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.

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