Dr. Katherine Auger is a pediatric hospitalist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her training included both a pediatric hospital medicine fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital as well as the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. Dr. Auger’s research seeks to understand reasons for pediatric hospitalizations and ways to potentially avoid unnecessary inpatient stays. She has examined pediatric readmission both broadly across diagnoses as well as specifically for asthma. She has published a validated method of identifying pediatric unplanned readmission in administrative data and a systematic review of discharge interventions to prevent readmission. She has also participated in and led work groups through the Children’s Hospital Association to examine national patterns of readmission using Potentially Preventable Readmissions Software, which is frequently used by state Medicaid offices to examine readmission. She is the only pediatrician serving on the National Quality Forum’s All Cause Admissions and Readmissions expert committee. Dr. Auger has always been motivated by policy changes and the impact on patient care. As a chief resident she orchestrated one of the first real-world pilot tests for the 2008 Institute of Medicine Work Hour regulations for residents, measuring both resident sleep and satisfaction. Her current work focuses on predicting pediatric readmission. She also is a co-investigator in the ongoing Hospital to Home Outcomes trial, led by Drs. Samir Shah and Jeffrey Simmons. This randomized control trial is studying the effectiveness of a single home health care visit after pediatric discharge on both reutilization and caregiver coping.