Rajendu Srivastava

Description

Raj Srivastava, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah in the Division of Inpatient Medicine, where he has worked since 2001. He is a practicing hospitalist at Primary Children"s Medical Center in Salt Lake City and is currently employed by Intermountain Healthcare as the Assistant Vice President of Research. Previously he was a Fellow of the Institute of Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Health Care where he was working on how to measure and improve inpatient quality of care for children. Dr. Srivastava attended the University of Toronto Medical School and trained at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto where he was an Associate Chief Resident. He then went on to complete a Fellowship in Health Services Research at Children`s Hospital, Boston, Harvard Medical School where much of his work was studying the impact of pediatric hospital systems. In Utah, Dr. Srivastava helped start a pilot hospitalist program, has served as Medical Director of a Medical-Surgical Unit, and is the Chair of the only funded hospitalist network, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS). PRIS is conducting several large multi-center studies that are important to the field of Hospital Medicine – including prioritizing high priority pediatric conditions that are costly, prevalent and demonstrate high inter-hospital variation in cost per admission, building data infrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), performing pediatric CER studies, and studying system-level interventions using quality improvement methods to improve patient safety.