Dr. Holodniy is Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine) at Stanford University and has been a full time employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for over 25 years. He has been national director of Public Health Surveillance and Research (PHSR) in VA since 1999, which is a national program office based at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS). His current VA responsibilities include public health surveillance, conducting outbreak and large-scale lookback investigations within VA, and directing the VA Public Health Reference Laboratory (PHRL). PHRL is a national VA laboratory, aligned with CDC and the Laboratory Response Network (LRN), which supports clinical care and public health investigations utilizing state-of-the-art diagnostic microbiology methods and equipment. He also serves as the hospital epidemiologist and staff infectious disease physician for the VAPAHCS. Previously, he directed pharmacy services at the VAPAHCS from 1996-1999, the HIV clinical program at VAPAHCS from 1991-2011, and was the acting director of the VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center at VAPAHCS from 2007-2009, where he oversaw a portfolio of several multicenter VA studies and the VA DNA Bank Genomics Program.

His research program focuses on viral evolution, microbial development of drug resistance, clinical trial evaluation of novel diagnostics and antimicrobial compounds, and evaluation of clinical outcomes associated with infectious diseases. In that capacity, Dr. Holodniy has overseen the conduct of over 80 clinical and diagnostic assay trials at VAPAHCS since 1991. He has also mentored many infectious disease fellows, graduate students, and Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officers, in collaboration with CDC.

Paul graduated from Columbia University Medical School in New York, completed residency and chief residency in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, received a Masters of Public Health from University of California, Berkeley and completed a fellowship in health services research at Stanford University.

Paul is presently a Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University, a pediatric hospitalist, and is the creator and Medical Director of the LPCH Center for Quality and Clinical Effectiveness and Chief Clinical Patient Safety Officer at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Paul is presently the Director of Quality Improvement for the California Perinatal Quality of Care Collaborative (CPQCC), is a founding and current member of the Solutions for Patient Safety Clinical Steering Committee, and is on the Strategic Planning Committee for Quality and Patient Safety for CHA (Children’s Hospital Association). In 2013, Paul was awarded the inaugural Paul V. Miles Fellow in Quality Improvement from the American Board of Pediatrics, an Award bestowed on individuals who have “dedicated themselves to quality improvement and demonstrated accomplishments leading to better healthcare for children”. Paul is presently an investigator or co-investigator on numerous grants focused on pediatric patient safety. Most recently, Paul has dedicated his research and administrative efforts to translating the tenets of high reliability organization theory into healthcare, and is partnering with human factors engineers to translate “design thinking” into the healthcare industry to accelerate patient safety and quality improvement. Paul has given a substantial number of presentations at national and international academic meetings related to quality of care and patient safety and is a faculty member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Paul has been a visiting professor on quality/patient safety at numerous children’s hospitals across the world including Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, The Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto, The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, and several national children’s hospitals including, Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of Columbia University, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Children’s Hospital of Colorado, St Louis Children’s Hospital, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Paul has published extensively on the topics of pediatric quality of care and patient safety, including a Nov 2007 study correlating a Rapid Response Team intervention with decreased mortality in JAMA, and a Nov 2010 study on adverse events over time in the New England Journal of Medicine, and is recognized internationally as a thought leader in the area of pediatric quality and patient safety.

Seema Jayachandran is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and Stanford Center for International Development (SCID).

Her research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries, including health, education, labor markets, and political economy. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review ("Odious Debt," on sovereign debt incurred by dictators), Journal of Political Economy ("Selling Labor Low," on labor market risk in India), and the Quarterly Journal of Economics ("Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments," on increased education caused by declines in maternal mortality in Sri Lanka), and other journals. Her current projects are based in India, Nepal, and Zimbabwe.

She also works on social issues in the United States. Previously she was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley. She also worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in San Francisco. She earned a PhD and master's degree from Harvard University, a master's degree from the University of Oxford where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor's degree from MIT.