The Department of Pediatrics has presented its Award for Clinical Excellence (Yale Peds ACE) for January to Alexis Luz Rodriguez, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics. The award recognizes exemplary clinicians who go above and beyond for patients, deliver the highest quality of care and personify healing, innovation, and collaboration.
Rodriguez’s interests include well newborn and special care nursery care, breastfeeding medicine, outpatient follow up for infants and toddlers with complex medical problems, quality improvement work and optimizing electronic medical record use for physicians. The award citation describes her as “an exceptionally talented pediatric hospitalist whose career reflects sustained clinical excellence, innovation, and leadership across multiple care settings.”