Sara Toomey is Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Managing Director of the Center of Excellence for Pediatric Quality Measurement and is the physician lead for all patient experience efforts at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is an academic general pediatrician and health services researcher. She conducts research that aims to measure the quality of pediatric care, demonstrate the association between quality measures and healthcare outcomes, and develop interventions to improve outcomes. Among her accomplishments, she is one of the lead developers of the Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems Survey, known as Child HCAHPS. She received her BA from Holy Cross, MPhil in Social Anthropology and MSc in Comparative Social Policy from Oxford University, MD and MPH from Harvard, and was a fellow in the Harvard-wide Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship.