Kanekal Suresh Gautham MD, DM, MS, FAAP

Dr. Kanekal Suresh Gautham, MD, DM, MS, FAAP, is the Chair of Pediatrics and the Pediatrician-in-Chief at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Orlando, FL. He is also the Research Director of Nemours Children’s Hospital. He previously served as a Tenured Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, as a neonatologist at Texas Children’s Hospital, and as Section Head and Service Chief of Neonatology at Texas Children’s Hospital.

He is a Deputy Editor of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, a Senior Editor for the Neonatal Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration, and the Editor in Charge of Diagnostic Test Accuracy reviews. He is an editor of a well-known textbook, Assisted Ventilation of the Neonate, editor of Clinical Guidelines in Neonatology, and editor of the neonatology section in Rudolph Textbook of Pediatrics. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Perinatology. After his fellowship in neonatology at the University of Vermont, he served as a faculty member there and was a postgraduate fellow at the Vermont Oxford Network.

He has worked closely with the Vermont Oxford Network for many years, as a faculty member of the Vermont Oxford Network’s quality improvement collaborative, the Neonatal Intensive Care Quality (NICQ) project, and as an advisory board member for NICQ. He has set up and directed several educational courses on patient safety, evidence-based medicine, and communication in healthcare. He was chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics program, Education in Quality Improvement for Pediatric Practice (EQIPP) for 13 years and is now a member of the group managing this program.