Lurie Children's Hospital Atlas Project

Kenneth Michelson, MD, MPH, is a practicing specialist in pediatric emergency medicine, treating ill and injured children in the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago emergency department. He is a national authority on pediatric emergency care performance, emergency department closures, and diagnostic error in the emergency department. Dr. Michelson’s work has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institutes of Health. His passion and goal is to improve emergency care system performance for children so that all children have access to outstanding emergency care for serious illness and injuries.

Andrew Skol, PhD, is a bioinformatics scientist with Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

John A. Graves, Ph.D. is professor of health policy and medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and professor of management at Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. His scholarly contributions focus on the development and use of economic and statistical methods to understand the impact of technological, regulatory and legislative changes on access to health services, health care spending and population health outcomes. Dr. Graves has more than two decades of experience at the intersection of research and policy, including serving from 2008-2010 as a principal economic modeler for the White House Office of Health Reform during the development of the Affordable Care Act. Since joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 2011, he has led large research projects focused on the design of health insurance, the returns to health care spending in the United States, and the health and budgetary impact of genetic screening in diverse health system populations. He currently directs the Vanderbilt Lifetime Insurance Simulation Model (VLIM), which aims to inform federal and state policymaking by estimating the long-term budgetary and health impact of improved upstream treatment and prevention. Dr. Graves holds a PhD from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Dr. Kate Remick is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine and EMS physician. She is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Surgery/Perioperative Medicine at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin where she also serves as Associate Chair for Quality, Innovation and Outreach in the Department of Pediatrics. In addition, she is Co-Director of the National EMS for Children Innovation and Improvement Center, Co-Director of the National Pediatric Readiness Project, Executive Director of the National Pediatric Readiness Quality Initiative, and Medical Director for San Marcos Hays County and North Hays County EMS Systems. Using quality improvement science as an underpinning of her work, Dr. Remick focuses on health systems research and implementation science to enhance healthcare outcomes for children. Dr. Remick has led numerous large-scale national quality improvement collaboratives that have engaged hundreds of frontline healthcare providers, hospitals, and EMS agencies across the United States and abroad. Her work transects policy development, survey design, advocacy, health system transformation, health services research, and the creation of data systems and registries to ensure system-level readiness and, ultimately, high-quality emergency care for children.

My career has been devoted to using computational science to make sense of complex biomedical data and translate it into insights that improve human health. Trained at the interface of molecular biology, engineering, and computation, I have developed practical, data-driven solutions ranging from methods to interpret high-throughput experiments and model biological pathways to frameworks that describe healthcare system dynamics and technologies that support clinical bioinformatics workflows. What unifies this work is a pragmatic approach: creating tools that not only advance science but can also be deployed in real-world healthcare and policy settings.

In my current role as Director of Bioinformatics at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, I apply this perspective to challenges in pediatric genomics and healthcare delivery. A key focus has been defining pediatric acute care regions using data-driven network methods. Pediatric patients are often served within systems designed for adults, which can obscure their true patterns of care. By applying network analysis to statewide utilization data, I have shown how pediatric-specific service and referral regions can be empirically derived, with important implications for benchmarking outcomes, resource allocation, and system design.

This work complements my broader efforts to integrate modern computational tools—including cloud-native workflows, machine learning, and large language models—into genomics and clinical research. By combining technical innovation with practical clinical insight, I aim to build frameworks that bridge data science and healthcare, ensuring that novel methods are rigorous, reproducible, and impactful in improving outcomes for children.

Naveen Singamsetty is a Data Architect with the Quantitative Science Pillar at Lurie Children’s. He brings extensive expertise in ETL and database technologies, MPP systems, CRM solutions, and reporting and business intelligence tools. Throughout his career, Naveen has designed and implemented innovative solutions for data integration, modernization, and application integration.
With a proven track record in architecting data solutions across diverse industries—including healthcare, banking, and higher education—he combines technical depth with strategic insight to deliver scalable and impactful outcomes.
Naveen holds a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cleveland State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Amrita School of Engineering, India.

Emily Bucholz, MD, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She specializes in pediatric cardiac imaging with a particular focus on fetal cardiology. Dr. Bucholz’s research centers on sociodemographic disparities in pediatric heart disease, development of pediatric quality measures, and advanced risk stratification models for children with congenital heart disease. She has led and contributed to numerous studies using large national registries and administrative claims datasets, and she collaborates extensively with networks such as the Pediatric Heart Network and the Fetal Heart Society. Within this grant, Dr. Bucholz brings expertise in outcomes measurement, hierarchical modeling, and interpretation of multicenter data, ensuring rigorous evaluation and meaningful translation of findings into improved care for children with serious illness.

Danielle Cory, MENG, CCRC, is a Clinical Research Coordinator at Lurie Children’s Hospital in the division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Danielle has led clinical studies, coordinated IRB-regulated research involving pediatric patients, and contributed to national presentations and peer-reviewed publications. With expertise spanning quality improvement, research regulatory practices, and multidisciplinary team leadership, she is dedicated to advancing pediatric care through research, mentorship, and process innovation in healthcare settings.