Children’s of Alabama and the Kaul Pediatric Research Institute (KPRI) are pleased to announce the 2019 awards. The major goal of the KPRI quality and safety grant program is to allow teams to identify and address specific quality and safety issues that cannot easily be addressed using existing operational resources or structures.

This year, three grants were awarded. All funded applications are directed toward the improvement of child health care. Thank you to all who submitted applications! Congratulations to the following awardees.

Michael Seifert, M.D., Pediatric Nephrology - Reducing residual cardiac risk after pediatric kidney transplantation

Betsy Hopson, MSHA - QI project to improve bowel management in Spina Bifida Clinic

Avi Madan-Swain, Ph.D., Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, and Margaux Barnes, Ph.D., Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition - Improving family centered psychosocial screening