am also the Co-Director of the UR Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and am very interested in how we can better get the findings of scientific work into our communities and doctors offices.
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Lilliam Ambroggio, PhD, MPH<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Ambroggio's research program focuses on improving outcomes for children with common, serious infections by developing methods to improve diagnostic accuracy, implementing these methods into clinical practice and improving the overall management of children with these infections across acute care settings. Previous studies have focused on antibiotic resistance, empiric antibiotic choice, using -omics technology to develop more accurate diagnostics, and imaging modality in managing pneumonia in children.
Faculty Profile | School of Medicine | University of Colorado Denver (cuanschutz.edu)
Total direct costs of PRIS-related studies to date: $266,860
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Michael Tchou, MD, MSc<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Tchou has an interest in studying the topic of high-value care, i.e. the ways we can improve the quality of healthcare while maintaining or reducing overall health systems costs. His current research is focused on understanding the overuse of medical resources related to diagnostic testing and identifying best practices and conceptual frameworks for value improvement projects.
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Amanda Schondelmyer, MD, MSc<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
My research aims to understand how to implement evidence-based practices and discontinue harmful procedures or practices that don't improve the quality and safety of patient care. In my research, I use quantitative, qualitative and implementation science methods in my research, and work to engage individuals in the research process who don't typically consider themselves researchers, such as bedside clinicians, patients, and families.
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Stephanie Doupik, MD, MSHP<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Doupnik was drawn to research after seeing that many pediatric hospitalizations could be prevented with better resources to meet children’s health needs in their communities. Dr. Doupnik’s focus is to help children and families live their best possible lives at home, and her research investigates health policies and systems of care, including patient access to care, transitions in care, and integrating mental health supports throughout health systems.
https://clinicalfutures.research.chop.edu/stephanie-k-doupnik-md-ms
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Halley Ruppel, PhD, RN<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
My research interest is the integration of technology, especially monitoring technology, into clinical care with the goal of optimizing safety and outcomes for hospitalized children.
https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/profiles/16846-halley-ruppel
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Michelle M. Kelly, MD, PhD<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Kelly leads a health services research program focusing on developing and testing tools and technology that enhance health information transparency to improve family engagement, care quality and patient safety. Her research program has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and National Institutes of Health.
Kelly, MD, PhD, Michelle – Department of Pediatrics – UW–Madison (wisc.edu)
Total direct costs of PRIS-related studies to date: $1.5 million.
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Jennifer Rosenthal, MD, MAS<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Rosenthal is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California Davis. She completed her pediatric residency training at Seattle Children’s/UW followed by pediatric hospital medicine fellowship at UCSF. Dr. Rosenthal is a health services researcher with a focus on using technology to improve family engagement, child and family outcomes, and health equity around acute illness and injury. She is the UC Davis Faculty Director of Digital Health Equity and Process Improvement.
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Kavita Parikh, MD, MSHS<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Parikh is a health services and patient-oriented researcher with expertise in both large database research and patient/family-centered clinical trial design. She is committed to a career as an independent researcher in patient-centered outcomes research and completed a career training award through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Her active research portfolio includes R-level grants funded by AHRQ to study disparities in pediatric safety events, and by NIH to address disparities in health outcomes for children with asthma. Her interests include improving inpatient care, hospital to home transitions, and addressing disparities to advance healthcare equity. Dr. Parikh is also Co-Director of the national NIH-funded HEAR-PHM (stands for Health Equity in Academic Research within Pediatric Hospital Medicine) which is a research education program focused on building research capacity within Pediatric Hospital Medicine for advancing health equity.
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JoAnna Leyenaar, MD, PhD, MPH<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
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Sanjay Mahant, MD, MSc, FRCPC<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
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Catherine S. Forster, MD, MS, FAAP<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
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Matt Pantell, MD, MS<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Advisory Board
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Christopher Landrigan, MD, MPH<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Landrigan was the founding Chair of PRIS, and continues to serve on its Advisory Board. For the past 25 years, he has conducted a series of projects measuring the epidemiology of medical errors, and studying the effects of interventions designed to reduce them. His major areas of focus have been: 1) studying the effects on safety of circadian science-based work schedules designed to eliminate resident-physicians’ traditional extended duration work shifts; 2) developing and studying the effects of I-PASS, a structured handoff program whose implementation has consistently been associated with 30-50% reductions in harmful medical errors across settings and specialties; and 3) developing and studying Patient and Family Centered I-PASS, a structured communication program that is integrated into family-centered rounds, and has likewise been shown to result in significant safety improvements.
Christopher Landrigan | Harvard Catalyst Profiles | Harvard Catalyst
Total direct costs of PRIS-related studies to date: $10M
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Samir Shah, MD, MSCE, MHM<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Dr. Shah’s research focuses on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of care for hospitalized children. His work has demonstrated across a range common childhood conditions that hospitals that routinely perform more laboratory tests do not have better patient or systems level outcomes.
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Matt Hall, PhD<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Matt has performed pediatrics health services and policy research for over 10 years at CHA. He leads CHA’s Statistical Division and oversees 15 physician-led multicenter research groups that use CHA’s data assets for clinical, operational, and financial improvement by hospitals and policy makers. Matt is the Director of CHA’s Health Services Research Academy, an online training program for people who want to learn how to do health services research. He is a Statistical Editor at the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
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Raj Srivastava, MD, FRCP(C), MPH<p class="read-bio">Read Bio</p>
Raj Srivastava, MD, FRCP(C), MPH, is the Senior Medical Executive Director of Intermountain’s Healthcare Delivery Institute (HDI), a center for education, implementation science, and quality improvement. Within the HDI Dr. Srivastava leads Intermountain Healthcare’s implementation science core as a Professor of Research. The Implementation science core is responsible for the evaluation of evidence-based implementation of clinical best practices within the specialty- and community-based care pillars within Intermountain, including both adult and pediatric care. Dr. Srivastava also oversees the Advanced Training Program in Clinical Quality Improvement, an in-depth course designed for healthcare professionals who need to teach, implement, and investigate quality improvement, outcome measurement, and management of clinical processes.
Dr. Srivastava co-directs the Stanford-Intermountain Population Health Fellowship Program, which takes advantage of the two institutions’ synergies in research, system implementation design, and strong desire to deploy effective, evidence-based interventions in both healthcare systems.
Dr. Srivastava is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine and is a practicing hospitalist at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. Dr. Srivastava is also a former Chair of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) network.