Paul Sharek MD, MPH
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - General
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
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Academic Offices
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Professional Snapshot
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 Teaching Honor Roll with Letter of Teaching Distinction, Stanford School of Medicine (2008)
- 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)
- Faculty Teaching Honor Role, Stanford School of Medicine (2004)
Professional Education
| Fellowship: | SUMC - Graduate Medical Education, CA (1998) |
| Residency: | UCSF Medical Center, CA (1993) |
| Board Certification: | General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (1992) |
| Medical Education: | Columbia University, NY (1989) |
| Fellowship: | Stanford University, Outcomes and Quality research (1998) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Community & International Work
Scientific Focus
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
- An intervention to decrease narcotic-related adverse drug events in children's hospitals. Pediatrics. 2008; (4): e861-6
- 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
- Adverse events in the neonatal intensive care unit: development, testing, and findings of an NICU-focused trigger tool to identify harm in North American NICUs. Pediatrics. 2006; (4): 1332-40
- The incidence of adverse events and medical error in pediatrics. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2006; (6): 1067-77
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