We are very pleased to announce the promotion of Snezana Nena Osorio, M.D., M.S. to Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Osorio, who serves as Vice Chair for Quality and Patient Safety in the Department of Pediatrics, leads the Department’s Quality and Patient Safety initiatives, provides clinical care in the Division of General Academic Pediatrics, and serves as an educator in the Department. She is also an Attending Pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Since joining the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Osorio helped to develop the Patient and Family-Centered care (PFCC) Program, including the formation of the Komansky Children’s Hospital Family Advisory Council (KCH FAC) and introducing Family Centered Rounds. She serves as a Quality and Patient Safety Chair for the Department of Pediatrics and in this role she leads the Quality Council and co-leads the monthly safety event reviews.
As Vice Chair, Dr. Osorio has expanded the Komansky Children’s Hospital’s commitment to patient safety through local, regional and national initiatives, and is the Komansky Children’s Hospital leader for the National Learning Collaborative’s Solution for Patient Safety (SPS), a learning network that includes over 136 children’s hospitals and aims to eliminate all harm for pediatric patients, helping to develop the New York Presbyterian Hospital Stop for Safety Program. In 2020, Dr. Osorio will lead the New York State Regional SPS Hospitals. This group aims to reduce the rates of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI) across New York State Participating Hospitals. In addition, Dr. Osorio spearheaded TeamSTEPPS training for the Department of Pediatrics. She continues to develop integrated infrastructure for the Pediatric QI Safety Program, Pediatric QI education, and research, and serves as one of the Core Faculty at the Weill Cornell QI Academy.
In addition to her work within the Department, Dr. Osorio is recognized as a national expert in Patient Safety, and is a dedicated educator and clinician. She was the local primary investigator for an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) multi-center collaborative, “Improving Pediatric Patient Centered Care Transitions (IMPACT),” and co-led the AAP collaborative, “Reducing Excessive Variability in Infant Sepsis Evaluation (Project REVISE).” This year, she will be leading a multi-center QI collaborative, “Using Safety Cards to Engage Patients and Families in Safety,” across the New York State Regional SPS Hospitals.
She is the author and co-author of many peer reviewed publications and book chapters, and a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences on quality improvement, patient safety, and medical education. Dr. Osorio has received numerous awards for her clinical leadership and teaching skills including NewYork-Presbyterian’s Physician of the Year in 2007, and various teaching awards such as the Faculty Teaching Award, Teaching Award for the Pediatric Sub-Internship (2006 and 2013), and the Senior List for Excellence in Teaching.
Board certified in Pediatrics, Dr. Osorio received her medical degree from the University of Belgrade School of Medicine. She completed training in basic science research as a Visiting Fellow and Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medical College, where her work resulted in three publications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Osorio completed her pediatric residency at New York Hospital in 1995, where she also served as a chief resident, and received the award for Excellence in Teaching and the Housestaff award. She was a practicing pediatrician until 2003 when she returned to Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center as the Medical Director for the General Pediatric Inpatient Unit. In July 2017, Dr. Osorio was appointed Director of Quality, Patient Safety, and Family Engagement, and in 2018, she was appointed Vice Chair for Quality and Patient Safety in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Osorio also holds a Master’s Degree in Translational and Clinical Research from Weill Cornell Medical College, where she also completed a Fellowship in Health Care Quality and Medical Informatics at the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy. She is a graduate of the Advanced Improvement Methods Course from the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Osorio on her achievement.
Faculty Profile Page: https://weillcornell.org/sosorio
VIVO Page: http://vivo.med.cornell.edu/display/cwid-snm2001