PQIP and its four subcommittees benefit from over 100 hours of volunteer time a month from a committed group of neonatal healthcare providers, NICU family members, and other key stakeholders. Below is a listing of our current PQIP and subcommittee membership. 

 

Current PQIP and PQIP Committee Member

Afshan Abbasi
Neonatologist
Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Irfan Ahmad
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at UC Irvine
CHOC Children's Specialists

Lisa Bain
Clinical Associate Professor, Neonatology
Stanford University

Malathi Balasundaram
Clinical Associate Professor
Stanford University

Beth Berry
NICU RN
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital

David Braun
Regional Physician Coordinator of Neonatology
Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Courtney Breault
Associate Director of Quality
CPQCC

Jennifer Canvasser
Founder
NEC Society

Rowena Cayabyab

Ritu Chitkara
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Neonatal and Developmental Medicine

Katherine Coughlin
Attending Neonatologist
Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns

Fulani Davis
Program Manager
CPQCC

Kamakshi Devarajan
Attending Neonatologist
St Francis Medical Center

Tanisha Dickens

Andrea Ferroni
Coordinator Perinatal Programs
Regional Perinatal Programs of California

Adam Frymoyer
Stanford Medicine

Tanya Hatfield
Neonatal Outreach Educator, Intensive Care Nursery Nurse
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco

Kaley Haymond
Rady Children’s Health
Clinical Nurse Specialist, NICU

Susan R. Hintz
HRIF Medical Director
CPQCC and Stanford University School of Medicine

Bryan Homyak

Sandra Iacob

Priya Jegatheesan
Director, MICC, Division of Neonatology
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Neha Joshi

Ambrisha Joshi
Neonatologist
Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Robin Koeppel
Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist/Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
University of California, Irvine Medical Center

Ashwini Lakshmanan
Associate Professor, Department of Health Systems Science
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

Rachel Land
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford Medicine

Henry C. Lee
Clinical Director, UCSD Neonatology
University of California San Diego / Rady Children’s Hospital

Yi Li

Leslie Lusk
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

Jessica Matei

Anjelica Montano
Health Program Specialist II & Title V Child and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Coordinator

Brian Montenegro
Attending Neonatologist
NorthBay Medical Center

Mindy Morris
Engage/Grow/Thrive, LLC

Radhika Narang
Medical Director of Neonatal Transport, Attending Neonatologist
Valley Children’s Healthcare

Jennifer Norgaard
Valley Children’s Healthcare

Guadalupe Padilla-Robb
Assistant Clinical Professor
Harbor UCLA

Vidya Pai

Jaclyn Pasko
California Department of Public Health
Child and Adolescent Public Health Medical Officer

Kurlen Payton
Medical Director, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Pedro Paz
Assistant Chief of Neonatology
Kaiser Permanente San Marcos and San Diego

Jochen Profit
Principal Investigator
CPQCC and Stanford Medicine

Asha Puri
Associate Clinical Director, NICU
Cedars Sinai Medical Center

William Rhine
Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford Medicine

Elizabeth Rogers
Co-Director, Intensive Care Nursery Follow-up Program
University of California San Francisco

Catherine Rottkamp
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
UC David Children's Hospital

Jane Ryu
Assistant Professor
UCLA Medical Center (Westwood and Santa Monica)

Joseph Schulman
Director, NICU Quality Measurement and Improvement
California Children’s Services / California Department of Health Care Services

Rachelle Sey
Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist
Sharp Mary Birch Hospital

Tom Shimotake
Neonatologist, Professor of Pediatrics
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco

Antoine Soliman
NICU Medical Director
Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital

Theodora (Lola) Stavroudis

Marianna Volodarskiy

Kathy Weiss

Sunshine Weiss
Neonatologist
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

John Yao