Past Webinars


Margo Edmunds, PhD FAMIA, Vice President for Evidence Generation and Translation and Director of the Center on Diversity, Inclusion, and Minority Engagement (DIME) at AcademyHealth, discusses Applying a Racial Equity Lens in LHS Research. See the full video here.

Slides from Dr. Edmunds’ talk can be found here.


Dr. Andrew Masica, MD MSCI, SFHM, Senior Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer for Texas Health Resources (Texas Health), discusses Applying Learning Health System Activities as a Driver of Care Improvement. See the full video here.

Dr. Masica mentions this paper during his talk:


Dr. Janet Porter, PhD, Co-Director and Faculty of Leading Quality Improvement Program, Institute for Healthcare Improvement asks, What is Your Leadership Journey? See the full video here.


David Atkins, MD, MPH, Director of VA’s Health Services Research and Development (HSRD) Service, discusses the Role of ‘Big R’ Research in a Learning Healthcare System. See the full video here.

Slides from Dr. Atkins’ presentation can be found here.


Kedar Mate, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses the intersection between quality improvement and research. See the full video here.

Slides from Dr. Mate’s presentation can be found here.


Mark Linzer, MD, M. Thomas Stillman Endowed Chair and Director of Education, Mentorship and Scholarship in the Department of Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare, and Professor of Medicine at University of Minnesota, discusses Moral injury, burnout reduction and creating an ethical work climate through LHS. See the full video here.


Carolyn Clancy, MD MACP, serves as the Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks (DEAN). An internal medicine physician, health services researcher, and policy maker, Dr. Clancy reflects on Learning Health Systems Research now and in the future. See the full video here.


Lucy Savitz PhD, MBA, Co-Program Director for the Northwest Learning Health Systems Center of Excellence and K12, and a national leader in health services research and improvement, discusses her journey as an embedded scientist. See the full video here.


Dr. Lori Carter-Edwards, PhD, MPH of Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine discusses meaningful community engagement for Learning Health System science. See the full video here.

Slides from Dr. Carter-Edwards’ presentation are available here.


Dr. Steven Asch, MD, MPH, of the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and Stanford University, looks back across the last few decades of health services research and asks whether things are improving and how learning health systems and health services researchers might have contributed. See the full video here.


Dr. Janet Porter, PhD, MBA of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement discusses the importance of leadership development and important skills to use when working with the C-suite to invest in research development and translation. See the full video here.

Slides from Dr. Porter’s presentation are available here.


Brian Mittman, PhD of Kaiser Permanente discusses his experiences as an embedded researcher and his vision of the fields of implementation, improvement and health care delivery science going into the future. See the full video here.


Dr. Becky Yano, PhD, MSPH of the VA HSR&D Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP) discusses her experience in the VA as an embedded researcher and the tensions that inevitably arise among stakeholders in bringing evidence to bear on healthcare delivery system problems and how to navigate these challenges in a real-world health system setting. See the full video here.


Dr. Flory Nkoy, MD of the University of Utah joined us to discuss his research journey and his work pioneering new approaches in improving the care of children with chronic diseases. See the full video here.

See Dr. Nkoy’s slides here.


Dr. Chuck Friedman, PhD of the University of Michigan joined us to discuss what unique characteristics create the essence of a learning health system. See the full video here.

Dr. Friedman mentions links to two resources during his talk:


Dr. Nilay Shah, PhD of Mayo Clinic joined us to discuss his lessons learned from the success and failures of a career as a researcher within a learning health system. See the full video here.


Dr. Peter Embi, MD, MS of Regenstrief Institute joined us to discuss how informatics can be leveraged to build and improve learning health systems. See the full video here.


Dr. Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH of AcademyHealth joined us to discuss the value of learning health system science and strategies for promoting embedded research. See the full video here.


Dr. Nancy Kass, ScD of Johns Hopkins University joined us to discuss the role of ethics within learning health care systems. See the full video here.