Kaileen Jafari, MD

Kaileen Jafari, MD, is an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She is a health services researcher focused on improving the quality of pediatric emergency care.

Dr. Jafari’s work examines structural and systems-level factors that drive variation in care, with a particular emphasis on reducing diagnostic errors and improving the timely, accurate identification of serious infections in children. She serves as a site co-investigator for the Seattle–Texas–Los Angeles node of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.

She earned her medical degree from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, completed residency at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at Columbia University, and completed fellowship training at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital. She is a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow.