OUR PEOPLE
Suni Kaiser, MD, MSc
Professor
School of Medicine
550 16th Street, #5774
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Education and Training
Johns Hopkins University, BA - 06/2004 Public Health Studies
Washington University in St. Louis, MD - 06/2008 School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, Residency - 06/2011 Pediatrics
University of Toronto, MSc - 06/2014 Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
Hospital for Sick Children, Fellowship - 06/2014 Pediatric Hospital Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, Certificate - 03/2019 Implementation Science
Awards and Honors
Phi Beta Kappa, The Johns Hopkins University, 2004
Alpha Omega Alpha, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008
Resident Research Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2009
Young Investigator Award, Academic Pediatric Association, 2016
Society for Pediatric Research Inductee, Society for Pediatric Research, 2017
Innovation Award, American Lung Association, 2019
National Pediatric Hospital Medicine Quality and Safety Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2019
FLAG Fellowship Mentoring Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2020
Benioff UCSF Professorship in Children’s Health, University of California, San Francisco, 2022
Overview
The goal of my research program is to improve care quality and health outcomes for hospitalized children. Our focus areas include: 1) accelerating the pace at which evidence is broadly implemented into care, 2) growing the evidence base around care of common diagnoses among hospitalized children, and 3) advancing the methods and impacts of quality improvement, including impacts on health disparities. We seek to achieve these goals by conducting rigorous research with diverse, multidisciplinary research teams and by partnering with families, clinician stakeholders, and national organizations in all phases of this research (design, conduct, and dissemination). I am currently supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. I also Chair the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings Network and help steer the AAP's Pediatric Acute & Critical Care Quality Network.