Carole Lannon, MD, MPH

Senior Faculty Lead, Learning Networks Core, Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

carole.lannon@cchmc.org

About

Biography

Identifiable gaps in health outcomes piqued my research interests. I now work with patients, families, clinicians and researchers to improve care and outcomes for children and families using learning health networks. These networks, used for improvement and research, can accelerate population health outcomes at scale.

Working with my colleagues, we determined that the Learning Health Network model reliably reproduces results at scale. This model has already been effective for networks focusing on chronic conditions, rare diseases, safety and population health.

I joined Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2006 to research learning health networks, collaborative science, quality improvement, and patient and family partnerships. All the outcomes I’ve achieved have come as a direct result of partnering with others.

Patient and family care has been truly transformative for me. The experience has helped me dramatically improve our learning health network outcomes. Additionally, improvement science has helped me understand the value of standardization, since the reliability of processes and results supports a platform for innovation.

As a result of my work, I have been honored with the 2020 Cincinnati Children’s Advocacy Award. I also serve as the senior quality advisor for the American Board of Pediatrics.

MD: University of Minnesota Medical School, Twin Cities, MN, 1982.

Residency: Medicine-Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Fellowship: Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

MPH: University of North Carolina, Epidemiology, Chapel Hill, NC, 1993.

Certification: Internal Medicine, 1986; Pediatrics, 1988.

Research Areas

Quality Improvement (Anderson Center)

Publications

Transitioning medically complex infants home: lessons learned from quality improvement efforts. Benscoter, D; Voos, K; Schuler, CL; Hoberman, AJ; Kaplan, HC; Kuhnell, P; Lannon, CM. Journal of Perinatology. 2025; 45:404-410.

Perinatal Naloxone Care Practices: Survey Results From Persons With OUD and Providers. Nidey, N; Kaplan, HC; Ford, S; Prasad, M; Lannon, C. Journal of Addiction Medicine. 2025; 19:62-67.

Supporting the Well-Being of Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs: NASEM Proceedings. Rosenberg, AR; Pickles, DM; Harris, DS; Lannon, CM; Houtrow, A; Boat, T; Ramsey, B. Pediatrics. 2024; 154:e2024067032.

Integrating Emotional Health Assessments into Pediatric Care: Initial Learnings from an MOC Part 4 Activity. Lannon, CM; Schuler, CL; Thomas, LC; Gehring, E; Mann, KJ; Leslie, LK. Pediatric Quality and Safety. 2024; 9:e768.

Integrating education for clinical practice change. Chawla, EM; Schuler, CL; Barnhardt, EW; Herbst, LA; Sarkissian, A; McNeal-Trice, K; Newmeyer, A; Perry, M; Poynter, SE; Lannon, C. The Clinical Teacher. 2024; 21:e13753.

Risk Factors for Death or Transplant After Stage 2 Palliation for Single Ventricle Heart Disease. Bucholz, EM; Lu, M; Sleeper, L; Vergales, J; Bingler, MA; Ronai, C; Anderson, JB; Bates, KE; Lannon, C; Reynolds, L; Brown, DW. 2024; 3:100934.

The NEONATE score predicts freedom from interstage mortality or transplant in a modern cohort. Ahmed, H; Anderson, JB; Bates, KE; Lannon, CM; Brown, DW. Cardiology in the Young. 2024; 34:981-988.

Patient-Reported Outcomes to Describe Global Health and Family Relationships in Pediatric Weight Management. Rhodes, ET; Phan, TL T; Earley, ER; Eneli, I; Haemer, MA; Highfield, NC; Khan, S; Kim, G; Kirk, S; Sullivan, EM; Stoll, JM; Werk, LN; Zeribi, KA; Forrest, CB; Lannon, C. Childhood Obesity. 2024; 20:1-10.

The impact of being Black while living with a chronic condition: Inpatient perspectives. Kinebrew, VR; Lawson, C; Rouse, LT; Williams, T; Schuler, CL; Lannon, C. Journal of hospital medicine (Online). 2023; 18:856-859.

The Ohio Maternal Safety Quality Improvement Project: initial results of a statewide perinatal hypertension quality improvement initiative implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Schneider, P; Lorenz, A; Menegay, MC; Afflitto, S; Lamb, E; Cossler, N; Dixon, K; Gibson, KS; Lannon, C; Fuller, S; Ford, S; Oza-Frank, R; Everett, R; Lappen, JR. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology MFM. 2023; 5:100912.