About Us
Better Health, Less Spending
The Clinical Excellence Research Center organizes research teams from multiple Stanford Schools to design and test new methods of health care delivery that substantially reduce population-wide disability and annual per capita health spending in the near term. Research is led by teams of post-doctoral research fellows and mentored by faculty from multiple Stanford Schools with initial emphasis on Business, Engineering and Medicine.
The research mission is analogous to designing safer, more energy-efficient means of transportation. One year fellows will be involved in the design and testing phases of new care model development. Two year fellows will also be able to participate in an evaluation phase that quantifies the new care model's impact on disability and health spending.
During the Center's start-up phase, it will provide research budgets to fellows who can bring their own fellowship funding. As the Center matures, it will also offer fellowship funding.
Our Partnerships
The Center has formed two external networks to inform and support its research teams. One network consists of health care systems regarded as the most cost-effective in the US and will help researchers to assure that their designs are informed by today's highest performing care models.
The other network consists of health systems willing to allow the Center's researchers to test their new care models and health care payers willing to incentivize providers participating in the tests.
The Center's fully dedicated faculty will grow to a core of four by 2013.