Position Available: 2028–2030 cycle (starting July 2028)

Clinical Call Required?: Yes

Clinical Call Requirements: 5x/month

Program Length: 2 years

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Program Director: Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, MSHS, FACS, FAAP
Associate Professor of Surgery (Clinical Scholar) and Population and Public Health Sciences

Website: https://www.westernpedsurg.com
Source of Support: Institutional Grants, NIH Grants, WPSRC

Program Description: This position is a Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium (WPSRC) Research Scholar fellowship hosted at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The WPSRC is a multi-institutional surgical collaborative of 10 freestanding children’s hospitals across the Western United States, established in 2017 to advance the science and practice of pediatric surgery through high-quality, evidence-based collaborative research. The Consortium leverages the combined expertise and clinical volume of its member institutions to conduct studies of surgical problems and diseases that would not be feasible at a single site, with the goal of advancing best practice, improving quality, and decreasing cost burden. The Research Scholar leads and contributes to multi-institutional WPSRC studies using data drawn from across member sites and participates in the Consortium’s collaborative research infrastructure, including protocol development, multi-site coordination, and dissemination through WPSRC publications and presentations. Additional work will include participation in the Health Outcomes and Policy Effects (HOPE) Lab at CHLA, which works with several large administrative and clinical datasets, as well as CHLA clinical projects exploring opioid use in infants, children, and adolescents in collaboration with the Institute for Addiction Science at the University of Southern California (USC). Fellows commit two years to this research program and obtain either a Certificate or Master’s in Clinical, Biomedical, and Translational Investigations in order to maximize productivity. Clinical opportunities include multi-disciplinary conference attendance as well as call on the pediatric surgical service.

Big thank you to the team at Children’s Los Angels for hosting the WPSRC Fall 2024 Meeting!

The M. Judah Folkman Memorial Award at the 2026 American Pediatric Surgical Association Annual Meeting to Anastasia M. Kahan for NO-DISCHARGE-ANTIBIOTICS AFTER COMPLICATED APPENDICITIS: A WESTERN PEDIATRIC SURGERY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM PERSPECTIVE STUDY.