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  • Komal Bajaj, M.D.

Komal Bajaj, M.D.

Komal Bajaj

Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health

Area of Research: healthcare quality, medical simulation, healthcare equity & reproductive genetics.

Contact Information

718.918.6300komal.bajaj@nychhc.org

Jacobi Medical Center
1400 Pelham Parkway South
Building 1, Room BS16
Bronx, NY 10461

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Dr. Komal Bajaj is an innovator, catalyst, and advocate in the Bronx.  She is Chief Quality Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and Clinical Director for NYC Health + Hospital's Simulation Center


Selected Publications

Healthcare Quality & Simulation

Cooper M, Papanagnou D, Meguerdichian M, Bajaj K.  Emergency Obstetrics for the Emergency Medicine Provider. MedEdPORTAL Publications. 2016. 12:10481

Nadir NA, Bentley S, Papanagnou D, Bajaj K et al. "Characteristics of Real-Time, Non-Critical Incident Debriefing Practices in the Emergency Department." Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 18.1 (2017): 146.

Meguerdichian M., Bajaj K, Pohlman J., D'Orazio V., Walker K., & Birnbaum A. (2017). Novel combination of simulation and Lean methodology to improve operating room turnover. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning, 3(2), 75-76.

Bajaj K, Meguerdichian M., Thoma B., Huang S., Eppich W., Cheng A. (2018). The PEARLS healthcare debriefing tool. Academic Medicine, 93(2), 336.

Bajaj K, Minors A, Walker K, Meguerdichian M, Patterson M. “No-go considerations” for in situ  simulation safety. Simulation in Healthcare. 2018 Jun 1;13(3):221-4.

Fraser K, Meguerdichian M, Haws J, Grant V, Bajaj K, Cheng A. Cognitive Load Theory for debriefing simulations: implications for faculty development. Advances in Simulation (2018) 3:28. 

Meguerdichian, Michael, Bajaj K,….Ahmed R. "Simulation Fellowships: Survey of Current Summative Assessment Practices." Simulation in Healthcare 14.5 (2019): 300-306.

 

Trejo FE, Igel C, Chuang M, Bajaj K, Bernstein PS. Checklists, huddles, and debriefs: Critical tools to  improve team performance in obstetrics.  Clin Obstet Gynecol (2019): 62(3), 518-527

 

Brazil V, Purdy E, Bajaj K.  Connecting simulation and quality Improvement – how can healthcare simulation really improve patient care. Editorial.  BMJ Quality & Safety  (2019): 862-865.

 

Cheng A, Eppich W, Kolbe M, Meguerdichian M, Bajaj K, Grant V. A conceptual framework for the     development of debriefing skills – a journey of discovery, growth, and maturity.  Simulation in Healthcare. (2020);15(1), 55-60

 

Dube M, Kessler D, Huang L, Petrosoniak, Bajaj, K. Considerations for psychological safety with system-focused debriefings.  BMJ STEL. (2020); 6:132-134.

 

Sydney E, Zinaman M, Kishore P, Esannason A, Ferrante D, Shahan K, Bajaj. K. Preparing Occupational Health Services for Pandemic: Lessons From the Bronx. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. in press

 

Vinoya-Chung CR, Jalon HS, Cho HJ, Bajaj K, Fleischman J, Ickowicz M, Nassis E, Wei LS, Kaufman D, Xavier G, Luong K, DeOcampo M, Conley G, Edwards D, Wei EK.  Picking Up the Pieces: Healthcare Quality in a Post-COVID-19 World. Health security 2020. 

 

A tool to promote psychological safety during and after COVID19:  http://www.ihi.org/communities/blogs/a-tool-to-promote-psychological-safety-during-and-after-covid-19

 

Ingraining equity into quality & safety: A system-wide strategy:

http://www.ihi.org/communities/blogs/ingraining-equity-into-quality-and-safety-a-system-wide-strategy

 

Reproductive Genetics/Women's Health

 

Gregg, AR, Skotko BG, Benkendorf JL, Monaghan KG, Bajaj K, Best BG... & Watson MS (2016). Noninvasive prenatal screening for fetal aneuploidy, 2016 update: a position statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Genetics in Medicine, 18(10), 1056-1065.

 

Suskin BG, Sciscione AM, Teigen N, Jenkins TC, Wapner RJ, Gregg AR... & Bajaj K. (2016). Revisiting the challenges of training Maternal Fetal Medicine fellows in chorionic villus sampling. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 215(6), 777-e1.

 

Ferreira JCP, Grati FR, Bajaj K, Malvestiti F, Grimi MB, Trotta A., ... & Maggi F. (2016).Frequency of fetal karyotype abnormalities in women undergoing invasive testing in the absence of ultrasound and other high‐risk indications. Prenatal Diagnosis, 36(12), 1146-1155.

 

Grati F. R., Bajaj K., Zanatta V., Malvestiti F., Malvestiti B., Marcato L., ... & Ferreira, J. (2017). Implications of fetoplacental mosaicism on cell‐free DNA testing for sex chromosome aneuploidies. Prenatal Diagnosis, 37(10), 1017-1027.

 

Skotko, BG, Allyse MA, Bajaj K, …..Gregg AR.  "Adherence of cell-free DNA noninvasive prenatal screens to ACMG recommendations." Genetics in Medicine (2019): 1-4.

 

Malhotra Y, Miller R, Bajaj K. No Change in Cesarean Section Rate During COVID-19 Pa​ndemic in New York City. EUJOG 2020

 

Malhotra Y, Rossberg MC, Bajaj K, Shtern A, Moore RM.  Demonstration of SARS-COV-2 Vertical Transmission Requires Chain of Laboratory Evidence. OBGYN 2020, in press

 

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