Stanford Medicine Community of Improvement Professionals (SCIP)

October 5th, 2021

SCIP, A place where you could discuss improvement concepts with like-minded professionals, in a nonthreatening, fun environment

Jakaria Stewart

Jakaria Stewart is a Principal Consultant with the Stanford Healthcare Improvement Team. Her current book of business includes supporting teams with improvement efforts in both the inpatient and ambulatory settings, coaching improvement projects, teaching improvement systems and tactics to departments and small teams and serving as a thought partner to healthcare leaders. Prior to joining Stanford Health Care, Jakaria spent over 10 years at Kaiser Permanente transforming operations in both clinical and operational spaces driving increased quality and efficiency through improvement impacting the mission of high-quality affordable health care. At Kaiser Permanente and in the community (Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, The Links Incorporated, Jack and Jill of America, ATD, and many other organizations), Jakaria has been a force driving outcomes through her impact in leadership roles, mentoring, and setting an environment ripe with a desire to collaborate and achieve.

Ryan Darke

Ryan Darke began at Stanford Health Care as a Principal Improvement Consultant in November 2020, where he coaches, teaches, and facilitates teams across all levels and entities within the organization. Prior to his current position, he served for 12 years as Performance Improvement Director/Area Portfolio Leader for Kaiser Foundation Hospital/Health Plan. In that role, he had responsibility for the local portfolio management office, overseeing performance improvement, project management, strategy, Medicare operations and frontline, unit-based teams. Ryan received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physiology from UC Davis, a master’s degree in Health Administration from University of Missouri, and two Lean certificates (Lean Healthcare and Lean Leadership) from University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and he is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from Juran Institute. Ryan was a contributor to Kaiser Permanente’s CoDesign and Video Ethnography methods of incorporating voice of the patient. He has acted as faculty or presenter at local, national and international conferences and trainings. Ryan is a published author in multiple journals and was selected to represent Kaiser Permanente as the Black Belt Lead for two Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare projects: Reducing Sepsis Mortality and Reducing C. difficile Infections (the latter project won the 2017 National Lawrence Award for Patient Safety).