# NW Center of Excellence & K12 in Patient Centered Learning Health Systems Science

> **NIH AHRQ K12** · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $796,803

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The Oregon Health & Science University in partnership with Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region proposes a
Center of Excellence and K12 Training Program in patient centered outcomes & Learning Health Systems
Science (NW PCOR LHS COE & K12). Our Center collaborative and K12 program includes a community of 11
major health systems, academic learning, health policy organizations, and 2 PCORNet research networks
(OCHIN’s ADVANCE and Kaiser’s PORTAL) Further, we will leverage existing roles and relationships with
Academy Health and will work with AHRQ and PCORI in fostering a cross-K12 journal club and program
sharing. The overarching objective of the NW PCOR LHS COE & K12 is to develop our nation’s leaders and
innovators in Learning Health Systems (LHS) science. The LHS concept requires that evidence generation not
be an end in itself but rather that efforts to generate evidence must be accompanied by equally emphasized
efforts to apply it. Our framework for training and learning health systems science captures all data; analyzes,
appraises and synthesizes these data into evidence; and brings them into computable form so they can be
available at the point of care, allowing LHSs to achieve the triple aim of better care and improved patient
experiences at lower cost. We aim to create future research and LHS leaders who will guide us towards that
end goal. Our proposed curriculum, experiential activities, mentorship, partnerships, and programming provide
the core competencies required to generate these innovative leaders in learning health systems science. To
that end, the specific aims of our program are to: (1) recruit, train, and support 5 scholars at all times to
become our nation’s leaders and innovators in learning health systems science; (2) prepare scholars to design,
implement, and disseminate patient-engaged, evidence-based, real-world research projects to ensure the
uptake of research into improvements in health, health decision-making, and health care systems; and (3)
convene a cross-systems collaborative to promote cross-institutional scholar interactions, cooperative sharing
of curricula, methodological advances, and promote multi-site project opportunities. We will measure our
success in achieving the aims by: scholars’ meaningful engagement of patients and other stakeholders in
research; scholars’ PCOR LHS activities (e.g., grant submissions, funding, publications, presentations, patient
facing interactions, etc.); program, scholar, mentor, advisory committee, and external program evaluations;
scholars’ appointments to academic and national leadership positions; and adoption of programs, trainings,
and tools across systems of policy, practice, and payment in the NW region and beyond.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10015294
- **Project number:** 5K12HS026370-03
- **Recipient organization:** OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** JEANNE-MARIE GUISE
- **Activity code:** K12 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** AHRQ
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $796,803
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-30 → 2023-09-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10015294

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10015294, NW Center of Excellence & K12 in Patient Centered Learning Health Systems Science (5K12HS026370-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10015294. Licensed CC0.

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