Alumni Highlights
This fellowship completely changed the course of my career. Being a Patient Safety Fellow allowed me to explore and act on my interests in provider burnout, secondary trauma, and resiliency. The structure of the fellowship gave me the mentorship and skills I needed to conceptualize a project and then carry it through the stages of implementation and ongoing management. With these skills and experiences, I have been able to make my interests in patient safety and provider burnout and resiliency as a central part of my career, and I could not be happier to be able to spend a portion of my time working to create a more supportive environment for our physicians and staff.”
The patient safety fellowship year integrated skills from my different professional paths, enabling me to step into a clinical career with a strong foundation of systems analysis and problem solving through a patient safety lens. I’m so grateful for the time and space to explore questions at the intersection of healthcare administration, organizational behavior and psychology, and the practice of medicine. One of the key strengths of this program is the individualized coaching throughout the process from developing the research question to designing the study and ultimately communicating your findings to impact systemic change.”
| Year | Name | Fellowship Project | Current Affiliation |
| 2022-2023 | Victoria Fort, MD | Trauma Informed Care in the Pediatric Clinic | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente East Bay |
| 2022-2023 | Karen Hauser, MD | Development and Implementation of a Geriatric Emergency Department | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco |
| 2022-2023 | Claudia Lopez, MD | 1. ObGyn Pre-Delivery Anemia Optimization 2. Workflow for Pregnant Patients who Decline Blood Products | Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow, UC Davis |
| 2021-2022 | Marie Boller, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology | Intimate Partner Violence Death Reviews | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente Diablo |
| 2021-2022 | Zeenat Khan, MD, Emergency Medicine | Disparities in Emergency Department pain management. | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente East Bay |
| 2020-2021 | Justine(Vi) Ngo, MD, MHA Pediatrics |
Culture, communication and psychological safety during COVID-19 | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and East Bay |
| 2020-2021 | Katie Hatch, MD, Emergency Medicine | Social Health and Emergency Medicine | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente East Bay |
| 2019-2020 | Serene Chen, MD Emergency Medicine |
Mental Health crisis in emergency departments | Attending Physician, California Pacific Medical Center |
| 2019-2020 | Jeyling Chou, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology |
Electronic detection and rescue for maternal deterioration | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente San Jose |
| 2018-2019 | Molly Tolins, MD Emergency Medicine |
Care for Caregivers after Adverse and Unexpected Events: A Peer Support Program Implementation in High-Risk Departments | Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine & Physician Lead, Provider Outreach Support Team |
| 2018-2019 | Elayna Ng, MD Pediatrics |
Appropriate Activation of a Pediatric Rapid Response Team based upon Pediatric Early Warning Scores; Establishing a Standardized Quality Improvement Curriculum Region Wide Within Kaiser Permanente |
Attending Physician, University of California Los Angeles |
| 2018-2019 | Kanchi Batra, MD Internal Medicine |
Optimization of deterioration algorithm in hospitalized post-cardiac procedure patients; Point-of-care ultrasound training in an internal medicine residency |
Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco. Course Director, PuLSE Program, UCSF-Kaiser Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship. Lead quality improvement advisor, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Internal Medicine Residency |
| 2017-2018 | Sandhya Ravichandran, MD Anesthesiology |
1. Intraoperative lung protective ventilation 2. Glucose management of perioperative obstetric patients 3. Chronic pain conversion in post-surgical patients |
Surgical Quality Lead for GSAA, Kaiser Permanente |
| 2017-2018 | Paul J. Marc, MD, PhD Anesthesiology |
Perioperative blood glucose optimization to decrease surgical site infection | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente Central Valley |
| 2016-2017 | Vishal Patel, MD Internal Medicine |
Kidney failure in cardiac catheterization patients; cutting-edge measures of long-term health in post-cardiac surgery patients | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco. Assistant Chief of Quality for Patient Safety |
| 2016-2017 | Maria Beylin, MD Emergency Medicine |
Reliable delivery of lung protective ventilation for emergently intubated patients; reliable design, order sets, downstream outcomes and length of stay in ICU | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara |
| 2015-2016 | Leslie Hale, MD Anesthesiology and Critical Care |
Preoperative blood optimization | Attending Physician |
| 2015-2016 | Piysuh Gupta, MD Internal Medicine |
Proactive colorectal enhanced screening | Vice President, Population Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona |
| 2014-2015 | Naomi Adler, MD Emergency Medicine |
Enhanced recovery after surgery: ED nerve blocks for patients with hip fractures and High fidelity simulation for patient safety education and maintenance of skills | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente East Bay. Assistant Program Director, KP Northern California Patient Safety Fellowship. Medical Director Outside Services |
| 2014-2015 | Rohan Paul, MBBS Internal Medicine, Nephrology |
1. A model for a bedside ultrasound & procedural curriculum for medicine residency programs. 2. Early detection of impending physiologic deterioration amongst hospitalized patients in Kaiser Permanente | Attending Physician, George Washington University Hospital |
| 2013-2014 | Merritt McLean, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology |
Simulation for Clinic Procedures and Emergencies; Regional Pre-Eclampsia QI Initiative | Assistant Medical Director of Perinatal Services, KP SFO |
| 2013-2014 | Alex Dummett, MD Internal Medicine |
Implementation of Rescue with Industry Leading Deterioration Score | Attending Physician and Associate Program Director, Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic Internal Medicine Residency Program |
| 2012-2013 | Ami Kapadia, MD Internal Medicine |
End of Life Planning in Oncology Patients | Attending Physician, Kaiser Permanente Daly City |
| 2012-2013 | Ben Mansalis, MD Internal Medicine |
Evidence Based Ventilation in ARDS Patients | Chief Information Officer, INTEGRIS Health |