Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School; USA

Daniel Kelly, MD, MHQS, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, a pediatric
critical care physician and a transfusion medicine specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston,
Massachusetts. He serves as Director of Quality and Patient Safety for the Division of Medical Critical
Care and as Associate Medical Director for Quality and Outcomes for the Department of Pediatrics at
Boston Children’s Hospital, where he leads hospital-wide quality strategy, clinical measurement
infrastructure, and interdisciplinary safety initiatives.

Dr. Kelly is the director of the Department of Pediatrics Clinical Pathways Program at Boston Children’s
Hospital, which integrates rigorous outcome, process, and balancing measures into evidence-based
clinical pathways spanning inpatient and ambulatory-linked care. His improvement work has produced
sustained reductions in hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism through EHR-embedded
thromboprophylaxis systems, nationally disseminated antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship
programs through the AHRQ-sponsored Bright STAR 2.0 Collaborative, and significant reductions in
medication reconciliation errors across critical care environments.

He is a graduate of the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and holds a Master of Healthcare
Quality and Safety from Harvard Medical School and currently serves as Course Director for the HMS
Master’s Program. Dr. Kelly has authored numerous peer-reviewed QI and clinical outcomes
publications and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for multiple medical journals. His work is grounded in
systems reliability, clinical standardization, health equity, and workforce development in pediatric
quality and safety.