Raj Srivastava, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Pediatrics (Tenured) at the University of Utah in the Division of Inpatient Medicine, where he has worked since 2001. He is a practicing hospitalist at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City and is currently employed by Intermountain Healthcare as the Senior Medical Executive Director of the Healthcare Delivery Institute, a center for education, implementation science, and quality improvement. Within the HDI, Dr. Srivastava leads Intermountain Healthcare's implementation science core and is responsible for the evaluation of evidence-based implementation of clinical best practices within the acute and ambulatory settings for both adult and pediatric care. Dr. Srivastava also oversees the Advanced Training Program in Clinical Quality Improvement, an in-depth course designed for healthcare professionals who need to implement and investigate quality improvement, outcome measurement, and management of clinical processes within healthcare systems.
Dr. Srivastava attended the University of Toronto Medical School and trained at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto where he was an Associate Chief Resident. He then went on to complete a Fellowship in Health Services Research at Children's Hospital, Boston, Harvard Medical School where much of his work was studying the impact of pediatric hospital systems.
In Utah, Dr. Srivastava helped start a pilot hospitalist program, served as Medical Director of a Medical-Surgical Unit, and at the national level, is the past Chair of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) network.