Blog & Events
Call for Abstracts: SMCI’s 7th Annual Excellence in Publication Awards
Abstracts due October 9th
Enrollment Open: Advanced Course in Improvement Science
Join us for the Advanced Course in Improvement Science in 2026-2027 in Palo Alto, CA
2026 Lean Healthcare Academic Conference
Join us for the Stanford Lean conference September 28-29, 2026
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford, CA
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Addressing wellness through community-based organizations: A qualitative evaluation of social service access for Medicaid beneficiaries via New York's Section 1115 waiver
Speakers: Nadia Safaeinili, PhD
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Nurse-led implementation of evidence-based bundles to reduce CAUTIs in an academic acute care hospital: A four-year longitudinal quasi-experimental study
Speakers: May Riley & Wei-chen Tung
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Using Systems Complexity in Community Engagement
Speakers: Donald Nease Jr, MD
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Evaluation of Ambient AI Scribe Deployment in a Large Integrated Health System
Speakers: Aaron Tierney, PhD
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: NOVA-HF: Primary Prevention of Heart Failure in US Veterans – From Validation to Randomized Trial
Speaker: Rebecca Tisdale, MD, MPA and Neil Kalwani, MD, MPP
Call for Abstracts: Lean Healthcare Academic Conference
Abstracts due June 24, 2026
Join us for the conference September 28-29, 2026
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford, CA
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Best Practices for Patient Centered Communication and Documentation: AI Tools and Clinical Guidance
Speaker: Natasha Steele
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Beyond the Bedside: Advancing Care Through Nursing Research, Magnet Excellence, and Interdisciplinary Partnership
Speaker: Grissel Hernandez
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: A Review of Improvement Training Offerings at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
Speaker: Sheri Nakamura, RN
2026 SMCI Quality Symposium
Join us May 5th, 2026 at Li Ka Shing’s Berg Hall
Stanford Affiliates: Submit your poster abstract by April 10th
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: A Review of Improvement Training Offerings at Stanford Health Care
Speaker: Jake Michelson, MBA
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Multidisciplinary Teamwork to Equitably Deliver Precision Digital Health: The 4T Study
Speaker: David Maahs, MD PhD
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: From Algorithms to Action: Using a Hospital Digital Twin to Close the Gap Between Optimization and Implementation
Speakers: David Scheinker, PhD
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Advancing Diagnostic Excellence Through Applied Clinical Informatics: Outcomes Feedback, Decision Support and Opportunity Surveillance
Speakers: Robert El-Kareh, MD
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Behind the Screens: Using EHR Metadata to Improve Patient Safety
Speakers: Daniel Tawfik, MD, MS
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Improving Long Covid Care
Speakers: Linda Geng, MD, PhD; Hector Bonilla, MD; and the Evaluation Sciences Unit
SMCI Lecture Series
Title: Networks at Scale: What Administrative Data Can Tell Us About Collaboration
Speakers: Rachel Ross, PhD, MPH