The Architecture of Learning: Systems, Infrastructure, and Leadership for Health System Transformation
 

SPEAKER
Peter Margolis, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor, General Pediatrics
Stanford School of Medicine

SESSION DESCRIPTION
Health care can improve as a system only if its parts are aligned around the shared purpose of better health for all. This talk explores how learning health systems integrate science, data, and culture to enable continuous improvement and innovation. Through real-world examples—from a single patient’s question to national learning networks—we will examine how infrastructure, leadership, and community engagement create the conditions for systems that learn and improve at scale.

EDUCATION GOALS

• Define and differentiate the essential components of a learning health system, including how science, informatics, incentives, and culture align to drive continuous improvement.
• Describe how organizational form and infrastructure enable learning at different levels of scale—from clinical teams to national networks.
• Identify leadership strategies and system design principles that foster shared purpose, co-production, and sustainable learning within complex health systems.

LOCATION (in-person)
Center for Academic Medicine
Grand Rounds Room 
453 Quarry Road,
Palo Alto, CA 94304
 

ZOOM INFORMATION
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