Collaborative Initiatives for Quality Improvement (CIQI) Program

CHNC CIQI Leadership

Leadership of CHNC QI engages multiple QI partners and CHNC members to facilitate quality improvement.

Leadership of CHNC QI engages multiple QI partners and CHNC members to facilitate quality improvement.

CIQI Steering Committee

The CIQI Steering Committee provides governance and oversight of the CHNC CIQI Program.

The Steering Committee sets the strategic direction of the CHNC CIQI Program, oversees selection of Quality Improvement Collaboratives, and provides oversight of program resource development.

This multi-disciplinary group is includes physicians, nursing, and advanced practice providers that have experience with quality improvement. The CIQI Steering Committee is comprised of representatives from several member centers across the United States and Canada, including:

Co-chair
Beverly Brozanski
MD

VP of Pediatric Quality and Safety

St. Louis Children's Hospital (SLCH)-BJC Health System

Co-chair
Eugenia Pallotto
MD, MSCE

Division Chief, Neonatology

Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital
Clinical Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Co-chair
Anthony Piazza
MD

Associate Professor Emory University,
Medical Director of Neonatal Services

Atlanta, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta- Egleston Hospital

Project Manager
Aaron Rose
MBA, CPHQ

QI Program Manager

Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium

Thomas Bartman
MD, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University

Columbus, Nationwide Children's Hospital

John Chuo
MD, MS

Neonatal Quality Officer-CHOP Newborn Care Network, Director of Telemedicine, Clinical Champion for Digital Health and Innovations,  Co-director of the Digital Health Innovation Core-Center for Phenomic Science

Philadelphia, Children's Hospital  of Philadelphia(CHOP)

Melissa Duran
MSN, CRNP, NNP-BC

Surgical Nurse Practitioner

Philadelphia, Children's Hospital  of Philadelphia (CHOP)

Theresa Grover
MD

Medical Director, Children’s Hospital Colorado Anschutz NICU

Judy Hawes
NNP-BC

Nurse Practicioner

Toronto, SickKids

Con Yee Ling
MD

Medical Director of Primary Children's Newborn ICU, Neonatal Quality Director- Intermountain Obstetrics and Newborn Operations

Salt Lake City, Primary Children's Hospital

Teresa Mingrone
MSN, RN, CCRN

Programmatic Nurse Specialist

Pittsburgh Children's Hospital

Laurel Moyer
MD

Associate Professor, University of California San Diego

San Diego, Rady Children's Hospital

Joan Smith
PhD, RN, NNP-BC, FAAN

Director of Quality, Safety & Practice Excellence

St. Louis Children's Hospital (SLCH)

Lamia Soghier
MD, FAAP, CHSE

Medical unit director (NICU) , NICU Quality and Safety Officer

Washington, Children's National Hospital

CIQI Program Manager

The CIQI Program Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations and coordination of quality improvement activities for CHNC. Working with Senior Leadership and the committees and project teams, the CIQI Program manager serves as a resource to CHNC sites participating in collaboratives.

Would you like to learn more?

Contact the CHNC CIQI Program.