Christopher P. Bonafide, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Core Faculty, Clinical Futures, a Center of Emphasis, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute
Associate Member, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Core Faculty, Section of Clinical Informatics, Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Director, Pediatric Hospital Epidemiology and Outcomes Research Training (PHEOT) T32 Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Core Faculty, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Research Director, Section of Hospital Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director of Pediatric Implementation Research, Implementation Science Center, University of Pennsylvania
Associate Chief for Research Integration and Implementation, Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Director for Implementation Science, Clinical Futures, a Center of Emphasis, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3500 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3500 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Publications
Education:
BA (Psychology)
Colby College, 2000.
MD
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 2004.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
Permanent linkBA (Psychology)
Colby College, 2000.
MD
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 2004.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
Description of Research Expertise
I am an implementation scientist focused on the pediatric hospital setting, with a particular interest in deimplementing overused and ineffective practices.Specific areas of focus include:
-Bronchiolitis and other lung diseases in children
-Patient Safety
-Clinical Communication
-Human Factors Engineering
-Physiologic Monitoring Systems
-Alarm and Alert Fatigue
Description of Clinical Expertise
Pediatric hospital medicineDescription of Other Expertise
Clinical informaticsSelected Publications
Vasthare Shapiro A, Londoño Gentile T, Dickens H, Bonafide CP, Fieldston E.: Care Team Assistants as a Strategy to Reduce Physicians' Administrative Task Burden. Hosp Pediatr 15: e143-e147, Apr 2025.Warniment A, Hall M, Berry JG, Korn E, Griego E, Lu E, Steuart R, Bonafide C, Simon T, Tarchichi T, Shah SS, Thomson J.: Effects of airway clearance in hospitalized children with neurologic impairment. J Hosp Med Page: DOI: 10.1002/jhm.13543, March 2025 Notes: epub ahead of print.
Ruppel H, Luo B, Rasooly IR, McNamara M, McLoone M, Kern-Goldberger A, Ferro DF, Albanowski K, Brent C, Cieplinski JA, Irizarry J, Rottenberg S, Hehir D, Stinson HR, Makeneni S, Hamershock RA, Won J, Bonafide CP: A systems engineering approach to alarm management on pediatric medical-surgical units. J Hosp Med 20(1): 98-103, Jan 2025.
Corson CL, Nembhard IM, Bonafide CP, Foglia EE, Lee HC, Handley SC: Acceptance and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Delivery Room Resuscitation: A Qualitative Study. SSM Qual Res Health Page: In Press, 2025.
Lawson GM, Foglia EE, Lee S, Worsley D, Martin A, Szyld E, DeShea L, Brent C, Bonafide CP.: Implementation mapping to plan for the Supraglottic Airway for Resuscitation (SUGAR) trial. Implement Sci Commun 5(1): 132, November 2024.
Handley SC, Nembhard IM, Corson CL, Passarella M, Cecarelli C, Lee HC, Cohen J, Chuo J, Tioseco J, Bonafide CP, Foglia EE: Development and testing of a resuscitation-specific measure of organizational culture for resuscitation teams. Resuscitation Plus 20(4): 100796, October 2024.
Coon ER, Greene T, Fritz J, Desai AD, Ray KN, Hersh AL, Bardsley T, Bonafide CP, Brady PW, Wallace SS, Schroeder AR, on behalf of FAAN-C Trial Group: A Multicenter Randomized Trial to Compare Automatic vs. As-Needed Follow-up for Children Hospitalized with Common Infections: the FAAN-C Trial Protocol Journal of Hospital Medicine 19(10): 977-987, October 2024.
Murphy K, Weisman Q, Makeneni S, Faerber J, Bonafide CP, Kenyon CC: Characteristics of Pediatric Scurvy Hospitalizations: 2006-2021. Pediatrics 154(4): e2024065782, October 2024.
Finkel E, Sah E, Spaulding M, Herrington JD, Tomczuk L, Masino A, Pang X, Bhattacharya A, Hedley D, Kushleyeva Y, Thomson P, Doppelt N, Tan J, Pennington J, Dissanayake C, Bonafide, Nuske HJ: Physiological and communicative emotional disconcordance in children on the autism spectrum. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 16(51): 51, September 2024.
Kern-Goldberger AS, Bracy D, Szymczak JE, Gonzalez D, Rothberg MB, Gerber JS, Bonafide CP: Drivers of Inpatient Subspecialty Consultation Among Pediatric Hospitalists: A Qualitative Study. Hospital Pediatrics 14(9): 782-789, September 2024.