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Current PQIP Members

PQIP and its four subcommittees benefit from over 100 hours of volunteer time a month from a committed group of neonatal healthcare providers, NICU family members, and other key stakeholders. Below is a listing of our current PQIP and subcommittee membership. 

 

Aida Simonian
Chief Executive Officer
PAC/LAC

Afshan Abbasi
Neonatologist
Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Irfan Ahmad
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at UC Irvine
CHOC Children's Specialists

Lisa Bain
Clinical Associate Professor, Neonatology
Stanford University

Malathi Balasundaram
Clinical Associate Professor
Stanford University

David Braun
Regional Physician Coordinator of Neonatology
Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Courtney Breault
Associate Director of Quality
CPQCC

Henry C. Lee
Clinical Director, UCSD Neonatology
University of California San Diego / Rady Children’s Hospital

Jennifer Canvasser
Founder
NEC Society

Ritu Chitkara
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Neonatal and Developmental Medicine

Katherine Coughlin
Attending Neonatologist
Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns

Kamakshi Devarajan
Attending Neonatologist
St Francis Medical Center

Jeffrey Gould
Senior Advisor
CPQCC and Stanford University School of Medicine

Tanya Hatfield
Neonatal Outreach Educator, Intensive Care Nursery Nurse
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco

Priya Jegatheesan
Director, MICC, Division of Neonatology
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Maria A.L. Jocson
Public Health Medical Officer
California Department of Health Care Services, Integrated Systems of Care Division

Ambrisha Joshi
Neonatologist
Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Robin Koeppel
Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist/Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
University of California, Irvine Medical Center

Alexandria Kristensen-Cabrera
University of Minnesota

Ashwini Lakshmanan
Associate Professor, Department of Health Systems Science
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

Rachel Land
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine

Linda Lefrak
Retired Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist and Nurse Consultant
California Department of Public Health, Healthcare Associated Infection Program, Benioff Children’s Hospitals Oakland and San Fr

Michel Mikhael
Medical Director, Small Baby Unit; Associate Program Director; Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Orange County, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship, University of California Irvine

Brian Montenegro
Attending Neonatologist
NorthBay Medical Center

Mindy Morris
Engage/Grow/Thrive, LLC

Radhika Narang
Medical Director of Neonatal Transport, Attending Neonatologist
Valley Children’s Healthcare

Jennifer Norgaard
Valley Children’s Healthcare

Guadalupe Padilla-Robb
Assistant Clinical Professor
Harbor UCLA

Rohit Passi
Voluntary Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Attending Neonatologist
Kaiser Permanente South Bay/Downey Medical Center and University of California, Los Angeles

Kurlen Payton
Medical Director, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Pedro Paz
Associate NICU Medical Director
Tri-City Medical Center

Jochen Profit
Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator
CPQCC and Stanford University School of Medicine

Asha Puri
Associate Clinical Director, NICU
Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Jenny Quinn
Clinical Practice Manager, NICU
NorthBay Healthcare

William Rhine
Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University

Rebecca Robinson
Administrative Director
CPQCC

Elizabeth Rogers
Co-Director, Intensive Care Nursery Follow-up Program
University of California San Francisco

Catherine Rottkamp
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
UC David Children's Hospital

Jane Ryu
Assistant Professor
UCLA Medical Center (Westwood and Santa Monica)

Joseph Schulman
Director, NICU Quality Measurement and Improvement
California Children’s Services / California Department of Health Care Services

Rachelle Sey
Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist
Sharp Mary Birch Hospital

Jennifer Shepherd
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Antoine Soliman
NICU Medical Director
Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital

Karen Sullivan
Tri-City Medical Center

Giang Truong
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Loma Linda University Health

Valencia P. Walker
Vice Dean for Health Equity and Inclusion
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Sunshine Weiss
Neonatologist
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

David Wirtschafter
Neonatologist

John Yao

Terry Zeilinger
NICU Clinical Educator
Providence St. Jude Medical Center