Naomi Bardach, M.D., M.A.S.

Dr. Bardach is a Professor of Pediatrics and Policy in the Department of Pediatrics and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California San Francisco and Vice Chair of Health Services Research in the Department of Pediatrics. Her research program is focused on improving the quality of inpatient and outpatient pediatric care, with a foundation in implementation and dissemination science. As PI of an NICHD-funded R01, she is collecting reports on patient safety events from family and patients in pediatric and adult inpatient units using a smartphone interface, and making those reports rapidly available to clinicians and staff to inform safety efforts.