Paul Sharek MD, MPH

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)
• Person of the year-finalist, California Association of Non-profits (2002)
• Teaching Award, Stanford Pediatrics Residency (2002)
• Housestaff teacher of the year, UCSF (1992)
• Cum Laude graduate, Pomona College (1985)
• Exchange Student, Oxford University (1984-1985)

Professional Education

• SUMC - Graduate Medical Education (1998) CA
• UCSF Medical Center (1993) CA
• Board Certification: General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (1992)
• Columbia University (1989) NY
• Fellowship, Stanford University Outcomes and Quality research (1998)
• MPH, UC Berkeley Epidemiology (1996)
• Chief Resident, UC San Francisco Pediatrics (1993)
• Resident, UC San Francisco Pediatrics (1992)
• MD, Columbia University Medicine (1989)
• BA, Pomona College Mathematics (1985)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Pediatrics

Community & International Work

• Board of Dierctors, San Francisco More »
• Overseas Healthcare, Thai-Myanmar border More »
• Overseas Healthcare, American Samoa More »
• Overseas healthcare, Liberia More »

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. Sharek PJ,  McClead RE, Taketomo C, Luria JW, Takata GS, Walti B, Tanski M, Nelson C, Logsdon TR, Thurm C, Federico F.  Pediatrics.  2008; 122 (4): e861-6
• Development, testing, and findings of a pediatric-focused trigger tool to identify medication-related harm in US children's hospitals. Takata GS,  Mason W, Taketomo C, Logsdon T, Sharek PJ.  Pediatrics.  2008; 121 (4): e927-35
• Effect of a rapid response team on hospital-wide mortality and code rates outside the ICU in a Children's Hospital. Sharek PJ,  Parast LM, Leong K, Coombs J, Earnest K, Sullivan J, Frankel LR, Roth SJ.  JAMA.  2007; 298 (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. Sharek PJ,  Horbar JD, Mason W, Bisarya H, Thurm CW, Suresh G, Gray JE, Edwards WH, Goldmann D, Classen D.  Pediatrics.  2006; 118 (4): 1332-40
• The incidence of adverse events and medical error in pediatrics. Sharek PJ,  Classen D.  Pediatr Clin North Am.  2006; 53 (6): 1067-77
• Implementation of a two-specimen requirement for verification of ABO/Rh for blood transfusion. Goodnough LT,  Viele M, Fontaine MJ, Jurado C, Stone N, Quach P, Chua L, Chin ML, Scott R, Tokareva I, Tabb K, Sharek PJ.  Transfusion.  2009; 49 (7): 1321-8
• Improving communication in a pediatric intensive care unit using daily patient goal sheets. Agarwal S,  Frankel L, Tourner S, McMillan A, Sharek PJ.  J Crit Care.  2008; 23 (2): 227-35
• Effects of the accreditation council for graduate medical education duty hour limits on sleep, work hours, and safety. Landrigan CP,  Fahrenkopf AM, Lewin D, Sharek PJ, Barger LK, Eisner M, Edwards S, Chiang VW, Wiedermann BL, Sectish TC.  Pediatrics.  2008; 122 (2): 250-8
• Rates of medication errors among depressed and burnt out residents: prospective cohort study. Fahrenkopf AM,  Sectish TC, Barger LK, Sharek PJ, Lewin D, Chiang VW, Edwards S, Wiedermann BL, Landrigan CP.  BMJ.  2008; 336 (7642): 488-91
• The use of telemedicine access to schools to facilitate expert assessment of children with asthma. Bergman DA,  Sharek PJ, Ekegren K, Thyne S, Mayer M, Saunders M.  Int J Telemed Appl.  2008; 159276
• Simulation-based medical error disclosure training for pediatric healthcare professionals. Wayman KI,  Yaeger KA, Sharek PJ, Trotter S, Wise L, Flora JA, Halamek LP.  J Healthc Qual.  2007 Jul-Aug; 29 (4): 12-9
• Best practice implementation: lessons learned from 20 partnerships. Sharek PJ,  Mullican C, Lavanderos A, Palmer C, Snow V, Kmetik K, Antman M, Knutson D, Dembry LM.  Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf.  2007; 33 (12 Suppl): 16-26
• Perceived increase in mortality after process and policy changes implemented with computerized physician order entry. Longhurst C,  Sharek P, Hahn J, Sullivan J, Classen D.  Pediatrics.  2006; 117 (4): 1450-1; author reply 1455-6
• Evaluation and development of potentially better practices to improve pain management of neonates. Sharek PJ,  Powers R, Koehn A, Anand KJ.  Pediatrics.  2006; 118 Suppl 2 S78-86
• Improved pain management in pediatric postoperative liver transplant patients using parental education and non-pharmacologic interventions. Sharek PJ,  Wayman K, Lin E, Strichartz D, Sentivany-Collins S, Good J, Esquivel C, Brown M, Cox K.  Pediatr Transplant.  2006; 10 (2): 172-7
• Implementation and case-study results of potentially better practices to improve pain management of neonates. Dunbar AE,  Sharek PJ, Mickas NA, Coker KL, Duncan J, McLendon D, Pagano C, Puthoff TD, Reynolds NL, Powers RJ, Johnston CC.  Pediatrics.  2006; 118 Suppl 2 S87-94
• Comparing the utility of a standard pediatric resuscitation cart with a pediatric resuscitation cart based on the Broselow tape: a randomized, controlled, crossover trial involving simulated resuscitation scenarios. Agarwal S,  Swanson S, Murphy A, Yaeger K, Sharek P, Halamek LP.  Pediatrics.  2005; 116 (3): e326-33
• Effectiveness of a multicomponent self-management program in at-risk, school-aged children with asthma. Shames RS,  Sharek P, Mayer M, Robinson TN, Hoyte EG, Gonzalez-Hensley F, Bergman DA, Umetsu DT.  Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol.  2004; 92 (6): 611-8
• Implementing potentially better practices to reduce lung injury in neonates. Burch K,  Rhine W, Baker R, Litman F, Kaempf JW, Schwarz E, Sun S, Payne NR, Sharek PJ.  Pediatrics.  2003; 111 (4 Pt 2): e432-6
• Evaluation and development of potentially better practices to prevent chronic lung disease and reduce lung injury in neonates. Sharek PJ,  Baker R, Litman F, Kaempf J, Burch K, Schwarz E, Sun S, Payne NR.  Pediatrics.  2003; 111 (4 Pt 2): e426-31
• Effect of an evidence-based hand washing policy on hand washing rates and false-positive coagulase negative staphylococcus blood and cerebrospinal fluid culture rates in a level III NICU. Sharek PJ,  Benitz WE, Abel NJ, Freeburn MJ, Mayer ML, Bergman DA.  J Perinatol.  2002; 22 (2): 137-43
• Agreement among measures of asthma status: a prospective study of low-income children with moderate to severe asthma. Sharek PJ,  Mayer ML, Loewy L, Robinson TN, Shames RS, Umetsu DT, Bergman DA.  Pediatrics.  2002; 110 (4): 797-804
• The effect of inhaled steroids on the linear growth of children with asthma: a meta-analysis. Sharek PJ,  Bergman DA.  Pediatrics.  2000; 106 (1): E8
• Beclomethasone for asthma in children: effects on linear growth. Sharek PJ,  Bergman DA.  Cochrane Database Syst Rev.  2000; (2): CD001282
• The effect of home or novel environment on the facilitation of passive avoidance by post-training ethanol. Colbern DL,  Sharek P, Zimmermann EG.  Behav Neural Biol.  1986; 46 (1): 1-12