NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE : DEVELOPMENT AND EARLY YEARS From the Joint Council on Congenital Heart Disease Quality Improvement Taskforce

Jeffrey B. Anderson, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Srikant Iyer, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Robert H. Beekman, III, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Kathy J. Jenkins, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA Thomas S. Klitzner, MD-PhD, Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA John D. Kugler, MD, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha, NE Gerard R. Martin, MD, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC Steven R. Neish, MD, University of Texas Health Center, San Antonio, TX Geoffrey L. Rosenthal, MD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD Carole Lannon, MD, MPH, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH