Learning Health Care Symposium set for Oct. 3


By Roman Petrowski, Office of Communications

Dr. Richard Platt - Learning Health Care Symposium Keynote Speaker
Richard Platt, MD, MSc

The Institute for Clinical Research and Learning Health Care, formerly known as the Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine, will celebrate its 25th anniversary by hosing the Learning Health Care Symposium from 8 a.m. until 12:15 p.m., Oct. 3 at the Memorial Hermann Conference Center.

Learning Health Care constitutes an evolving paradigm shift in clinical medicine that is crucial to most rapidly advance patient outcomes and population health by incorporating learning seamlessly into every day patient care.

The keynote speaker for the symposium will be Richard Platt, MD, MSc, professor and chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine and president of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Platt will present on “Advancing Learning Health by Facilitating Pragmatic Trials in Everyday Patient Care.” Platt has extensive experience in developing systems and capabilities for using routinely collected electronic health information to support public health surveillance, medical product safety assessments, comparative effectiveness and outcomes research, and quality improvement programs.

Additional speakers to address the integration of learning health care into all medical fields include Jon E. Tyson, MD, MPHBela Patel, MD, CMQ, FCCPSusan Wootton, MDLillian Kao, MD, FACSEric Thomas, MD, MPHSean Blackwell, MDCharles E. Miller, PhD; and Mat Rysavy, MD, PhD.

Registration for the Learning Health Care Symposium is free and is now available. For more information, visit the Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine website.