Dr. Paul Sharek, pediatric quality and patient safety consultant

Driving Measurable Improvement in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety

For over 25 years, I have partnered with board members, executive leaders and healthcare teams to solve their most complex quality and safety challenges. As a pediatric hospitalist and former executive at Seattle Children’s and Stanford Children’s Health, my career has been dedicated to one mission: translating the science of improvement and high reliability theory into quantifiably saving lives and improving quality and safety outcomes.

Now, as an independent consultant, I work with healthcare organizations to build enduring systems for excellence. My passion is helping leaders move from theory to practice, creating pragmatic, sustainable programs to improve outcomes and foster a true culture of quality and safety for both patients and staff.

"Paul Sharek is the gold standard for pediatric Quality and Patient Safety consulting. His strategic assessment of our program was thorough, candid, and extraordinarily actionable. If you are leading a hospital that is serious about achieving world-class Quality outcomes, Paul is the partner you want.”

— Jamie Phillips, MHA, FACHE
President, Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

How We Can Help Your Organization

Implement evidence-based frameworks and evolve cultures to dramatically reduce preventable harm and improve clinical outcomes, contributing to top-tier national recognition like the US News and World Report Children’s Hospital Honor Roll.

Achieve High-Reliability
Outcomes

Develop and execute comprehensive quality and safety strategies that align with your organization's goals, as I did while launching the Centers for Quality and Patient Safety at both Seattle Children’s and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford.

Design & Implement
Strategic Plans

Create the infrastructure, and identify and cultivate the leadership, for pioneering quality and safety programs, drawing on my experience as the inaugural Chief Quality and Safety Officer at Seattle Children's and Chief Patient Safety Officer at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford.

Build & Lead a Comprehensive
Coordinated Quality System

Establish & Foster
Cultures of Continuous
Quality & Safety

Identify leaders and integrate best practices to establish and grow a thriving quality and safety culture.

Cultivate Quality
& Safety Leaders

Mentor the next generation of quality leaders and empower frontline staff, leveraging my work with national and international bodies like the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the International Society for Quality in Healthcare, and the Children’s Hospital Association.