Research

Kathleen W. Bartlett, MD, Chief
Areas of interest: Resident education, cultural competence, quality improvement, care for children with medical complexity

Clay Bordley, MD, MPH
Areas of interest: Quality improvement, procedural sedation, bronchiolitis

Kyle Cecil, MD
Pediatric emergency medicine, POCUS

Samrat Umasankar Das, MBBS
Areas of interest: Pediatric hospital medicine, graduate and undergraduate medical education, interprofessional education, simulation education and observational studies to improve clinical practice in the area of inpatient pediatrics

Emily Greenwald, MD
Pediatric emergency medicine, trauma and medical resuscitation, simulation, airway, quality improvement, and patient safety

Mikelle Key-Solle, MD
Areas of interest: Procedural sedation, quality improvement

Ian McCaslin, MD
Procedural sedation

Heather S. McLean, MD
Areas of interest: Quality improvement, patient safety, experience of care, QI curriculum development, care for children with medical complexity

David Ming, MD
Areas of interest: Transitions of care, care for children with medical complexity, quality improvement

Kristina Marie Nazareth-Pidgeon, MD
Areas of interest: Pediatric hospital medicine

Rachel O'Brian, MD
Graduate and undergraduate medical education, simulation

Victoria Parente, MD, MPH
Areas of interest: Health disparities, quality improvement, patient safety, care for children with medical complexity

Lisa Stigler Parnell, MD, MPH
Areas of interest: Patient education, health literacy, clinical practice guidelines, quality improvement, care for children with medical complexity

Emily Sterrett, MD
Pediatric sepsis, improvement science education

Neel Subramanian, MD
Medical informatics

Laura Truschel, MD
Pediatric emergency medicine, undergraduate and graduate medical education, health equity research, febrile infants

Michelle Joette White, MD
Areas of interest: Built environment and health

Current areas of interest include:

• Outcomes and process research on common inpatient diagnoses such as bronchiolitis and asthma
• Quality improvement initiatives
• Resident and student education initiatives
• Assessing needs and improving care for children with medical complexity
• Participation in a national pediatric procedural sedation collaborative to better understand and improve care
• Participation in national pediatric safety collaborative to improve care
• Collaborative projects with other Divisions (e.g., novel treatments of RSV infections, improving care of neonates with fever and possible sepsis, development of status epilepticus protocols)