Meet our Coaches – Spotlight on Kathy Bradford

Kathy Bradford, MD is a Pediatric Hospitalist with over 20 years of clinical and administrative experience with a specific interest and expertise in quality improvement and safety. She is currently serving as an inpatient medical director at UNC Children’s Hospital where she is able to focus on the delivery of efficient, high-quality care of children including those with complex and chronic health diseases. Dr. Bradford is the previous director of the University of North Carolina Newborn Nursery and was instrumental in the hospital’s achievement of Baby-Friendly certification. She has specific interest in Baby-Friendly care, patient outcomes, coordination and communication of care, the hospital admission and discharge process, patient satisfaction, and patient safety. Her quality improvement training includes completion of the Cincinnati Children’s Advanced Improvement Methods year long course in 2012 and Yellow and Blue and Belt Six Sigma training and LEAN training. She is a member of the University of North Carolina Institute for Quality Improvement. Her prior quality improvement work and publications in the inpatient setting demonstrates her interest and ability to contribute and complete projects that focus on quality and safety improvements. Dr. Bradford received her medical degree from the Pennsylvania State University and completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and a fellowship in critical care at Stanford University. She began her career as a pediatric intensivist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Following that Dr. Bradford was a pediatric hospitalist, pediatric intensivist and the Associate Residency Director at the Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine/A. I. DuPont Hospital for Children. Dr. Bradford joined the UNC Chapel Hill Department of Pediatrics in 2004 and is currently a Professor of Pediatrics.