Position:
Pediatrician and Medical Director for Quality and Safety at Children's Community Pediatrics
Work:
Children's Community Pediatrics
- Greater Pittsburgh Area since Mar 2012
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Pediatrician and Medical Director for Quality and Safety
University of Pittsburgh
Apr 2008 - Mar 2012
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Medical Writer, Senior Project Coordinator
Pediatrics South
Apr 2002 - Jan 2005
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Pediatrician
Premier Medical Associates
Aug 1999 - Feb 2002
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Pediatrician
Education:
University of Pittsburgh 2006 - 2008
BA (honors), English
University of Pennsylvania 1992 - 1996
MD, Medicine
Harvard University 1988 - 1992
BA (magna cum laude), Biochemistry
Skills:
Six Sigma Green Belt, Patient Safety, Healthcare improvement, Healthcare, Public Health, Healthcare Management, Hospitals, Clinical Research, Medicine, Public Speaking, Infectious Diseases, Healthcare Information Technology, Medical Education
Interests:
Patient safety and advocacy: please read my personal narrative at http://www.pulsemagazine.org/Archive_Index.cfm?content_id=119, health care quality improvement, maternity and pediatric care
Honor & Awards:
"Babel: The Voices of a Medical Trauma." Pulse April 2010. http://www.pulsemagazine.org/Archive_Index.cfm?content_id=119
2008 Ossip Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing, First Place, "From Tears to Titters: The Shakespeare Burlesque and Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Receptions"
2008 J.K. and Gertrude Miller Essay Award, First Place, "Worth More Dead Than Alive: The Saint-Making of Thomas Becket"
1988 National Merit Scholar
1988 Presidential Scholar
1988 Westinghouse/Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist
Certifications:
Six Sigma Green Belt, American Society for Quality (ASQ)