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
Mark Wietecha
CEO
Children's Hospital Association
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