About

Lane F. Donnelly MD is currently a Professor of Radiology & Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.  He also serves as the Executive Medical Director of Pediatric Population Health & Quality for the UNC Health Alliance and the Director of Quality for UNC Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Donnelly has been an NIH funded researcher, has published over 300 peer review manuscripts that have been cited over 12,900 times and has authored multiple textbooks, including Pediatric Imaging: The Fundamentals, a lead selling textbook on pediatric imaging.  Many improvement projects for which he was a contributor have received multiple national recognitions including International Quality Radiology Network’s Quality-Improvement in Radiology Practices Paper Competition:  Annual Award 2008 (Paper of the Year); Caffey Award – for Outstanding Presented Paper, Society for Pediatric Radiology (2001, 2009, 2011); 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards; Singleton–Taybi Award for Lifetime Achievements in Education, Society for Pediatric Radiology (2009); Journal of the America College of Radiology 2018 Paper of the Year Award; and the 2009 Best Scientific Paper Award – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); Presidential Recognition Award from the Society for Pediatric Radiology (2023); and the Distinguished Alumni Award – University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (2020).  Dr. Donnelly has served on the Board of Trustees for both the American Board of Radiology and the Society for Pediatric Radiology.

Former Leadership positions include Radiologist-in-Chief and Frederic N. Silverman Chair of Pediatric Radiology as well as Executive Cabinet member at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (2002-2011); Inaugural Chief Medical Officer / Physician-in-Chief at the Nemours Children’s Hospital (helping plan, staff, and open the greenfield hospital in 2012) and Enterprise Vice President as well as Enterprise Radiologist-in-Chief for the Nemours Foundation (2011-2015); Chief Quality Officer for Hospital Based Services at Texas Children’s Hospital (2015-2017); and Professor, an Associate Dean, and Co-Executive Director of Stanford Medicine Center for Improvement at Stanford University School of Medicine and Chief Quality Officer and Christopher G. Dawes Endowed Director of Quality at Stanford Children’s Health (2017-2022).  He was educated at The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.