PQIP Panel
CPQCC Perinatal Quality Improvement Panel (PQIP)
ROSTER
Paul Sharek, MD, MPH, FAAP - Chair
Medical Director of Quality Management/Chief Safety Officer
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto
Director of Quality, CPQCC
Shabbir Ahmad, DVM, MS, PhD
Acting Chief
Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program
Department of Public Health, Sacramento
Richard Bell, MD
Neonatologist
North Bay Medical Center, Fairfield
Lisa Bollman, RN, MS, CPHQ
RPPC Program Director, Region 6.7
Community Perinatal Network, Whittier
Carlos Botas, MD
Neonatologist
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco
Kathy Chance, MD
Neonatologist and Medical Consultant
CDHS-Children's Medical Services Branch
David J. Durand MD
Division of Neonatology
Children’s Hospital Oakland
Neil Finer, MD
UCSD Medical Center Division of Neonatology
Allen Fischer, MD
Regional Director
Northern California
Kaiser Walnut Creek
Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPH
Director, Perinatal Epidemiology and
Health Outcomes Research Unit
Stanford University
Balaji Govindaswami, MD, MPH
Chief, Division of Neonatology
Director, NICU,
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Kim Gregory, MD, MPH
(Alternate for Dr. Korst)
OB/GYN - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Priya Jegatheesan, MD
(Alternate for Dr. Govindaswami)
Attending Neonatologist, Director, MICC,
Division of Neonatology
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Priscilla Joe, MD
Division of Neonatology
Children’s Hospital Oakland
Sandy King
(alternate for Dr. Padilla)
Perinatal Outreach Education Program
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Lisa Korst, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles
Division of Children, Youth, and Families
Paul Kurtin, MD
Vice President-Clinical Innovations
Director-Center for Children Health Outcomes
Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego
Elliott Main, MD
Principal Investigator, CMQCC
PAMR, Chair
Dept. of OB/GYN
California Pacific Medical Center
Frank L. Mannino, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Infant Special Care Center
UCSD Medical Center,
Guadalupe Padilla-Robb, MD
Neonatology - Miller Children’s Hospital
At Long Beach Memorial
Janet Pettit, RN, MSN, NNP
Perinatal Services - Doctors Medical Center
Richard J. Powers, MD
Medical Director, NICU
Good Samaritan Hospital
Asha Puri, MD
Associate Clinical Director, NICU
Clinical Professor at UCLA
Cedars Sinai Medical Center #4311
Karen Ramstrom, DO
Policy Development
Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program
Department of Public Health
William Rhine, MD
Stanford University, Department of Neonatology
Charles F. Simmons, MD
Director of Neonatology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Division of Neonatology
Leona Shields, RN, MN, NP
Nurse Consultant III
Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
Program- RPPC &CDAPP
California Department of Public Health
Mandhir Suri, MD (alternate for Dr. Wozniak)
Children’s Specialists of San Diego
at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women
Neonatology Department
Richard E. Topel, MD
NICU, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
Lucy Vanotterloo, RN, MSN
Community Perinatal Network
David Wirtschafter, MD
Paul Wozniak, MD
Neonatology - Children’s Hospital and Health Center
Paul Zlotnik, MD
Neonatology - Children’s Hospital and Health Center
CPQCC Staff:
Paul Sharek, MD, MPH, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine
Medical Director of Quality Management
Chief Clinical Patient Safety Officer
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Debra Bingham, RN, MS, LCCE
CMQCC Project Director
Grace Villarin Dueñas, DPH
CPQCC Program Manager
Erika Gray
Project Manager
CCS/CPQCC HRIF Quality Care Initiative
Fulani Irving
Data Coordinator, CPQCC Data Center
State of California, Department of Health Services
Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Branch
Barbara Murphy, RN, MSN
CPQCC Program Director
Courtney Nisbet, RN, MS
CPQCC QI Project Manager
Cele Quaintance, RN, MS
Division of Neonatology
Mohammad Subeh, MA, MS
Research Assistant, CPQCC
Megan Sullivan
Program Assistant, CPQCC
High Risk Infant Follow-Up (HRIF)