Program Goals
Overview
PEDSnet Scholars: A Learning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research (LHS E-STaR) Center (P30)
The PEDSnet Scholars Program is a grant awarded under the AHRQ and PCORI Learning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research Centers (P30). Beginning in 2024, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI®) is investing up to $80 million dollars in 16 institutions over 5 years to support the training of clinician and research scientists to conduct patient-centered outcomes research within learning health systems (LHS). The institutions funded under this initiative are producing the next generation of LHS researchers who have the skill sets to conduct, apply, and implement patient-centered outcomes research to improve quality of care and patient outcomes in a learning health system.
The PEDSnet Scholars Program is designed to prepare promising junior faculty to conduct learning health system research that will improve the efficiency, value and quality of healthcare and outcomes for children and their families. It builds upon prior efforts of multidisciplinary faculty with decades of experience in research mentorship and the resources of 12 nationally renowned pediatric academic medical centers that have collaborated together in the PEDSnet clinical research network since its founding in 2013. PEDSnet scholars will learn and use new methods that leverage modern clinical data systems and test interventions in pragmatic child/family-centered outcomes research studies, embedded in diverse delivery systems and communities.
The PEDSnet Scholars Program is being administratively led by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and designed and overseen collaboratively with Boston Children's Hospital and Nationwide Children's Hospital. In addition, representatives from all PEDSnet institutions serve on the Steering Committee which makes all final decisions on content and program activities.
Current Scholars
Andrew Tran MD, MS
Dr. Tran is Director of Preventive Cardiology and an assistant professor in The Heart Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, helping to […]
Farah Brink MD
Farah Brink, MD, is a child abuse pediatrician at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio […]
Sophie Allende-Richter, MD, MPH
Sophie Allende-Richter, MD, MPH, is a general pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist, aiming to pursue a career in patient-centered outcomes […]
Claire Abraham, MD, MPH
Claire Abraham, MD, MPH, is an Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She completed a postdoctoral Master of Public Health […]
Tahagod Mohamed, MD
Dr. Mohamed is a Pediatric Nephrologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatric at the Ohio State […]
Christina Fisher, MD, MSCS
Dr. Fisher is an Assistant Professor and neonatologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado. She completed medical […]
Michelle Lopez, MD, MPH
Michelle Lopez, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hospital Medicine, […]
Rebecca Dang, MD, MSEpi
Dr. Rebecca Dang is an Instructor in the Division of General Pediatrics at Stanford University. She earned her medical degree […]
Sarah Dain, MD
Dr. Dain is an instructor and attending physician in the Division of Hematology, Department of Pediatrics at CHOP with a […]
Sarah Wawrzynski, PhD, CCRN
“Dr. Wawrzynski is an Assistant Nurse Scientist in the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Co-Director of Nursing Research at […]
Kenneth McKinley, MD
Dr. McKinley is an Assistant Director of Data Analytics and Informatics in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children’s National Hospital […]
Anna Abrams, MD
Dr. Abrams is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the section of emergency medicine at University of Colorado and an […]
Jason Jones, PhD
Dr. Jones is a Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the […]
Scott Jelinek, MD, MPH, MAEd
Dr. Jelinek (he/him) is an Adolescent Medicine physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an Instructor of Pediatrics […]
LHS Leaders Webinar Series
The NW Learning Health Systems Center of Excellence and K12 is pleased to announce the launch of the LHS Leaders Webinar Series. This series features webinars by leaders in learning health systems science. Speakers share their career pathway and thoughts on future directions in LHS science.
Scholars Program Application
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