Lauren Destino MD

Lauren Destino, MD, is the Associate Division Chief of the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Division Medical Director of Acute Care at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (LPCHS), and a Clinical Professor at Stanford University. She was a site co-investigator for the I-PASS study at Stanford and the site Principal Investigator for the PCORI grant, Bringing I-PASS to the Bedside: A Communication Bundle to Improve Patient Safety and Experience. She is involved in several quality and process improvement-related activities at LPCHS. She is the director of a required quality improvement rotation for residents and co-directs the scholarly concentration for quality and process improvement. Her research interests include communication among the care team (inclusive of patients and families), patient flow throughout the hospital, and value-centered improvement.