Additional Opportunities for Trainees

Stanford Resident Safety Council

The Stanford Resident Safety Council (RSC) is open to residents and fellow from all departments. The RSC completes annual projects aimed at topics of broad interest, such as building a better discharge process or breaking down barriers to efficient MD to RN communication. In recent years, Neurology residents have served in a number of leadership positions in the RSC. In 2023-2024, Dr. Mark Keroles is serving as the Health Information Technology Co-Chair of RSC.

Academic Year

Resident Leader

RSC Leadership Position

2023-2024

Mark Keroles, MD

Co-Chair, Health Information Technology

2022-2023

Katherine Xiong, MD

Co-Chair, Resident Safety Council

2022-2023

Mark Keroles, MD

Co-Chair, Health Information Technology

2021-2022

Katherine Xiong, MD

Associate Co-Chair, Resident Safety Council

2021-2022

Mark Keroles, MD

Chair, Education

2020-2021

Jenny Chen, MD, MBA

Co-Chair, Resident Safety Council

2020-2021

Esther Nie, MD, PhD

Chair, Education & TeamSTEPPS initiative

2019-2020

Hilary Wang, MD, MBA

Chair, Education & TeamSTEPSS initiative

2018-2019

Katherine Werbaneth, MD

Co-Chair, Resident Safety Council

2017-2018

Katherine Werbaneth, MD

Co-Chair, Resident Safety Council

2016-2017

Rebecca Miller-Kuhlmann, MD

Team Member, MD-RN Communication Project

2015-2016

Kassi Kronfeld, MD

Team Member, Transfers of Care Project

2015-2016

Rebecca Miller-Kuhlmann, MD

Team Member, Obtaining Outside Records Project

2014-2015

Sara Stern-Nezer, MD

Team Member, Goals of Care Task Force

Neurology Resident & Fellow Safety Champions

Every year, residents from every clinical department volunteer to serve as Resident Safety Champions. In 2023-2024, the Neurology Resident Champion is Heather Ma (PGY3).

Responsibilities include:

  • Serving as a member of the Resident Safety Council, an institution wide group of residents and fellows working on quality improvement projects that address organization-wide initiatives
  • Serving as a member of the Neurology Quality Council
  • Serving as a trainee representative for Neurology quality improvement initiatives by helping embed residents into existing departmental QI structures
  • Serving as a member of the RSC Advisory Council to provide consultation to SHC projects.
  • Leading teamwork/ARCC training and health equity for their peers

 

Fellows can also serve in a similar role. In 2023-2024, Neurocritical Care fellows Lia Franco, Sung Dave Jeon, and Aaron Kaplan along with Pediatric Epilepsy fellow Katherine Xiong are serving as the Neurology Fellow Safety Champions.

If you are interested in learning more about serving as Neurology Resident or Fellow Safety Champion, please contact Carl Gold.

Heather Ma, MD

Lia C. Franco, MD

Sung (Dave) Jeon, MD

Aaron Kaplan, MD

Katherine Xiong, MD

Academic Year

Neurology Resident Safety Champion(s)

Neurology Fellow Safety Champion(s)

2023-2024

Heather Ma

Lia Franco (Neurocritical Care)

Sung Dave Jeon (Neurocritical Care)

Aaron Kaplan (Neurocritical Care)

Katherine Xiong, MD (Pediatric Epilepsy)

2022-2023

Nicholas Schwartz

Jacqueline Summers-Stromberg

Anirudh Sreekrishnan (Stroke)

2021-2022

Jenny Chen

Mark Keroles

Nicholas Schwartz

Jacqueline Summer-Stromberg

Connie Wu

Anirudh Sreekrishnan (Stroke)

2020-2021

Jenny Chen

Connie Wu

Shefali Dujari (Neurohospitalist)

2019-2020

Hilary Wang

Tarini Goyal (Neurohospitalist)

2018-2019

Tarini Goyal

2017-2018

Tarini Goyal

Quality Improvement Focus

The Stanford Neurology Residency Program has developed areas of focus, including Quality Improvement. Residents may elect to participate in the Quality Improvement focus, with the goal of completing mandatory and elective educational and leadership opportunities and completing a scholarly project with faculty mentorship. For additional details about the Quality Improvement Focus, please contact Vice Chair for Education, Dr. Neil Schwartz, or the Directors of the Quality Improvement Focus: Dr. Carl Gold, Dr. Katie Kvam, and Dr. Laurice Yang.

Quality Improvement Elective

Stanford Neurology residents may elect to spend one or more two-week blocks to accelerate progress on an improvement project or to prepare the results of an improvement project for publication. The elective includes frequent mentoring meetings. During the elective, residents have the opportunity to attend departmental and hospital-wide meetings about quality and patient safety. To learn more about the Quality Improvement elective, please contact Dr. Carl Gold.