Charlotte Woods-Hill, MD, MSHP

Dr. Woods-Hill graduated summa cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Miami with a double major in biology and religious studies, before attending the University of South Florida College of Medicine. There, she was valedictorian and a member of AOA and the Gold Humanism in Medicine Society. She completed residency training in general pediatrics at Harvard University/Boston University’s Boston Combined Residency Program in 2013 and was awarded the medical student teaching award from the Harvard medical school pediatric clerkship, and was chosen to give the senior resident commencement address. After fellowship training in pediatric critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, including specialized certification from the Armstrong Patient Safety Institute’s Analytics Leadership in Patient Safety program, she joined the pediatric critical care medicine faculty at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2016. She is the division’s physician lead for sepsis quality improvement work, as well as the physician lead for harm prevention stemming from central-line associated bloodstream infections. Her broad areas of interest are the intersection between hospital operations and clinician decision making as it relates to preventable pediatric patient harm and pediatric patient safety.  Her work on diagnostic stewardship in the pediatric ICU, specifically related to the use of blood cultures, was published in JAMA Pediatrics and is the foundation of ongoing multi-center implementation and quality improvement innovations.