James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

Faculty

The James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence is home to specialists with a wide variety of backgrounds and areas of focus. Learn more about our faculty.

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Peter A. Margolis, MD, PhD Co-Director, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

Peter A. Margolis, MD, PhD's work encompasses the application and study of quality improvement methods in a broad range of areas including primary and sub-specialty care, communities and public health settings to improve the health outcomes of children, families and communities.

513-803-5015 peter.margolis@cchmc.org

Stephen E. Muething, MD Chief Quality Officer

Stephen E. Muething, MD, is a leader in quality improvement and transformation at Cincinnati Children's. He led improvement work in evidence-based care and patient flow, and was a leader of the team that launched Family-Centered Rounds. He has a special interest in design for reliability and high reliability organization, and plays a key role in several national improvement efforts supplying expertise in improvement science.

513-636-2068 stephen.muething@cchmc.org

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Maria T. Britto, MD, MPH Director, Center for Innovation in Chronic Disease Care

Maria T. Britto, MD, MPH's, research focuses on health care needs and preferences of adolescents with chronic conditions and on interventions to improve health outcomes. She is the director of the Center for Innovation in Chronic Disease Care, which seeks to accelerate improvement in outcomes for children and adolescents with chronic conditions by developing and evaluating new methods of care delivery and by applying innovative approaches to quality improvement in chronic diseases. She has served as a mentor for numerous NIH career development awards, as well as numerous other students, residents and junior faculty.

Visit the Britto Lab.

513-636-4681 maria.britto@cchmc.org

Adam C. Carle, MA, PhD

Adam C. Carle, MA, PhD, is interested in structural equation modeling, measurement theory, generalized multilevel modeling, complex survey methods, propensity scores, and their application to understanding individual and contextual level influences on children’s health and health disparities, especially among children with special health care needs.

513-803-1650 adam.carle@cchmc.org

Nancy M. Daraiseh, PhD

Nancy M. Daraiseh, PhD, is an industrial engineer specializing in occupational safety and health. Her research focuses on utilizing human factors and systems principles to examine work-related safety and health outcomes, patient safety and quality of care.

513-636-7236 nancy.daraiseh@cchmc.org

Linda M. Dynan, PhD

Linda M. Dynan, PhD, is an economist and health services researcher. Her work focuses on the organization and delivery of health care services, understanding and addressing health disparities, and understanding the underlying patient characteristics and work environments that lead to low quality care in hospitals and how national-level policies may enhance or detract from the ability to provide high quality care to all patients.

513-803-1743 linda.dynan@cchmc.org

David M. Hartley, PhD, MPH

David M. Hartley, PhD, MPH, investigates the factors governing the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases by applying mathematical modeling and computer simulation methods. He is also interested in data analytic and information technology approaches for understanding and improving communications in healthcare settings and improving patient safety.

513-803-7278 david.hartley@cchmc.org

Uma R. Kotagal, MBBS, MSc Executive Leader, Population and Community Health

513-636-0178 uma.kotagal@cchmc.org

Carole Lannon, MD, MPH Director, Learning Networks Program, Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

Carole Lannon, MD, MPH, helps to design and implement networks to measurably improve outcomes for children and families. Networks use data for research and improvement, build communities of patients, families, clinicians and scientists, and catalyze innovation.

513-803-8818 carole.lannon@cchmc.org

Ellen A. Lipstein, MD, MPH Physician, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

Ellen A. Lipstein, MD, MPH, has research interests in medical decision-making and chronic disease.

513-803-1626 ellen.lipstein@cchmc.org

Peter A. Margolis, MD, PhD Co-Director, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

513-803-5015 peter.margolis@cchmc.org

Stephen E. Muething, MD Chief Quality Officer

513-636-2068 stephen.muething@cchmc.org

Kathleen E. Walsh, MD, MSc Director of Patient Safety Research, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

Kathleen E. Walsh, MD, MSc, is a general pediatrician and health services researcher with experience studying medication safety in children in a variety of settings. She has led several multisite studies describing adverse drug events and medication errors in hospitalized children, children with chronic conditions, and in-home care. Her secondary focus is on health information technology and patient safety.

513-803-4588 kathleen.walsh@cchmc.org

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Jeffrey B. Anderson, MD, MPH, MBA Pediatric Cardiologist, Heart Institute

Jeffrey B. Anderson, MD, MPH, MBA, has research interests that include nutrition in congenital heart disease, syncope in the pediatric population and application of quality improvement methodology to improve outcomes and value in congenital heart disease.

513-636-2921 jeffrey.anderson@cchmc.org

Katherine A. S. Auger, MD, MSc Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Katherine A. S. Auger, MD, MSc, research focuses on ensuring hospitalized children receive the highest quality of care. The work ranges from defining and describing hospital quality to designing and testing interventions to ensure safe discharge to home.

513-803-8092 katherine.auger@cchmc.org

Andrew F. Beck, MD, MPH Attending Physician, Division of General & Community Pediatrics

Andrew F. Beck, MD, MPH, focuses on the intersection between child health and underlying social, economic, and environmental determinants. He then works to improve outcomes for children and neighborhoods, in part through bolstered hospital-community partnerships. He currently leads Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Community Health efforts devoted to reducing disparities in hospitalizations across neighborhoods.

513-636-3170 andrew.beck1@cchmc.org

Dan Benscoter, DO Director, Pediatric Home Ventilator Program

513-636-6771

Patrick W. Brady, MD, MSc Research Director, Division of Hospital Medicine

Patrick W. Brady, MD, MSc, is a hospital-based physician scientist with training in epidemiology, biostatistics, and advanced improvement science. Dr. Brady's research focuses broadly on designing, testing and evaluating evidence-based interventions to improve the quality and safety of inpatient pediatric care. His primary area of research focuses on improving situation awareness, a high reliability strategy, to improve the prediction, recognition, and treatment of deteriorating hospitalized patients.

513-803-8092 patrick.brady@cchmc.org

William B. Brinkman, MD, MEd, MSc Director, Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Carl Weihl Professor of Pediatrics

Supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Brinkman’s research has examined shared decision making about treatment options for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and, for those who choose to start medication, the continuity of treatment. Dr. Brinkman also collaborates on shared decision making research for a variety of other medical conditions with funding from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

513-636-2576 bill.brinkman@cchmc.org

Sarah D. Corathers, MD Director, Diabetes Transition Program, Division of Endocrinology

Sarah D. Corathers, MD, investigates psychosocial contributors to clinical outcomes for adolescents with type 1 diabetes with a special interest in factors predicting successful transition between pediatric and adult care.

513-636-4744 sarah.corathers@cchmc.org

Christopher E. Dandoy, MD, MSc Member, Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency

513-803-7495 christopher.dandoy@cchmc.org

Maya Dewan, MD, MPH Attending Physician, Division of Critical Care Medicine

Maya Dewan, MD, MPH, is an attending physician and assistant professor in the Division of Critical Care Medicine within the Department of Pediatrics. The focus of Dr. Dewan’s research is clinical decision support with a specific focus on using implementation science to improve the outcomes for high risk pediatric patients.

513-636-4259 maya.dewan@cchmc.org

Samuel P. Hanke, MD Quality Scholar in Healthcare Transformation, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

513-803-5132 samuel.hanke@cchmc.org

Catherine K. Hart, MD

513-636-4355 catherine.hart@cchmc.org

David K. Hooper, MD, MS Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation

David K. Hooper, MD, MS, aims to improve clinical outcomes for pediatric kidney transplant recipients through research in personalized care and the design of systems capable of delivering that care with high reliability. His primary focus is the prevention of cardiovascular disease through a combination of quality improvement and clinical/translational research methods.

513-636-4531 nephrology@cchmc.org

Robert S. Kahn, MD, MPH Associate Chair of Community Health, UC Department of Pediatrics

Robert S. Kahn, MD, MPH, studies the social and biologic pathways that lead to child health disparities, and develops interventions to interrupt those pathways. He received NIH funding to launch a large-scale study of disparities in children's admissions for asthma. A partnership he co-founded that embeds legal aid advocates in pediatric primary care to address the social determinants of child health was featured in The New York Times.

513-636-4369 robert.kahn@cchmc.org

Heather C. Kaplan, MD, MSCE Attending Neonatologist, Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology

Heather C. Kaplan, MD, MSCE, focuses on understanding variations in evidence-based care practices across hospitals and identifying strategies for increasing the implementation of evidence and other innovations into practice. She recently began a line of investigation aimed at building the evidence base for quality improvement so that QI can be used more effectively as a strategy for improving quality and patient outcomes.

513-803-0478 heather.kaplan@cchmc.org

Angela Lorts, MD Medical Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program

Angela Lorts, MD, is interested in myocardial remodeling.

513-636-4432 angela.lorts@cchmc.org

Esi M. Morgan, MD, MSCE Clinical Director, Division of Rheumatology

Esi Morgan, MD, MSCE, focuses on the development and validation of patient reported outcomes measures using modern psychometric approaches, including item response theory, for improved health assessment in children. A second major research focus concerns improving clinical outcomes of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis through the science of quality improvement.

513-803-2672 kathy.weber@cchmc.org

Eileen Murtagh Kurowski, MD Director of Quality Improvement, Division of Emergency Medicine

Eileen Murtagh Kurowski, MD, is a health services researcher who is interested in the emergency department care of adolescents and young adults with complex chronic conditions, with a particular focus on differences in care between pediatric and general EDs. She also has a secondary interest in care variations between pediatric and general EDs for common pediatric conditions.

513-803-6271 eileen.murtagh-kurowski@cchmc.org

Amanda C. Schondelmeyer, MD Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Amanda C. Schondelmeyer, MD, is a fellowship-trained pediatric hospitalist who conducts research and quality improvement work in the inpatient setting. Her research focuses on improving the quality, safety, and value of care provided to hospitalized children by evaluating and reducing overuse.

513-803-9158 amanda.schondelmeyer@cchmc.org

Michael Seid, PhD Director, Health Outcomes and Quality Care Research, Pulmonary Medicine and James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

The basic science behind what to do to improve health include genetics, biology, and chemistry, and physiology; the basic science behind how to do it right is behavioral and social science. Dr. Seid's Lab applies behavioral and social science to answer the question ‘What does it take to make sure the right treatment gets to the right child in the right way at the right time, every time?’ The lab takes a noncategorical approach to answering this question, as there are many more similarities than differences across diseases in what it takes to get things right. They also recognize that answering this question requires expertise from many areas: patients and families; clinicians; social scientists like psychologists, sociologists, economists, and anthropologists; designers; story-tellers and artists; systems engineers; organizers; technologists; health informaticians; and epidemiologists and other statisticians.

Visit the Seid Lab.

513-803-0083 michael.seid@cchmc.org

Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE Director, Division of Hospital Medicine

Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE, focuses on improving the efficiency and quality of care of children hospitalized with common, serious infections such as pneumonia and meningitis. Ongoing projects include studies of comparative effectiveness of different antibiotics for childhood pneumonia and developing novel databases to conduct comparative effectiveness research. He receives research support from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

513-636-6222 samir.shah@cchmc.org

Jeffery M. Simmons, MD, MSc AVP Safety & Regulatory, James M. Anderson Center for Health Services Excellence

Jeffrey M. Simmons, MD, MSc, is a pediatric hospitalist who uses classical clinical research methods and quality improvement science to accelerate the integration of research findings into the general inpatient wards. He focuses on better understanding socioeconomic disparities among children hospitalized for asthma and on redesigning the clinical care system to better address those disparities. He also directs the fellowship in pediatric hospital medicine.

513-636-6601 jeffrey.simmons@cchmc.org

Christopher J. Statile, MD Medical Director, Outpatient Services

513-636-1199 christopher.statile@cchmc.org

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