Kathleen E. Walsh, MD, MSc is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University
of Massachusetts Medical School. Her primary research interests include the assessment
and prevention of medication errors among children with chronic conditions, the use of
information technology to prevent pediatric medication errors, and the effect of race and
ethnicity on error rates. She is currently working on a study to improve medication
safety among children with cancer. She is also assessing the potential for computerized
physician order entry to reduce errors in hospitalized children. Dr. Walsh is a graduate
of the Georgetown Medical School and completed her residency training at Brown
University. After residency, she completed a fellowship in general academic pediatrics
and earned a Master of Science in Epidemiology at Boston University.
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Medication Errors in the Home: A Multisite Study of Children with Cancer (with Douglas W. Roblin, Saul N. Weingart, Kathleen E. Houlahan, Barbara Degar, Amy Billett, Christopher P. Keuker, Colleen Biggins, Justin Li, Karen Wasilewski, and Kathleen M. Mazor), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2012)
