Implementation Science for Innovation and Discovery

The CTSI Academy presents a new education series on Implementation Science (IS). This new education series will offer a monthly presentation for faculty, staff and students to facilitate development, application, and uptake of innovation in research and scholarly activities using implementation science (IS). The curriculum will use a mix of case-based, journal club-format and more theoretical presentations.

The goal of the series to create a local IS learning community and develop a core group of institutional IS experts. Participants will be able to build their IS expertise to scale up innovation and discovery in real-world practice.

Sessions will generally be offered every fourth Wednesday of the month (except December). Attendees can attend the presentations virtually or in-person.

Upcoming Sessions

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Why Learning Health Systems Will Outperform Other Approaches to Improve Health

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 , 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. at the Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee Campus CTSI M1300 Nucleating Conference Room (located on the first floor of the Medical Education Building, just past the Hub Cafe) or via Zoom. Light refreshments will be available.

Speaker: Charles P. Friedman, PhD, Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Professor of Information, Professor of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan

About the Speaker

Charles Friedman is Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School, where he directs the Knowledge Systems Laboratory. He was formerly Founding Chair of the Department of Learning Health Sciences and the Josiah Macy Jr. Professor of Medical Education. He holds joint appointments in the Schools of information and Public Health. He is editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Learning Health Systems and co-chair of the multi-national movement to Mobilize Computable Biomedical Knowledge.

Throughout his career, Friedman has developed and studied methods to improve health, education, and research through innovative applications of information technology. Most recently, Friedman has focused his academic interests and activities on the concept of Learning Health Systems that improve health by marrying discovery to implementation, and the socio-technical infrastructure required to sustain these systems.

Friedman is a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and a founding fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne in Switzerland for his contributions to the science of Learning Health Systems. Prior to coming to Michigan, Friedman held executive positions at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Immediately prior to his work in the government, he was Associate Vice Chancellor for Biomedical Informatics, and Founding Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh.