
The VPS Team
Executive Leadership Team

Randall Wetzel
MBBS, MRCP, LRCS,
MSB, FAAP, FCCM
VPS Chief Executive Officer

Tom Rice
MD, FCCP, FAAP
VPS Chief Medical Officer

Ramesh Sachdeva
MD, PhD, MBA, JD
VPS Chief Scientific Officer

Brian Reisner
MBA
VPS Chief Operating Officer
The VPS Team

Nancy Brundage
MPH, RN, BSN, CPHQ
Senior Director,
Clinical Affairs

Cheryl Hulbert
RN, BSN, MSQA
Director of Clinical Resources

Jamie Palumbo
MA
Data Scientist
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Chrystine Fields
RNC-NIC, BSN
Clinical Resource Specialist

Vanessa Hahn
Operations Manager

Jill Hall
MSN, RN
Clinical Resource Specialist

Alex Kaminski
Director of Engineering

Kuriakose Panose
Ph.D.
Associate Data Manager

Eddie Lee
Software Engineer

Gerardo Soto-Campos
Ph.D.
Director of Analytics

Manoj Naik
Software Engineer

Ashley Sweeney
BA, RN
Clinical Resource Specialist

Jeff Valdez
Senior Software Engineer
Special Advisors
Aram Ananian, CPA
Financial Services
Binod Balakrishnan, MD
Clinical Consultant
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Critical Care
Medical College of Wisconsin
Steven Chin, MD, MMSc
Director, VPS NICU
Clinical Consultant
Medical Director, Quality & Performance Improvement
Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Jonas Grant, Attorney At Law, MBA
Legal Counsel
Howard Jeffries, MD, MBA, MPH
Clinical Consultant
Medical Director, Continuous Performance Improvement,
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Michael Luu, MPH
VPS NICU Data Analyst
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Theresa Mikhailov, MD, Ph.D., FAAP
Clinical Consultant
Professor of Pediatrics Critical Care
Medical College of Wisconsin
Matthew Scanlon, MD, CPPS
Clinical Consultant
Children's Hospital Wisconsin
Research Committee

Christine Allen
MD
The Children’s Hospital at OUMC

Todd Carpenter
MD
Children's Hospital
Colorado

Dayanand Bagdure MBBS, MPH
University of Maryland
Medical Center

Jayson Clayton
MD, PhD
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital

Brian Boville
MD
Helen DeVos
Children's Hospital

Cindy Bowens
MD
Children's Medical Center
of Dallas

Katie Boyle
MD
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt



Angela Czaja
MD
Children's Hospital
Colorado
Nick Ettinger
MD, CMQ, CPPS, FAAP
Texas Children's Hospital
Brian Flaherty
MD
Primary Children's Medical Center - Salt Lake City



Nancy Ghanayem
MD
Comer Children’s Hospital
Kevin Havlin
MD, FAAP
Norton Children’s Hospital
Emilie D. Henry
MD
Children's Hospital at
OU Health


Matt Kirschen
MD, PhD
The Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia
Cheri Landers
MD
Kentucky Children's Hospital

Melissa Mahabee
MD, MSHS
Dayton Children's Hospital




Katherine Irby
MD
Arkansas Children's Hospital

Howard Jeffries
MD, MBA, MPH
Seattle Children's Hospital

Michael McCrory
MD, MS
Brenner Wake Forest
Children's Hospital


Srinivas Murthy
MD, CM, MHSc
BC Children's Hospital

Akira Nishisaki
MD, MSCE
The Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia
Jose A. Pineda
MD, MSC
Children's Hospital
Los Angeles
Courtney Rowan
MD, MS
Riley Children's Hospital
Rebekah Shappley
MD, FAAP
Le Bonheur
Children's Hospital





Carolyn Shelak
MD, PhD
Randall Children's Hospital
Katherine Slain
DO
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital


Jill Sweeney
MD, MBA
Primary Children's Hospital
Julianne Wilke
MD
Renown Children's Hospital
Phoebe Yager
MD
MassGeneral Hospital
for Children
Bala Totapally
MD, DCH, MRCP, FAAP, FCCP, FCCM
Nicklaus Children's Hospital
Elizabeth Ulano
MD
The University of Vermont Children's Hospital
PICU Advisory Group
Phil Barton, MD
St. Francis Tulsa
Paul Bauer, MD
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Brian Boville, MD
Helen DeVos Children’s
Cindy Darnell-Bowens, MD
Children’s Med Center Dallas
Angela Czaja, MD
Colorado Children’s Hospital
Costa Dimitriades, MD
UC Davis Children’s Hospital
Michael Forbes, MD
Akron Children’s Hospital
Maria Galletto, RN
Kaiser North Hospitals
Leslie Hayes, MD
Children’s Hospital Alabama
Curtis Kennedy, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital
Jaime LaVelle, RN
Colorado Children’s Hospital
Michael McCrory, MD
Brenner-Wake Forest
Vicki Montgomery, MD
Norton Children’s Hospital
Justine O’Flynn, RN
Norton Children’s Hospital
Stacy Pennington, RN
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Steven Shein, MD
UH Children’s (Rainbow Babies)
Danielle Traynor, RN
Children’s Hospital-Philadelphia
Board of Directors

Conrad Band
Chief Information Security Officer
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Grace Oh
JD, MBA
Sr. VP and General Counsel
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Amy Knight
President
Children's Hospital Association

Randall Wetzel
MBBS, MRCP, LRCS,
MSB, FAAP, FCCM
VPS CEO
Dept. of Anesthesiology
Critical Care Medicine
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

M. Scott Lieberenz
CPA
Sr. VP and CFO
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
