Executive Committee

Douglas Barnhart is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Utah and is the Medical Director for Surgical Quality and Safety at Primary Children’s Hospital. He served as Chair of the Steering and Measurement and Evaluation Committees for American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Pediatric (NSQIP-Pediatric). He participated in the Task Forces for Children’s Surgery that preceded the ACS Children’s Surgery Verification Program (CSVP). He is currently the Co-Chair for the Children’s Surgery Verification Program. Doug is a Councilor of the American Board of Surgery and is Vice-Chair of the Pediatric Surgery Board.

Dr. Campbell has a broad interest in pediatric surgery with expertise in minimally invasive surgery, enteral access, pediatric gynecology, pediatric thoracic surgery, solid tumors, inflammatory bowel disease, trauma, burns, and neonatal surgery. His research activities are focused on childhood injury prevention and health services research in pediatric surgery with an emphasis on surgical quality. Dr. Campbell was a member of former governor Jodi Rell’s Teen Driving Task Force that provided evidenced-based recommendations to the state legislature on how to improve Connecticut’s graduated driver licensing laws. He is currently the State Chair for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.

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.

Raquel Gonzalez, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
St. Petersburg, FL

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.

Eunice Huang, MD. MS
Professor of Pediatric Surgery
Vice Chair for Clinical Services
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship
Vice Chair for Surgical Quality & Patient Safety
Section of Surgical Sciences
Associate Surgeon-in-Chief
Chief Surgical Quality and Innovations Officer
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital
Nashville, TN

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

Kevin Lally, MD, MS, FACS
Executive Director

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.