Lloyd N. Werk, MD

Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics

Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida 6535 Nemours Parkway Orlando, FL 32827

Biography

Lloyd Werk, MD, MPH, Associate Chief, Quality & Patient Safety and Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics at Nemours Children's Hospital, FL works in the Nemours Department of Quality and Safety developing systems and measures to help clinicians reach institutional goals in quality and health outcomes as well as directs the Nemours portfolio of Maintenance of Certification projects, chairs the Quality and Patient Safety Committee, chairs the Quality Review Committee, and co-leads the Nemours Quality Champions program. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Lloyd Werk earned his medical degree from Tel Aviv University and his master's in public health from Boston University in Massachusetts. He began his career as a general pediatrician in a primary care practice in Commack, New York and then completed his fellowship in general academic pediatrics at Boston University. He has been with Nemours Children's Health since 1999. He has authored and contributed to several manuscripts, presentations, and abstracts related to how patient care delivery can be improved, as well as efforts to promote healthy lifestyle changes. In the Department of Pediatrics, he works with faculty to promote their development and chairs the NCH, FL Appointment and Promotions Committee. He mentors young investigator research and lectures on quality and safety among other topics.

Fellowship

  • Pediatrics - Boston Medical Center, 1999

Internship

  • Pediatrics - Children's Hospital of Buffalo, 1988

Residency

  • Pediatrics - Children's Hospital of Buffalo, 1990

Education

  • MD - Sackler School of Medicine, 1987

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics/General Pediatrics

  • Childhood Obesity
  • Faculty Affairs
  • Health Services Research
  • Medical Decision Making
  • Patient Safety
  • Quality Improvement

  • Patient-Reported Outcomes to Describe Global Health and Family Relationships in Pediatric Weight Management; Childhood Obesity; (2024).

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  • Characteristics Associated With Positive Social Determinants of Health Screening in Patients Admitted to Pediatric Hospital Medicine.; Hospital pediatrics; (2024).

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  • Clinical Findings in Adolescents Hospitalized With EVALI; Novel Report on Coagulopathy; Hospital Pediatrics; (2022).

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  • Testing the Use of Data Drawn from the Electronic Health Record to Compare Quality; Pediatric Quality & Safety; (2021).

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  • Quality Improvement Project to Promote Identification and Treatment of Children With Obesity Admitted to Hospital; American Journal of Medical Quality; (2020).

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  • Impact of a Personalized Audit and Feedback Intervention on Antibiotic Prescribing Practices for Outpatient Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia; Clinical Pediatrics; (2020).

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  • Evaluation of “Healthy Way to Grow”: An Obesity Prevention Program in Early Care and Education Centers; Early Childhood Education Journal; (2020).

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  • Feasibility of pediatric obesity and prediabetes treatment support through Tess, the AI behavioral coaching chatbot; Translational Behavioral Medicine; (2019).

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  • Use of EHR-Based Pediatric Quality Measures: Views of Health System Leaders and Parents; American Journal of Medical Quality; (2019).

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  • Provider-Focused Intervention to Promote Comprehensive Screening for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis by Primary Care Pediatricians; American Journal of Medical Quality; (2019).

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  • Integrating childhood obesity resources into the patient-centered medical home: Provider perspectives in the United States; Journal of Child Health Care; (2019).

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  • Electronic Gaming Characteristics Associated with Class 3 Severe Obesity in Youth Who Attend the Pediatric Weight Management Programs of the COMPASS Network; Childhood Obesity; (2019).

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  • Promoting Adherence to Influenza Vaccination Recommendations in Pediatric Practice; Journal of Primary Care & Community Health; (2019).

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  • Pet visitation: A study of hospital volunteer motivations; Unknown Source; (2018).

  • Feasibility of Using a Commercial Fitness Tracker as an Adjunct to Family-Based Weight Management Treatment: Pilot Randomized Trial; JMIR mHealth and uHealth; (2018).

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  • A Provider-Focused Intervention to Promote Optimal Care of Pediatric Patients With Suspected Elbow Fracture; Pediatric Emergency Care; (2018).

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  • Problem Video Gaming among Children Enrolled in Tertiary Weight Management Programs; Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking; (2017).

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  • Electronic health record as a research tool: Frequency of exposure to targeted clinical problems and health care providers? clinical proficiency; Journal of Biomedical Informatics; (2017).

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  • Impact of Personalized Audit and Feedback on Management of Pediatric Outpatient Community-Acquired Pneumonia; Open Forum Infectious Diseases; (2017).

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  • Identifying variables associated with physicians clinical cognitive knowledge decay; Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) ; (2016).

  • Relationship between abdominal adiposity and exercise tolerance in children with obesity; Pediatric Physical Therapy; (2016).

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  • Structured Development of Interventions to Improve Physician Knowledge Retention; Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) ; (2015).

  • Reliability of Common Lower Extremity Biomechanical Measures of Children with and Without Obesity; Pediatric Physical Therapy; (2015).

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  • Quarterly visits with glycated hemoglobin monitoring: The sweet spot for glycemic control in youth with type 1 diabetes; Diabetes Care; (2014).

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  • Parent Perceptions to Promote a Healthier Lifestyle for Their Obese Child; Social Work in Health Care; (2011).

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  • A Win-Win Scenario: Using the Electronic Health Record to Facilitate Quality Improvement and Achieve Physician Maintenance of Certification; Journal of Healthcare Information Management ; (2011).

  • 5-2-1-almost none: parents' perceptions of changing health-related behaviors in their obese child.; The Permanente journal; (2009).

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  • Association between practice patterns and body mass index percentile in infants and young children with cystic fibrosis; Journal of Cystic Fibrosis; (2008).

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  • Flexible interlocked nailing of pediatric femoral fractures: Experience with a new flexible interlocking intramedullary nail compared with other fixation procedures; Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics; (2008).

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  • Comparing the effectiveness of modified forearm and conventional minidose intravenous regional anesthesia for reduction of distal forearm fractures in children; Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics; (2008).

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  • Evaluation of blood lead proficiency testing: comparison of open and blind paradigms.; Clinical chemistry; (2001).

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  • Beliefs about diagnosing asthma in young children; Pediatrics; (2000).

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  • Medicine for the millennium: Demystifying EBM; Contemporary Pediatrics; (1999).

  • Solid feeding guidelines; Lancet; (1998).

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  • Practical considerations when treating children with antimicrobials in the outpatient setting; Drugs; (1998).

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