Paul Sharek MD, MPH
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
Key Documents
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital 725 Welch Rd Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 497-8000 Fax (650) 497-8465Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
- Academic Offices
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Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- General Pediatrics
- Pediatrics, General
Administrative Appointments
- Chief Clinical Patient Safety Officer, LPCH (2001 - present)
- Medical Director of Quality Management, LPCH (2000 - present)
Honors and Awards
- Faculty Honor Roll for Teaching Service,, Stanford University School of Medicine (2010)
- Faculty Honor Roll for Teaching Service,, Stanford University School of Medicine (2008)
- Faculty Teaching Honor Roll with Letter of Teaching Distinction, Stanford School of Medicine (2007)
- Champion of Family Centered Care Award, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Family Advisory Council (2007)
- Faculty Teaching Honor Roll with Letter of Teaching Distinction, Stanford School of Medicine (2006)
- Amy J Blue Award-finalist, Stanford University (2005)
Professional Education
| Fellowship: | Stanford University School of Medicine CA (1998) |
| Medical Education: | Columbia University, NY USA (1989) |
| Residency: | UCSF Medical Center CA (1993) |
| Board Certification: | General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (1992) |
| Fellowship: | Stanford University, Outcomes and Quality research (1998) |
| MPH: | UC Berkeley, Epidemiology (1996) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Community and International Work
- Board of Dierctors, San Francisco
- Overseas Healthcare, Thai-Myanmar border
- Overseas Healthcare, American Samoa
- Overseas healthcare, Liberia
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Research interests centered on hospital based quality of care improvement, and in particular pediatric patient safety. Areas of recent interest include developing practical tools to more accurately identify adverse medical events and to establish national rates of these adverse events. Additional areas of interest focus on developing the processes and systems to decrease the frequency of adverse drug events and adverse medical events at Children's hospitals in North America
Publications
- Performance characteristics of a methodology to quantify adverse events over time in hospitalized patients. Health Serv Res. 2011; (2): 654-78
- Decrease in hospital-wide mortality rate after implementation of a commercially sold computerized physician order entry system. Pediatrics. 2010; (1): 14-21
- Prevalence of adverse events in pediatric intensive care units in the United States. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2010; (5): 568-78
- Temporal trends in rates of patient harm resulting from medical care. N Engl J Med. 2010; (22): 2124-34
- Development, testing, and findings of a pediatric-focused trigger tool to identify medication-related harm in US children's hospitals. Pediatrics. 2008; (4): e927-35
- Effect of a rapid response team on hospital-wide mortality and code rates outside the ICU in a Children's Hospital. JAMA. 2007; (19): 2267-74
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