Cohort 1

Scholar Part of: Cohort 1

Thida Ong, MD

Thida Ong, MD

Thida Ong is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington. She is Medical Director of Quality Improvement in the Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine Division. She is the Associate Director of the Seattle Children’s Hospital Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Center. Dr. Ong serves on the leadership […]

Erica Sood, PhD

Erica Sood, PhD

Erica Sood is a pediatric psychologist embedded within the cardiac center at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. Her overarching career goal is to improve the care and outcomes of critically ill infants and their families through the integration of neurodevelopmental and family-based psychosocial interventions into medical care. Dr. Sood is also co-chair of the […]

Corinna Schultz, MD

Corinna Schultz, MD

orinna Schultz is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and an attending physician in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Nemours/AI duPont Hospital for Children. She is interested in how caregivers of children with chronic illness interpret information they […]

Aimee Hildenbrand, PhD

Aimee Hildenbrand, PhD

Aimee Hildenbrand, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science at Nemours Children’s Health System, and a pediatric psychologist in the Division of Behavioral Health at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. Dr. Hildenbrand earned her […]

Suchitra Rao, MD

Suchitra Rao, MD

Suchitra Rao, MBBS, MSCS is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the Sections of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Medicine. She is also Associate Medical Director of Infection Control at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Her research interests include the epidemiology of respiratory viruses. She has been the PI of […]

Stephanie Bourque, MD, MSCS

Stephanie Bourque, MD, MSCS

Stephanie Bourque is a neonatologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado. Her research focuses on evaluating and improving neonatal outcomes, specifically as they relate to geographic disparities on infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, better understanding the barriers to parental engagement during a prolonged birth hospitalization and optimizing the transition […]

Charles Varnell Jr., MD

Charles Varnell Jr., MD

Charles Varnell, Jr. is a faculty member of the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. As the associate medical director for kidney transplantation, his primary clinical and research interest is the optimal care for children and adolescents with a kidney transplant. Adolescents and young adults with a kidney transplant have […]

Anita Shah, DO, MMS, MPH

Anita Shah, DO, MMS, MPH

Anita Shah is an assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Divisions of Hospital Medicine and Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Shah is a fellowship-trained pediatric hospitalist with a passion for child advocacy and health policy. As a fellow, she completed her MPH at the University of […]

Katie Chiotos, MD

Katie Chiotos, MD

Katie Chiotos is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She completed a combined pediatric infectious diseases and critical care medicine fellowship, as well as a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology in 2017. Dr. Chiotos serves as Medical Director of the […]

Melissa Smith-Parrish, MD

Melissa Smith-Parrish, MD

Melissa Smith-Parrish is a cardiac intensivist at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). She also completed a Master of Science degree in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Her main research interest is optimizing patient outcomes in children undergoing cardiac surgery. She serves as the Quality Improvement Lead for the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Neonatal Cardiac Care Consortium […]

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