Charlotte Z. Woods-Hill, MD

Dr. Woods-Hill graduated from the University of Miami with a double major in biology and religious studies, before attending the University of South Florida College of Medicine. She completed residency training in general pediatrics at Harvard University/Boston University’s Boston Combined Residency Program in 2013. After fellowship training in pediatric critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, including specialized certification from the Armstrong Patient Safety Institute’s Analytics Leadership in Patient Safety program, she joined the pediatric critical care medicine faculty at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2016. She is a leader in critical care sepsis quality improvement, working to improve sepsis recognition and standardize treatment algorithms through a combination of EMR-based alerts and multidisciplinary bedside huddles.

As the division’s physician champion for central-line associated bloodstream infection harm prevention, Dr. Woods-Hill is working to develop and pilot a predictive model to better identify high-risk patients and reduce infection rates. She is a co-investigator and site principal investigator on the AHRQ-funded Bright STAR Collaborative, a multicenter investigation into the impact of diagnostic stewardship for bloodstream infections in the PICU on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance. Currently she is enrolled in the Masters of Science in Health Policy program at the University of Pennsylvania supported by an NIH T32 training grant, as well as an associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, where her focus is on translating health policy and health systems-based investigations into reductions in preventable patient harm in the critical care setting. 

Attending Physician

2016, Johns Hopkins Hospital High Value Research Symposium, 2nd place Best Trainee Abstract - Improving Blood Culture Utilization in Critically Ill Children, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Children's Center, Baltimore, MD

2013, Medical Student Teaching Award, Harvard Medical School Pediatric Clerkship



2013, Senior Resident Address, Boston Combined Residency Program graduation



2010,  Dean’s Award for Excellence, USF College of Medicine Valedictorian



2010,  Department of Pediatrics Award, USF College of Medicine



2010,  Christopher P. Phelps Award for Excellence in Anatomy



2010, Award for Excellence in Medical Neuroscience



2010,  Outstanding Student in Principles of Medical Immunology and Infectious Disease



2010, Outstanding Student in Molecular Medicine



2010, Award for Excellence in Pharmacology



2009,  Alpha Omega Alpha honor society



2009, Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Society



2009, Don L. Smith Charter Class Scholarship, USF College of Medicine



2009, 2008, 2007, USF College of Medicine Merit Scholarship



2006, Theta Alpha Kappa Award for Outstanding Achievement in Department of Religious Studies, University of Miami 



2006, Best Senior Thesis, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Miami



2005, Phi Beta Kappa honor society, University of Miami



2005, Gamma Sigma Alpha National Greek Honor Society; Gamma Sigma Alpha Award, Highest New Member Scholarship

Academic and Institutional Committees

2016-present, PICU/PCU Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Committee, Department of Critical Care Medicine

2016-present, PICU Sepsis Quality Improvement

2016-present, Critical Care Physician Lead, Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections Committee