GRANT OPPORTUNITY

The Lillie and Donnelly
Seed Grant Program

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

The Stanford Medicine Center for Improvement (SMCI) aims to cultivate a culture of continuous improvement across Stanford Medicine, with the goal of coming the best at getting better. SMCI seeks to improve the Value (safety, quality, patient experience, equity, efficiency, and cost) of health and health care, and we serve as the home for learning and knowledge generation for improvement science.

Through the Lillie and Donnelly Seed Grant Program, we aim to harness the expertise of faculty, trainees, and staff at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (LPCHS) and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health (SMCH) to develop and implement innovative projects designed to improve our performance and the quality of health care we deliver to our patients and families.

The upcoming grants will focus on enhancing the experience and efficiency of patient flow and access at LPCHS and SMCH. We plan to announce the next cycle of grant applications early in 2025 and look forward to your submissions!

RECIPIENTS

FY23 Awardees

Professor Emerita, Pediatrics (Rheumatology)

Christy Sandborg, MD

PROJECT TITLE

Advanced Inclusive Communication Training

Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)

Baraka Floyd, MD

PROJECT TITLE

Presence 5 for Racial Justice-Pediatrics: Educating a novel curriculum to disseminate anti-racism practices for improvement in pediatric care

Jonathan Shaw, MD, MS

Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health) & Clinical Associate Professor, by courtesy Obstetrics & Gynecology

PROJECT TITLE

Partnered Needs Assessment to understand current patterns of perinatal LPCH to San Mateo County WIC referrals to inform future improvement

Lisa Bain, MD

Clinical Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatal and Developmental Medicine)

PROJECT TITLE

Implementation of the POKE Score Tool to reduce unnecessary painful procedures in the NICU

Clinical Assistant Professor, Urology

Kathleen Kan, MD

PROJECT TITLE

Increasing Access to Bladder Bootcamp health education for Spanish-speaking families

RECIPIENTS

FY24 Awardees

Clinical Fellow, Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)

Katie Czepiel, MD

PROJECT TITLE

Improving Access to Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Cardiology)

Alice Ramirez, MD

PROJECT TITLE

Increasing Access to Neurodevelopmental Care for Cardiac Patients

Matthew Muffly, MS, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

PROJECT TITLE

Reducing the Burden of Wheel Obstructions in the OR

Daniel Tawfik, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Critical Care)

PROJECT TITLE

Implementing an Algorithmic Approach to Reduce Prescribing Errors

Karthik Balakrishnan, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACS

Associate Professor, Otolaryngology (Head & Neck Surgery and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics

PROJECT TITLE

EMBRACES (Empowering Bidirectional Regional Academic-Community Engagement in Surgery) Pilot Program

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