The Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Pediatrics is pleased to announce the appointment of Kalliope Tsirilakis, MD as Director of Quality and Patient Safety Ambulatory Care at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.
In this role, Dr. Tsirilakis will work closely the Vice Chair of Quality and Patient Safety, Medical Director, and Department Leadership to enhance the safety and quality programs in the ambulatory setting as it relates to patient access, health equity, telehealth visit safety, and the implementation of new programs. Guided by Weill Cornell Medicine’s mission of health equity, Dr. Tsirilakis will align the quality and safety practices across NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Dr. Kalliope Tsirilakis is an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and an assistant attending pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital. She is also the Clinical Director of the Pediatric Asthma Programs at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.
Dr. Tsirilakis graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College and completed her residency in Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She continued her training at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in The Bronx, where she completed a Fellowship in pediatric pulmonology. She is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric pulmonology. A graduate of the Weill Cornell Quality Improvement Academy, she is currently a fellow of the Weill Cornell Healthcare Leadership Fellowship Program.
In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Tsirilakis is involved in multiple local, regional, and national quality improvement projects at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Queens. Her quality improvement initiatives span asthma education programs, chronic disease home management, community and interdisciplinary collaborations, clinical pathway development, and health care disparities.
Dr. Tsirilakis also serves as Chair of the Asthma Coalition of New York City and Co-Chair of the Asthma Partnership of New York. As Lead Faculty Advisor to the New York State Department of Health Project BREATHE-NY she has helped develop an asthma education and management program that is currently being piloted at several hospital systems across the state.