Current Scholars

Michael Daugherty. Michael Daugherty

Michael Daugherty

Michael Daugherty.
Michael Daugherty, MD, is an assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Urology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He completed medical school and residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY.  He also completed a Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Urology at Cincinnati Children’s in June 2020. Some of his research interests include clinical informatics and urologic oncology. He is currently pursuing improvement work in the management of children with spina bifida and optimizing the care of patients undergoing complex urinary reconstructive surgery.
Philip Knollman, MD. Philip Knollman

Philip Knollman

Philip Knollman, MD.
Philip Knollman, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He completed medical school and residency training at the University of Chicago. Additionally, he completed Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at Cincinnati Children’s in June 2019. Through a practice in general pediatric ear, nose and throat surgery, he has the opportunity to further focus on his interests in the evaluation and treatment of related diseases in children and adolescents with Down syndrome. These interests are set within the broader context of improving health care delivery systems for individuals with Down syndrome, especially as it pertains to coordinating primary and subspecialty care, promoting best practices and standards of care, and ensuring quality of care.
Trisha Marshall, MD. Trisha Marshall

Trisha Marshall

Trisha Marshall, MD.
Trisha Marshall, MD, is a pediatric hospital medicine fellow at Cincinnati Children’s. She received her medical degree at the University of Virginia and completed her pediatric residency at the Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Hospital. It was during her residency that she developed a strong interest in quality improvement and patient safety. Prior work includes reviewing pediatric hospital re-admissions and evaluating direct admission as a risk factor for early, unplanned escalation of care. Her improvement work will focus on diagnostic safety, particularly improving the measurement, evaluation, and understanding of diagnostic error in hospitalized children as well as the impact of diagnostic uncertainty.
Andrea Maxwell. Andrea Maxwell

Andrea Maxwell

Andrea Maxwell.
Andrea Maxwell, MD, MPH, is a pediatric critical care fellow within the Critical Care Department at Cincinnati Children’s. She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan, as well as her MPH from Harvard University. She completed her medicine/pediatric residency at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is studying racial and ethnic disparities and is interested in using quality improvement methods for interventions related to this work. She is also working on in-unit quality improvement projects, such as improving communication with families who cannot be frequently present at the bedside.
Matthew Molloy Matthew Molloy

Matthew Molloy

Matthew Molloy
Matthew Molloy, MD, MPH, is a pediatric hospital medicine fellow at Cincinnati Children’s. He received his medical degree and MPH from Johns Hopkins University and completed his pediatric residency and chief residency at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. His prior quality improvement work involved standardizing provider handoffs and family centered rounding and implementation of evidence-based guidelines for bronchiolitis, febrile infants, and maintenance IV fluids. He is currently pursuing improvement work related to high-value care and overuse, with a focus on antimicrobial stewardship.
Abby Musial. Abigail Musial

Abigail Musial

Abby Musial.
Abby Musial, MD, is a pediatric Hospital Medicine fellow at Cincinnati Children’s. She received her medical degree from the University of Missouri -  Kansas City and completed her pediatric residency at Children’s  Mercy in Kansas City, Missouri where she was first introduced to the field of quality improvement. Her interests focus on standardizing care around Children with Medical Complexity. Currently, she is pursing improvement work in care coordination on hospital medicine, as well as feeding intolerance in G-tube fed Children with Medical Complexity admitted to hospital medicine. 
Tina Sosa. Tina Sosa

Tina Sosa

Tina Sosa.
Tina Sosa, MD, is a pediatric hospital medicine fellow at Cincinnati Children’s. She received her medical degree at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed her pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s. She then served as a Chief Resident at Cincinnati Children’s. Her prior quality improvement work involved optimizing the care of high acuity patients outside of the intensive care unit, early identification of barriers to discharge, improving patient flow at the Cincinnati Children’s Liberty Campus, and decreasing length of stay for febrile young infants admitted to the hospital. Currently, Tina is pursuing improvement work in the field of patient safety, with a focus on situation awareness for high risk therapies.
Jennifer Treasure. Jennifer Treasure

Jennifer Treasure

Jennifer Treasure.
Jennifer Treasure, MD, is a pediatric hospital medicine fellow at Cincinnati Children’s. She received her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati and completed her pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where she was introduced to the field of quality improvement. She later served as a pediatric chief resident, during which she was involved in quality improvement work around the standardization of care for patients admitted with bronchiolitis. Currently, she is pursuing improvement work related to developing best practice guidelines to decrease practice variability for common pediatric illnesses, with a focus on high-value care and evidence-based medicine.

Quality Scholars Program Develops Healthcare Leaders

The Quality Scholars Program in the Anderson Center is developing researchers and leaders who will transform pediatric health and healthcare delivery. Program goals include developing faculty to create effective healthcare delivery system interventions that can be disseminated into real-world practice settings, directly resulting in improved health outcomes.

Our unique Quality Scholars Program challenges participants to:

  • Design, develop, test, sustain, scale, and evaluate effective interventions in healthcare delivery
  • Undertake research that creates new knowledge and translates evidence of improved approaches in healthcare settings
  • Teach improvement science methodologies and lead organizations engaged in continuous improvement
  • Engage in learning health networks to accelerate innovation and improvement across populations

Candidates

We seek postdoctoral scholars to participate in the Quality Scholars Program. Eligible candidates include: 

  • Postdoctoral scholars in pediatric healthcare specializing in medicine, surgery, public health, the social sciences, nursing, pharmacy and other allied health areas
  • Faculty and fellows

Program Components

The Quality Scholars Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center includes:

  • Strong methodologic training in health services research and quality-improvement methods (including quality-improvement research methods of study design and analysis, planned experimentation in complex systems, statistical process control, and product and process design
  • Series of mentored research / improvement projects
  • Exposure to a wide range of high-impact areas of study including innovation in nonhealthcare industry settings
  • Leadership training and multidisciplinary team work

The training period will be two to three years. The duration of the training program may be reduced if a candidate already has an MS, MPH, PhD or DrPH in epidemiology or other relevant field.

How can I participate? Applications accepted annually. Applicants should submit a CV, personal statement and three recommendation letters.

For more information, contact: Sarah Corathers, MD, Program Director

Alumni Scholars

Jessica Aguilar. Jessica Aguilar

Jessica Aguilar

Jessica Aguilar.
Jessica M. Aguilar, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Head Injury Research Center and a speech language pathologist on the Outpatient NeuroRehabilitation Team (ONRT) at Cincinnati Children’s. She received her degrees from the University of Arizona and is currently a NRSA Fellow working under the mentorship of Dr. Shari Wade. Her research examines predictors of recovery after childhood traumatic brain injury, and factors associated with response to intervention. She was introduced to the field of quality improvement through the Intermediate Improvement Science Series (I2S2) here at Cincinnati Children’s and is currently pursuing improvement work in the areas of access to cognitive rehabilitation services after pediatric brain injury.
quality-scholar-mugshot-Aylward-Brandon Brandon Aylward

Brandon Aylward

quality-scholar-mugshot-Aylward-Brandon
Brandon Aylward, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology funded through a T32 training grant in the Center for Child Behavior and Nutrition Research and Training. He received his doctorate in clinical child psychology with a minor in quantitative psychology from the University of Kansas and completed his predoctoral residency at Cincinnati Children’s. His research interests encompass a broad range of psychology issues for children and adolescents. His work has focused on three main areas: predictors and correlates of children’s psychosocial, developmental and physical functioning in chronic illness populations; trends and correlates of adherence and self-management behaviors; and use of advanced statistical methodology and innovative technology to examine predictors and outcomes for chronic health issues. He is involved in several research projects with Scott Powers, PhD, and faculty in the Center for Adherence and Self-Management in pediatric migraine, adherence and self-management, and child health outcomes. In addition, Aylward is working with Peter Margolis, MD, PhD, on patient driven trials as part of the Collaborative Chronic Care Network.
quality-scholar-dan-benscoter Dan Benscoter

Dan Benscoter

quality-scholar-dan-benscoter
Dan Benscoter, DO, is a pediatric pulmonary fellow in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s. His research focuses on pediatric airway and aerodigestive disorders and improving healthcare delivery to these patients in a primary care pediatrics environment. Benscoter graduated from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2006 and completed his residency in pediatrics at Janet Weis Children’s Hospital  in 2009.
quality-scholar-mugshot-brady-patrick Patrick Brady

Patrick Brady

quality-scholar-mugshot-brady-patrick
After his fellowship, Patrick Brady, MD, joined the faculty at Cincinnati Children’s and the University of Cincinnati with a joint appointment in general and community pediatrics and the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence. His work continues in innovating, testing and taking to scale reliable systems to identify, mitigate and escalate deteriorating hospitalized patients. He has the goal of eliminating preventable harm from deterioration at Cincinnati Children’s and later through collaboration with other hospitals. He also aims to disseminate this knowledge in peer-reviewed literature so the theory can be tested and refined and the outcomes and cost of care can improve nationally and worldwide. Brady was cited for best presentation at the 2010 International Scientific Symposium and won honors from the Academy for Healthcare Improvement for “Improving Situation Awareness to Eliminate Serious Safety Events and UNSAFE Transfers of Pediatric Inpatients: a Time-Series Study.”
quality-scholar-courtney-brown Courtney Brown

Courtney Brown

quality-scholar-courtney-brown
Courtney Brown, MD, is a clinical faculty member of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s. Brown’s research has focused on primary care opportunities for connecting families with community resources; specifically, how families’ needs can be identified efficiently to customize care, how families can be activated to access community programs, and how processes within the medical home can make it easier for providers to facilitate these connections. Brown has been involved with the Transforming Early Childhood Community Systems (TECCS) project, a population-based initiative to promote physical health and school readiness among children less than 5 years old in Cincinnati’s Price Hill neighborhood, which at baseline, has poor health outcomes and poor performance on measures of kindergarten readiness.
quality-claes-donna Donna Claes

Donna Claes

quality-claes-donna
Donna Claes, MD, is a pediatric nephrologist at Cincinnati Children’s.  Her research focus will be on improving health quality outcomes in pediatric chronic kidney disease patients. Claes graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine in 2004, and completed her pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s in 2007.  She was a pediatric chief resident at Cincinnati Children’s from 2007-2008.
quality-scholar-christopher-dandoy Christopher Dandoy

Christopher Dandoy

quality-scholar-christopher-dandoy
Christopher Dandoy, MD, is a pediatric hematology oncology fellow at Cincinnati Children’s. His research focus will be on long-term care and outcome of BMT, hematology and oncology pediatric patients. Dandoy graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 2007, and completed his residency in pediatrics at Miami Children’s Hospital in 2010. He was the pediatric chief resident at Miami Children’s from 2010-2011.
quality-scholar-mugshot-dritz-michele Michele Dritz

Michele Dritz

quality-scholar-mugshot-dritz-michele
Upon completing her fellowship, Michele Dritz, MD, secured a position with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Dayton, OH, in the Adolescent Medicine Teen Clinic. The clinic is a consult-only referral center for adolescent medicine concerns in the Dayton area, but will transition to a primary care clinic to serve the WPAFB adolescent population, which includes about 2,200 military and government-contract dependents.  In addition, she will hold a joint appointment with Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University, teaching and overseeing pediatric and family practice residents as well as medical students. Dritz will begin the process of integrating and managing outpatient quality-improvement initiatives both within the new Adolescent Primary Care Clinic and the General Pediatrics Clinic at WPAFB. With her training through the Quality Scholars in Healthcare Transformation Program at Cincinnati Children’s, she will be able to continue her work of improving healthcare and clinical outcomes for all patients.
quality-scholar-dana-dykes Dana Dykes

Dana Dykes

quality-scholar-dana-dykes
Dana Dykes, MD, MS, is a clinical faculty member in pediatric gastroenterology at Cincinnati Children’s. Her research focuses on the development and implementation of process and procedures with technology to improve care for patients with gastrointestinal disease, specifically inflammatory bowel disease. Dykes graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 2006, and completed her residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital at UAB in 2009. She has recently completed her Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s.
quality-scholar-mugshot-hanke-samuel Samuel Hanke

Samuel Hanke

quality-scholar-mugshot-hanke-samuel
Samuel Hanke, MD, is a clinical pediatric cardiology fellow within the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s. He received his medical degree from the University of Louisville and completed his pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s. He later served as a pediatric chief resident where he was introduced to the field of quality improvement. Prior interests focused on optimizing resident education. Currently, he is pursing improvement work in the field on noninvasive cardiac imaging.
quality-scholar-catherine-hart Catherine Hart

Catherine Hart

quality-scholar-catherine-hart
Catherine Hart, MD, is an assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology. Her research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of screening and treatment of bacterial colonization in patients undergoing open airway surgery, as well as reducing post-operative complications in pediatric tracheostomy. Hart graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 2005.  She completed a residency in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at the University Cincinnati Medical Center in 2010 and a fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology at Cincinnati Children’s in 2012. 
quality-scholar-mugshot-hooper-david David Hooper

David Hooper

quality-scholar-mugshot-hooper-david
After completing his nephrology fellowship, David Hooper, MD, joined Cincinnati Children’s and the University of Cincinnati with a joint appointment in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence. His aim is to improve clinical outcomes for children who have had a kidney transplant through research in personalized care and the design of reliable healthcare delivery systems. He focuses on the prevention of cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death in young adults who had a kidney transplant as children. He has developed reliable, semi-automated systems for screening and treating high cholesterol and is focused on management of blood pressure. His methods include applying the principles of chronic care, including decision support through the electronic medical record, development of treatment guidelines and implementing standardized care, the planned medical visit, population management and self-management support.  He seeks to innovate chronic disease management and study the long-term outcomes of cardiovascular care. 
quality-scholar-mugshot-linam-matt Matt Linam

Matt Linam

quality-scholar-mugshot-linam-matt
After completing his fellowship, Matt Linam, MD, acquired a position at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. About 50 percent of his time is devoted to QI work, including clinical quality activities, education and research. Much of his work is related to infection control where he functions as the primary physician contact with the infection prevention and control department and helps guide the activities of the department. He is working on a number of projects related to hand hygiene compliance and is gearing up for a hospitalwide initiative on improving compliance. He is the codirector of the antibiotic stewardship program, which is in the early stages of a QI project to expand the scope from focusing on only one antibiotic, vancomycin, to all antibiotics. Linam is also the co-course director of an internal basic quality improvement / process improvement training course for healthcare workers at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. The hand hygiene project that he worked on during his Quality Scholars Fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s will be published in Pediatrics in September 2011. The training he received at Cincinnati Children’s has allowed him to be a leader in quality improvement at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
quality-scholar-Murtagh Eileen Murtagh Kurowski

Eileen Murtagh Kurowski

quality-scholar-Murtagh
Eileen Murtagh Kurowski, MD, MS, is an attending physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland and completed a residency in internal medicine-pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.  She completed fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine in September 2011 and a master’s in clinical and translational research at the University of Cincinnati in December 2012. Her research interests encompass a broad range of issues related to efficient, effective delivery of emergency care to children.  Currently, she is leading an improvement team working to design a system that would decrease the time to intervention for patients presenting to the emergency department and has successfully piloted this system with a subgroup of patients.
Adam Nelson. Adam Nelson

Adam Nelson

Adam Nelson.
Adam Nelson, MBBS, FRACP, is an instructor within the Division of Bone Marrow Transplant & Immune Deficiency at Cincinnati Children's. He received his medical degree from the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. He completed his residency and hem/onc fellowship at Sydney Children's Hospital, before coming to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to undertake a fellowship in BMT. He is committed to improving the outcomes in children undergoing HSCT through ongoing clinical and QI projects focusing on sustainable system change, reducing complications and optimizing outcomes for children and their families.
Nathan Pajor. Nathan Pajor

Nathan Pajor

Nathan Pajor.
Nathan Pajor, MD,  is a clinical fellow in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at Cincinnati Children's. He received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and completed his pediatric residency and chief residency at Lurie Children's/Northwestern University in Chicago. Prior quality improvement work involved studying medication delivery methods for patients with asthma exacerbations in order to inform and develop a hospital-wide clinical care guideline. Future work will focus on improving the care of children with chronic respiratory failure and technology dependence.
Colleen Pater. Colleen Pater

Colleen Pater

Colleen Pater.
Colleen Pater, MD, is a clinical pediatric cardiology fellow within the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's. She received her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati and completed her Internal Medicine - Pediatrics residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. While there, she created an algorithm to treat acetaminophen overdoses with N-acetylcysteine within the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh emergency room and inpatient units, standardizing the care of those patients. She also participated in quality improvement projects within her continuity clinic. Currently, she is pursuing improvement work within the Heart Institute inpatient unit. 
quality-scholar-mugshot-redle-erin Erin Redle

Erin Redle

quality-scholar-mugshot-redle-erin
Erin Redle, PhD, is a speech pathologist and researcher in the Division of Speech Pathology and the Communication Sciences Research Center, as well as an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Cincinnati.  Her research focuses on children with dysphasia and motor speech disorders, including childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Her work focuses on developing clinically relevant outcome measures within these conditions using measures of family functioning, patient performance and neuroimaging. Her dissertation work was recognized by the Dysphagia Research Society in 2008. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Cincinnati.
Eric Robinette. Eric Robinette

Eric Robinette

Eric Robinette.

Eric Robinette is a clinical fellow in pediatric infectious diseases at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He received his medical degree from the Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio, and completed his pediatric residency and chief residency at Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron, Ohio. He became involved in numerous quality improvement projects during his residency and chief residency primarily related to the application of health information technology as a tool for enhancing safety and reliability in healthcare.  His career interest is the application of quality improvement methodology as a force multiplier in the global health setting.

quality-scholar-Schmit Jennifer Angeli

Jennifer Angeli

quality-scholar-Schmit

Jennifer Angeli, DPT, PhD, is a pediatric physical therapist and a co-director of the neurodevelopmental research program in the Division of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy at Cincinnati Children’s.  She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. She received her clinical doctorate from the University of Saint Augustine for Health Sciences and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. 

Her research history includes the study of motor control in movement-disordered populations, with particular emphasis on gait and postural control in children with cerebral palsy.  She is a new independent improvement investigator for the Quality Scholars Program in healthcare transformation in the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence. She hopes to explore the plausibility and efficacy of improved therapy care delivery systems.

quality-scholar-schondelmey Amanda Schondelmeyer

Amanda Schondelmeyer

quality-scholar-schondelmey
Amanda Schondelmeyer, MD, is a fellow in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s. She completed undergraduate education and medical school at the University of Missouri, Columbia, followed by pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s. Her improvement work will focus on the delivery of evidence-based care to hospitalized pediatric patients and the effect on cost and patient outcomes.
quality-shaw-anita Anita Shah

Anita Shah

quality-shaw-anita
Anita Shah, DO, is a clinical fellow within the Hospital Medicine Division at Cincinnati Children’s.  She received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, medical degree from Western University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed her pediatric residency at Levine Children’s Hospital.  Her improvement work will focus on improving resilience of families to help decrease healthcare utilization and help improve child health outcomes.
quality-scholar-mugshot-stalets-erika Erika Stalets

Erika Stalets

quality-scholar-mugshot-stalets-erika
After completing her pediatric critical care fellowship, Erika Stalets, MD, joined the faculty at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. The main focus of her improvement work is the reliable recognition and delivery of care to pediatric septic shock patients. She also works with hospital improvement teams directed toward optimizing patient flow throughout the system and having the right bed at the right time for patients. This year she began co-leading the hospitalwide initiative to eliminate catheter-associated UTIs, part of the strategic priority to eliminate all preventable harm.
Mike Tchou Mike Tchou

Mike Tchou

Mike Tchou
Mike Tchou, MD, is a pediatric hospital medicine fellow within the Division of Hospital Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.  He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and completed his pediatric residency and chief residency at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.  Prior interests include using lean process improvement methods to increase efficiency in hospital processes and using case-based methods to teach residents about high-value care.  He is currently pursuing improvement work investigating the intersection of high-value care and safety in the field of inpatient pediatric care.
quality-thienprayoon-rachel Rachel Thienprayoon

Rachel Thienprayoon

quality-thienprayoon-rachel
Rachel Thienprayoon, MD, is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.  Her clinical research interest is in systems delivery and outcomes in pediatric hospice care; her work thus far has focused on racial / ethnic disparities in pediatric hospice use and the quality of pediatric hospice care provided to children with cancer.  Rachel completed her general pediatrics residency training at Children’s Medical Center Dallas in 2010, a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2013, and a fellowship in pediatric palliative medicine at Cincinnati Children’s in 2014.
quality-scholar-mugshot-tubbs-cooley-heather Heather Tubbs Cooley

Heather Tubbs Cooley

quality-scholar-mugshot-tubbs-cooley-heather
Heather Tubbs Cooley, PhD, RN, is a nurse scientist in the Center for Professional Excellence-Research and Evidence-Based Practice at Cincinnati Children’s and an assistant professor of clinical nursing at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing. She studies relationships between nursing care and patient outcomes and is particularly interested in associations between hospital nursing organization and clinical outcomes such as ventilator-associated pneumonia and sepsis. She received a dissertation award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and was awarded her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. She received the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues New Investigator Award at the 2011 AcademyHealth annual research meeting in Seattle.
Charles Varnell. Charles Varnell

Charles Varnell

Charles Varnell.
Charles Varnell, Jr., MD, MS, is a pediatric nephrology fellow with the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension at Cincinnati Children’s. He received his undergraduate degree at The College of William & Mary, his medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School, and completed his pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s. After residency he served as a pediatric chief resident where he was further educated in quality improvement methodology. Currently, his research interest is in building systems to support pediatric kidney transplant patients post-transplant and decreasing transplant rejection episodes.
quality-zafar-muhammad Muhammad Ahsan Zafar

Muhammad Ahsan Zafar

quality-zafar-muhammad
Muhammad Ahsan Zafar, MD, is an adult pulmonary and critical care specialist at University of Cincinnati Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Aga Khan University, Pakistan, and completed his internal medicine residency followed by fellowship in pulmonary and critical care from University of Cincinnati. During his residency he was introduced to the field of quality improvement and led a QI initiative to improve care of patients with diabetes in ambulatory setting. His current interests are in improving care delivery for patients with chronic lung diseases such as COPD and transitions of care in critical care.

(From left) Samuel Hanke, Erika Stalets, Heather Tubbs Cooley, Erin Redle, Marielle Kabbouche, Brandon Aylward, program director Evaline Alessandrini and Anderson Center coordinator April Mack-Williams.

Their improvement work goes on at Cincinnati Children's: (from left) Sarah Corathers, program director, Eric Robinette, Mike Tchou, Nathan Pajor, and Charles Varnell, Jr.

Program Leadership

Core Program Faculty

Sarah Corathers, MD, program director

Maria Britto, MD, MPH    

Carole Lannon, MD, MPH

Peter Margolis, MD, PhD

Stephen Muething, MD

Michael Seid, PhD 

Advisory Committee

Uma Kotagal, MBBS, MSc, executive leader, population and community health; and senior fellow, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center