Dr. Alaina Kipps

Biography

Alaina Kipps is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, with a focus on Cardiology. She completed her medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 2003 and her residency in general pediatrics at Stanford. Following this, she specialized with a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital, which she completed in 2009. Dr. Kipps has been a faculty member since 2012, having returned to Stanford after serving at the University of California, San Francisco. She was the medical director of the Acute Care Cardiology unit from 2013 to 2021 and has focused on quality improvement initiatives at the ACCU Heart Center. She co-founded the Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Collaborative (PAC³) in 2014, which now comprises over 50 centers and maintains a large registry of encounters. Dr. Kipps has a strong interest in teaching and mentoring residents and serves as a co-director for a scholarly concentration on Quality Improvement. She has a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, obtained in 2016, enhancing her expertise in clinical effectiveness and quality improvement science.

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