Meet the Team
Meet Our Experts
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 team of experts.
Directors
Jeffrey B. Anderson, MD, MPH, MBA
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Research population health; health equity; congenital heart disease
Primary Appointment
Research Interests
Chronic illness in adolescents; health care quality; quality of life; health care preferences of adolescents with chronic illness
Research Interests
Patient reported outcomes; measure development; item response theory; measurement theory; structural equation modeling; multilevel modeling; complex...
Nancy M. Daraiseh, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Occupational health and safety; human factors; patient safety; health outcomes; stress
David M. Hartley, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Infectious disease epidemiology; public health surveillance; mathematical and computer modeling
Allan M. Joseph, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Health services research; regionalization of pediatric acute care; emergency department pediatric readiness; transport and referral systems
Ellen A. Lipstein, MD, MPH
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Involvement of parents and patients in medical decision making; decision making in chronic conditions; health services research
Research Interests
Serious harm reduction; high reliability organization theory; organizational culture and leadership; evidence-based care; learning health systems
Eileen Murtagh Kurowski, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Health services research
Mfonobong Udoko, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Asthma; health equity; social determinants of health
Secondary Appointment
Katherine A. S. Auger, MD, MSc
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Social determinants of health; disparities; population health; quality improvement; geography
Dan Benscoter, DO
Director, Flexible Bronchoscopy Program
Research Interests
Comparative effectiveness research; co-production with patient and families; designing and evaluating complex interventions; clinical trials;...
William B. Brinkman, MD, MEd, MSc
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Sarah D. Corathers, MD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Transition between pediatric and adult care; psychosocial contributors to clinical and patient reported outcomes in type 1 diabetes; health equity
Christopher E. Dandoy, MD, MSc
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical informatics; decision support; implementation science; patient safety
Jasbir Dhaliwal, MBBS, MRCPCH, MSc
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Artificial intelligence; deep learning; machine learning; predictive analytics; clinical decision support tool and social determinants of health
Research Interests
Patient safety; health disparities
Research Interests
Communication between clinicians and families of children with complex chronic conditions
Samuel P. Hanke, MD, MS, MBA
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Research patient and family experience, quality improvement; care for hospitalized cardiac infants, infants with single ventricle anatomy
Shireen Hayatghaibi, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Radiology
Research Interests
Cost of medical care; patient preferences; medical decision making; new technology assessment
Research Interests
Quality and outcomes improvement; health systems design; medication adherence; outcomes research; multi-center collaborative research
Research Interests
Parental health as a mediator of poverty's effects on children; social and economic disparities in children's health; interaction of genes and...
Research Interests
Understanding variations in evidence-based care practices across hospitals; examining strategies for increasing the implementation of evidence into...
Research Interests
Health equity; social determinants of health and injury
Research Interests
Myocardial remodeling
Kevin M. Overmann, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Chronic respiratory failure; machine learning; learning health systems; quality improvement
Amanda C. Schondelmeyer, MD, MSc
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Quality improvement; clinical research
Research Interests
Health care quality and outcomes
Christopher J. Statile, MD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Echocardiography; fetal cardiology; value of care; quality improvement
Charles D. Varnell Jr., MD, MS
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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