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Vivian Lee, MD, Pediatrics, Los Angeles, CA, Children's Hospital Los Angeles

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Pediatrics • Los Angeles, CA

Hospitalist

Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Clinician Educator)

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Summary

  • Vivian Lee, MD, is a board-certified pediatric hospitalist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Clinician Educator) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). She is the Co-Director of Quality Improvement (QI) and Patient Safety for the Division of Hospital Medicine and provides oversight of division safety event review and improvement efforts.

    Dr. Lee’s passion is in the promotion of high value, cost- and harm-conscious care to provide evidence-based, patient-centered, and quality care to hospitalized children. Her research efforts have focused on areas that impact clinical decision-making to support “safely doing less,” particularly for patients hospitalized with common diagnoses such as the young infant with fever, bronchiolitis, and urinary tract infections. She has led and participated in numerous institutional projects and national quality/value improvement collaboratives. At CHLA she serves on the Department of Pediatrics Performance Improvement and the Multidisciplinary Action Plan committees, the latter which develops and monitors adherence to evidence-based guidelines. She is a core faculty member of the Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship, co-leads the QI core curriculum for CHLA subspecialty fellows, and is involved in QI and high value care education for residents.

    Nationally, Dr. Lee is a member of the Benchmarking Advisory Committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Value In Inpatient Pediatrics (VIP) Network and a founding member of the High Value Practice Academic Alliance (HVPAA) pediatric subcommittee. She serves as a Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) representative for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) Choosing Wisely® panel, who in 2020 identified five new evidence-based recommendations for opportunities to improve healthcare value in hospitalized children.

Education & Training

  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    Children's Hospital Los AngelesFellowship, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2010 - 2012
  • Nicklaus Children's Hospital
    Nicklaus Children's HospitalResidency, Pediatrics, 2007 - 2010
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
    University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineClass of 2007

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 2010 - 2026
  • American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
  • American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Books/Book Chapters

  • AAP Pediatric Hospital Medicine Manual 
    Chapter: Acute Glomerulonephritis 
    Page 503 - 507Lee V, Maniscalco JEditors: Rauch, Gershel.American Academy of PediatricsEdition 2,2017
  • AAP Pediatric Hospital Medicine Manual 
    Chapter: Acute Glomerulonephritis 
    Page 395 - 400Lee V, Maniscalco JEditors: Rauch, Gershel.American Academy of PediatricsEdition 1,2013

Other

  • Teaching High-Value Care: Case Vignettes for Pediatric Practice 
    Walker L, Hopkins A, Rooholamini SN, McDaniel C, Jones Y, Hermann LE, Lee V, Bynum F, Tchou M, Beck J
    https://www.mededportal.org/publication/10723/
    MedEdPORTAL - 6/15/2018

Press Mentions

  • PHM Groups Issue Choosing Wisely® Recommendations
    PHM Groups Issue Choosing Wisely® RecommendationsMay 14th, 2021

Professional Memberships

Other Languages

  • Spanish

Hospital Affiliations

Dr. Vivian Lee, Dr. Vivian Lee, MD, Dr. V Lee