Who We Are
Meet the VPS Team
MEET OUR TEAM
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Randall Wetzel
MBBS, MRCP, LRCS,
MSB, FAAP, FCCM
VPS Chief Executive Officer

Tom Rice
MD, FCCP, FAAP
VPS Chief Medical Officer

Ramesh Sachdeva
MD, PhD, MBA,
FAAP, FCCM
VPS Chief Scientific Officer

Brian Reisner
MBA
VPS Chief Operating Officer
THE VPS TEAM

Nancy Brundage
MPH, RN, BSN, CPHQ
Senior Director, Clinical Affairs

Chrystine Fields
RNC-NIC, BSN
Clinical Resource Specialist

Vanessa Hahn
Operations Manager

Jill Hall
MSN, RN
Clinical Resource Specialist

Cheryl Hulbert
MSQA, BSN, RN
Director of Clinical Resources

Kaitlyn Hulbert
Data Support Specialist

Alex Kaminski
Director of Engineering

Eddie Lee
Senior Software Engineer

Manoj Naik
Senior Software Engineer

Jamie Palumbo
MA
Senior Data Scientist

Kuriakose Panose
PhD, MS
Associate Data Manager

Gerardo Soto-Campos
PhD, MS
Director of Analytics

Jeff Valdez
Senior Software Engineer

Ashley Sweeney
Clinical Resource Specialist
Special Advisors
Aram Ananian, CPA
Financial Services
Binod Balakrishnan, MD
Clinical Consultant
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Critical Care
Medical College of Wisconsin
Steven Chin, MD, MMSc
Director, VPS NICU
Clinical Consultant
Medical Director, Quality & Performance Improvement
Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Jonas Grant, Attorney At Law, MBA
Legal Counsel
Pamela Peterson, MD, FAAP
Texas Children’s Hospital
Clinical Advisor
Howard Jeffries, MD, MBA, MPH
Clinical Consultant
Medical Director, Continuous Performance Improvement
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Theresa Mikhailov, MD, PhD, FAAP
Clinical Consultant
Professor of Pediatrics Critical Care
Medical College of Wisconsin
Matthew Scanlon, MD, CPPS
Clinical Consultant
Children’s Hospital Wisconsin
PICU Advisory Group
Paul Bauer, MD
Dell Children’s Hospital
Brian Boville, MD
Helen DeVos Children’s
Cindy Bowens, MD
Children’s Health-Dallas
Costa Dimitriades, MD
Kaiser Roseville
Michael Forbes, MD
Akron Children’s Hospital
Daniel Garros, MD
Stollery Children’s
Ikram Haque UI, MD
Sidra Medicine
Leslie Hayes, MD
UAB Medical Center
Josh Koch, MD
Phoenix Children’s
Michael McCrory, MD
Brenner-Wake Forest
Chris Page-Goertz, MD
Akron Children’s
Jose Pineda, MD
UCLA Mattel Children’s
Melissa Porter, MD
Norton Children’s
Steven Shein, MD
Rainbow Babies
Lece Webb, MD
Children’s Alabama
Cassie Bergero, RN
Lucile Packard-Stanford
Elizabeth DiGiacomo, RN
Sick Kids Toronto
Anna Fritz, RN
Duke Children’s
Maria Galletto, RN
Kaiser North
Audrey Karbon, RN
UK Healthcare
Jaime LaVelle, RN
Children’s Colorado
Jackie Touch, RN
CHOC
Danielle Traynor, RN
CHOP
Binod Balakirshnan, MD
VPS Clinical Team
Howard Jeffries, MD
VPS Clinical Team
Theresa Mikhailov, MD
VPS Clinical Team
Pamela Petersen, MD
VPS Clinical Team
Matt Scanlon, MD
VPS Clinical Team
Tom Rice, MD
VPS ELT
Ramesh Sachdeva, MD
VPS ELT
Randall Wetzel, MD
VPS ELT
Nancy Brundage, RN
VPS
Cheryl Hulbert, RN
VPS
Alex Kaminski
VPS
Gerardo Soto-Campos
VPS
Board of Directors

Mike Berger
MSBA
Enterprise Chief Data Officer
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Lara Khouri
MBA, MPH
Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Amy Knight
President
Children’s Hospital Association

M. Scott Lieberenz
CPA
Sr. VP and CFO
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Randall Wetzel
MBBS, MRCP, LRCS,
MSB, FAAP, FCCM
VPS CEO
Dept. of Anesthesiology
Critical Care Medicine
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles