Barron Frazier, MD is an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics and emergency medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He completed a pediatric residency and a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. His work focuses on applying quality improvement science, clinical informatics and human-centered design to advance pediatric emergency care. He has additional training in Advanced Improvement Methods, Lean Six Sigma, and design thinking, and uses Model for Improvement methodology to drive measurable gains in quality, safety, and efficiency.

Dr. Frazier’s improvement work has reduced unnecessary imaging, improved documentation accuracy, increased timely sedation and analgesia,and standardized care processes across the pediatric emergency department. His projects include reducing chest radiographs in bronchiolitis, decreasing CT use for appendicitis, improving critical care and confidential documentation, accelerating post-intubation sedation and pain management and optimizing sedation-to-discharge workflows. He has also led the development of clinical decision support tools, care pathways and EHR-based interventions to improve reliability and reduce variation in care delivery.

He has a growing focus on clinical decision support, artificial intelligence–enabled workflows and real-time performance monitoring to support learning health system infrastructure and scalable innovation in emergency care.

Dr. Jacob Kaslow's research focuses on children who are technology dependent for respiratory support, including those with neuromuscular diseases and chronic respiratory failure. His primary interests are improving the care and quality of life in children who require mechanical ventilation through a tracheostomy. Dr. Kaslow is a founding member of a regional children's hospital collaboration to assess, develop and implement improved outpatient management of patients on mechanical ventilation. He also works to identify and promote alternative ways to improve the delivery of care to these patients and their families/caregivers.

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