Messages from NICHQ Leaders
NICHQ's leaders are special people. This diverse group of talented individuals is the driving force behind NICHQ's success. We invite you to read their interesting and inspiring commentaries on issues related to improving children's healthcare.
My Road to Medical School
Hillary Anderson, MPH, Project Manager II
May 2013
New Models of Care for Autism
Daniel Coury, MD, Medical Director of the Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network; Charlie Homer, MD, MPH, President and CEO of NICHQ; and James Perrin, MD, President-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Director of the Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health
April 2013
How My Life Course Led Me to Focus on Breastfeeding
Elaine Fitzgerald, DrPH, MIA, CLC, Associate Project Director and Perinatal Operational Lead
March 2013
Rerouting Rivers: To Health Equity…and Beyond
Tamar Kaim, Development Officer
February 2013
Beyond Bullying
Tom Dahlborg, Vice President for Strategy and Project Director
January 2013
Following-Up on the Promise of Newborn Screening
Patricia Finnerty, MS, Senior Project Manager and CYSHCN Operational Lead
December 2012
Now What?
Charlie Homer, MD, MPH, President and CEO
November 2012
Got Data?
Karen Sautter Errichetti, MPH, Associate Director of Applied Research & Evaluation
October 2012
Why Sickle Cell Awareness Month Is Important to Me
Charlie Homer, MD, MPH, President and CEO
September 2012
Great Momentum Marks National Breastfeeding Month
Karthi Streb, MPH, Director of Programs
August 2012
On the Road with PDSA
Lexi Abel, MPH, Project Manager
July 2012
Necessity Is the Mother of Innovation
Kate Vaughan, MSW, Associate Project Director
June 2012
Marianne, What Are You Doing Out Here?
Marianne McPherson, PhD, MS, Director of Applied Research and Evaluation
May 2012
My Daughter's Best Fed Beginnings
Karthi Streb, MPH, Associate Project Director
April 2012
What I Learned about Physician Autonomy at the ATM Machine
Shikha Anand, MD, MPH, Director of Strategic Alliances and Initiatives & Obesity Program Director
March 2012
An Improvement Wake-Up Call
Jonathan Small, Senior Director of Communications
February 2012
Improvement Gets Personal: Parent Involvement
Meghan A. Guinnee, PhD, Project Director
January 2012
The Relationship and Patient-Centered Care
Tom Dahlborg, Vice President for Strategy and Project Director
December 2011
Being a Yardstick of Quality for Sickle Cell Care in the US
Suzette Oyeku, MD, MPH, Project Director, Working to Improve Sickle Cell Healthcare
November 2011
Autism (Work) on the Rise
Charlie Homer, MD, MPH, President and CEO
October 2011
From Awareness to Action in Childhood Obesity
Priya Nair Heatherley, MHA, Associate Project Director
September 2011
Systems Thinking in a World of Quality Improvement
Rachel Sachs Steele, MEd, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Project Director
June 2011
Our National Quality Strategy
Charlie Homer, MD, MPH, President and CEO
May 2011
Managing the White Space: Quality Improvement at a New Level of Innovation and Partnership
Charlie Homer, MD, MPH, President and CEO
April 2011
