Executive Committee

Dr. Fallat is the current Vice Chair of the Children’s Surgery Verification Committee for the ACS Optimal Resources for Children’s Surgical Care Program.  Besides surgical quality, her interest areas include access to care, trauma, and emergency medical services (EMS).  Dr. Fallat is funded by HRSA as program director for the KY EMS for Children program. She participated in the Institute of Medicine project “The Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System” as a member of the Subcommittee on Pediatric Emergency Care. She is a current member of the National EMS Advisory Council representing the trauma sector, a consultant to the ACS Committee on Trauma, and Vice President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She joined the hospital staff in 2017. She was previously the surgical critical care fellowship program director at the Detroit Medical Center and also served as a member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association Surgical Critical Care Committee.

One of Dr. Huang’s primary interests is promoting innovative methods to implement guidelines for standardization of best practices across institutions to advance cost-effective accurate diagnostics for pediatric surgical interventions such as appendicitis and inguinal hernias. Another important focus is effective use of electronic health record data for research and knowledge generation to aid practitioners and families in caring for pediatric patients especially with complex congenital problems, such as Hirschprung’s disease

As Surgeon-in-Chief and Chair of Surgery at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Dr. Ostlie is accountable for the Hospital’s surgical services and leadership within all surgical divisions. Dr. Ostlie also provides administrative and clinical leadership to four clinical program centers that encompass the surgical divisions, the critical care program, the neurosciences institute, and the heart center. He remains committed to education and research, and has administrative oversight for both the research and educational endeavors at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Rangel is a Pediatric General Surgeon and the Weitzman Endowed Chair for Quality & Safety at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Rangel has served as chair of APSA’s Patient Safety & Quality Committee, AAP’s Committee for the Delivery of Surgical Care, and inaugural chair of the ACS Children’s Surgery Data Steering Committee.

Mehul V. Raval, MD, MS is a pediatric general and thoracic surgeon and health services researcher with a focus on quality improvement, outcomes, and developing value-based children’s surgical care models.

KuoJen Tsao, MD

Dr. Tsao is a clinical researcher with interests in quality and safety in pediatric surgery. As the Vice-chair of Quality for the Department of Pediatric Surgery, he leads the Pediatric Surgical Safety Initiative at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital. His primary research is focused on the errors and adverse children’s events as well as efficacy of the surgical safety checklist in children’s surgery. Dr. Tsao’s research program supports medical students and surgical residents interested in pediatric surgical clinical research.