Stanford Medicine Children’s Health taps Dr. Grace Lee as new chief quality officer

Grace Lee, MD, has been selected as the chief quality officer at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. She will begin overseeing the quality and safety of Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Dec. 12.

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Dr. Lee first joined Stanford Children’s as associate chief medical officer of practice innovation in 2017, according to a Dec. 1 press release. In this role, she established the value improvement program and clinical registry program at Stanford Children’s, along with focusing on quality improvement, nursing and infection control teams.

In her new role, Dr. Lee will lead best-practice programs focusing on exceeding clinical outcomes on a national scale and work to deepen health equity in Stanford Children’s Health’s quality practices. She will also work with faculty and care teams to improve quality and safety.

Dr. Lee, who was recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine, is also a professor of pediatrics focusing on infectious diseases at Stanford Medicine and serves as chair of the U.S. advisory committee on immunization practices.

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