Andrew G. Smith

Raj Srivastava, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Pediatrics (Tenured) 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 Senior Medical Executive Director of the Healthcare Delivery Institute, a center for education, implementation science, and quality improvement. Within the HDI, Dr. Srivastava leads Intermountain Healthcare's implementation science core and is responsible for the evaluation of evidence-based implementation of clinical best practices within the acute and ambulatory settings for both adult and pediatric care. Dr. Srivastava also oversees the Advanced Training Program in Clinical Quality Improvement, an in-depth course designed for healthcare professionals who need to implement and investigate quality improvement, outcome measurement, and management of clinical processes within healthcare systems. 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, served as Medical Director of a Medical-Surgical Unit, and at the national level, is the past Chair of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) network.

Dr. Lawrence received her medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and completed her Pediatric residency and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital. Following fellowship, she spent the first six years of her professional career in a high acuity, tertiary referral, and private practice facility. Upon returning to academics in 2010, she received a Master of Science degree in Clinical and Translational Sciences (2013). She is board-certified in Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and is in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Primary Children’s Medical Center. Her clinical interests include neonatal sepsis, antibiotic stewardship, and the epidemiology of congenital cytomegalovirus, neonatal herpesvirus, and congenital syphilis infections. She is also working towards universal newborn screening for congenital cytomegalovirus infection to enable rapid identification and intervention services to children at risk for sensorineural hearing loss. Her research interests lie in understanding the fundamental mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and the neonatal innate immune system, with particular focus on neonatal neutrophil function. She is also skilled at designing and successfully completing large clinical studies, with primary goals of translating innovative diagnostics and therapeutics from the bench to bedside. She has active NIH-funded research in the validation of new technology by MelioLabs in the rapid and low-cost detection and identification of pathogens (bacterial, fungal, and viral) in a single, low volume patient sample. She is also nationally funded in the investigation of host cell-membrane wrapped nanoparticles, engineered by Cellics Therapeutics, as a novel adjunctive therapeutic for neonatal sepsis.

Chris Rich, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University Of Utah School Of Medicine. Dr. Rich graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. in German and received his medical degree from the University Of Utah School Of Medicine. He completed his adult psychiatric residency at UC San Diego and his Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Utah .Dr. Rich currently works as a child psychiatrist at Primary Children’s Hospital Center for Counseling. As a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr. Rich’s clinical interests include childhood mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD treatment, early onset schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders.