Leading Performance Improvement at Stanford with Dr. Terry Platchek

Terry Platchek, MD serves as Vice President for Performance Improvement and Associate Chief Quality Officer at Stanford Medicine Children’sHealth, as Co-Executive Director of the StanfordMedicine Center for Improvement and as a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Stanford.  Dr. Platchek’s career focuses on healthcare improvement with an emphasis on using Lean management to improve quality,safety, service, appropriateness and cost in healthcare delivery. Dr. Platchekis co-author of the book Advanced Lean in Healthcare and is co-author to over dozens of peer reviewed publications describing improvements in healthcare delivery and advocating for higher value models of care. In his role overseeing performance improvement at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, Dr. Platchek is a key leader driving improvement practice throughout the organization which has repeatedly ranked as a top 10 Children’s hospital in the US. 

Dr. Platchek has been active nationally and internationally in advocating for healthcare system improvement and promoting clinician engagement.  He is a founder and co-convener of the Lean Healthcare Academic Conference and has advised healthcare systems across the US, Australia and the UK on value improvement and junior doctor continuous improvement programs.  He also helped found and co-leads the Stanford Medicine Center for Improvement and has over 50 invited presentations and published abstracts.

Dr. Platchek co-designed and directs the Clinical Excellence Research Center Fellowship which engages elite post-doctoral clinicians and scientists in value incented healthcare delivery innovation using human-centered design methodology, bright spots research, and cost analysis. Over 50 fellows have graduated from the program and their care models which lower the cost of great healthcare, have been published in leading journals with many elements in use across the United States .

Dr. Platchek holds degrees from Georgetown University (BS) and the University of Michigan (MD).  He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan, followed by a Chief Residency in the Department Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases.  He practices as a Pediatric Hospitalist at Stanford.

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