Raj Srivastava MD, FRCP(C), MPH
Dr. Srivastava is a Founder of the I-PASS Institute and a member of the Executive Council of the I-PASS Study Group. He is the Assistant Vice President of Research at Intermountain Healthcare, a system-wide role, and the Medical Director of the Office of Research. He is also currently serving as the Vice-Chair of Research, Department of Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, Intermountain Healthcare. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah in the Division of Inpatient Medicine, and a practicing pediatric hospitalist at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. Dr. Srivastava is the past chair of the only funded hospitalist network, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS). PRIS is a > 100 hospital research and implementation network that has 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 the I-PASS studies that are studying system-level interventions using quality improvement methods to improve patient safety.