Tamara D. Simon, MD, MSPH

Tamara D. Simon, MD, MSPH graduated from Colgate University in 1994, served in the US Peace Corps in Ghana from 1994 to 1996, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 2001 (go Tarheels!). She completed a pediatrics residency in 2004, followed by a master’s degree and research fellowship in 2006, at the University of Colorado/ Children’s Hospital Denver. She spent her first four years as faculty at the University of Utah/ Primary Children’s Medical Center. During this time she obtained a career development award from the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke focused on conduct of multi-center studies of cerebrospinal fluid shunt infections. She has been an active investigator in both the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network since 2007 and Pediatic Research in Inpatient Settings Executive Council since 2009. She has also served as the Hospital Medicine Special Interest Group co-chair for the Academic Pediatric Association since 2009. She has served as a planning committee member on the 2011 Pediatric Hospital Medicine meeting and is co-chair of the 2012 Pediatric Hospital Medicine meeting. In July 2010, she moved to her current position as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Washington/ Seattle Children’s Hospital. In addition to her work on CSF shunt infections, her academic focus is on improving the quality of evidence in the inpatient care we provide to pediatric medical and surgical patients, in particular, the vulnerable child with medically complexity.