Dr. Rajbhandari is a pediatric hospitalist at Akron Children’s Hospital. She is also the hospital’s division lead for quality improvement activities and the site lead for PRIS (Pediatric Research in Inpatient Setting) and HVPAA (High Value Pediatric Practice Alliance). She’s been practicing since 2011 and with Akron Children’s since 2016. She earned her medical degree from Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal and completed a residency is pediatrics at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in the Bronx, N.Y. She went on to complete a fellowship in pediatric hospital medicine at Cleveland Clinic Children’s in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Rajbhandari has a special interest in high value care, care of culturally and linguistically diverse patients, improvement science and quality improvement activities. She is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Pediatric Hospital Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a member of the AAP’s Section of Hospital Medicine and Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. Dr. Rajbhandari is also a member of the Academic Pediatric Association and is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Northeast Ohio Medical University. She is fluent in English, Nepali, Hindi and Malayalam.