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
RN, BSN, MSQA
Director of Clinical Resources
Kaitlyn Hulbert
Help Desk Specialist
Alex Kaminski
Director of Engineering
Eddie Lee
Software Engineer
Manoj Naik
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
