Pranavi Sreeramoju – The Chief of Infection Prevention at Parkland Health & Hospital System
The Chief of Infection Prevention at Parkland Health & Hospital System, Pranavi Sreeramoju, MD, has been named one of the “50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety” in the United States by the prestigious healthcare industry publication Becker’s Hospital Review.
Individuals selected for the honor are “advocates, professors, researchers, administrators and healthcare providers who have won awards, published articles, spoken out and led initiatives to reduce patient harm and ensure safety,” Becker’s editorial team said. This year marks the third running of the list.
Dr. Sreeramoju chairs the infection prevention and control committee at Parkland and also is Associate Professor in Medicine–Infectious Diseases at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She is responsible for leading system-wide quality, safety and process improvement efforts related to healthcare-associated infections and advancing scholarly activities in healthcare epidemiology.
“I am honored and humbled to be named to this list that includes many esteemed leaders in the field of patient safety,” Dr. Sreeramoju said. “It is also a tribute to the efforts and dedication of the entire team at Parkland that is achieving significant quality improvement results in our efforts to enhance patient safety.”
Among Dr. Sreeramoju’s key accomplishments during her six-year tenure at Parkland have been enhancement of infection prevention processes including hand hygiene, implementation of mandatory influenza vaccination program for healthcare personnel that placed Parkland in the National Honor Roll for Patient Safety; enhancement of data infrastructures; and establishment of training programs in healthcare epidemiology. Dr. Sreeramoju is currently leading a major four-year initiative at Parkland funded by the state’s 1115 Waiver program, known as RITE (‘Reduce Infections Together in Everyone’), designed to reduce healthcare associated infections and reduce sepsis mortality.
A graduate of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India, Dr. Sreeramoju also trained at Tulane University School of Public Health in epidemiology. She completed internal medicine residency at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, and Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, CA; and infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Chicago.
