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
Software Engineer

Manoj Naik
Senior Software Engineer

Jamie Palumbo
MA
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
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Brian Boville, MD
Helen DeVos Children’s
Cindy Darnell-Bowens, MD
Children’s Med Center Dallas
Angela Czaja, MD
Colorado Children’s Hospital
Costa Dimitriades, MD
Kaiser Permanente Roseville
Michael Forbes, MD
Akron Children’s Hospital
Maria Galletto, RN
Kaiser North Hospitals
Leslie Hayes, MD
Children’s Hospital Alabama
Curtis Kennedy, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital
Jaime LaVelle, RN
Colorado Children’s Hospital
Michael McCrory, MD
Brenner-Wake Forest
Vicki Montgomery, MD
Norton Children’s Hospital
Stacy Pennington, RN
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Steven Shein, MD
UH Children’s (Rainbow Babies)
Danielle Traynor, RN
Children’s Hospital-Philadelphia
Board of Directors

Conrad Band
Chief Information Security 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

Grace Oh
JD, MBA
Sr. VP and General Counsel
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

Mark Wietecha
CEO
Children’s Hospital Association