SMCI Lecture Series

Jake Michelson, MBA

Date: May 12, 2026 from 12:00-1:00pm on ZOOM

Title: A Review of Improvement Training Offerings at Stanford Health Care

Speaker: Jake Michelson, MBA

 Zoom information:

Zoom Meeting ID: 966 0552 7781

Password: 247729

Session Description: This talk will provide a concise overview of Stanford Health Care’s improvement training offerings designed to build improvement capability across internal staff , providers, and external participants. We will describe each program, from foundational training to advanced leadership development, highlighting how they diff er in scope, length, and learning methods. Audience fit for these courses ranges from frontline staff seeking practical problem-solving to clinicians pursuing system-level change. We will explain how to apply the training to real-world improvement projects: selecting the right program, framing aims, engaging stakeholders, using data, and realizing the needed improvements