2026 Closing the Quality Divide – Providing health care we want, need, and deserve

Closing the Quality Divide” is more than providing consistent and excellent care to everyone; it also requires turning to the concepts and lessons covered in the 2001 Crossing the Quality Chasm report to provide unique, individualized care to each patient so they receive the health care they want, need, and deserve.


Crossing the Quality Chasm: Reflections on 25 Years of Quality Improvement and the Road Ahead

Dive into the holistic, analytical approach of systems thinking to help understand why certain health care gaps remain and what can be done as individuals and leaders to move toward the system of care we want and need.
William C. Dunagan, MD, MS

William C. Dunagan, MD, MS

Professor of Medicine

Act Like a Child: Learning from Pediatric Patient Safety

In many ways, the children’s hospital safety movement borrows from characteristics exemplified by children and can be a model for safety improvement across the health care industry. This session explores the history, philosophy, results, ...
Anne Lyren, MD, MSc

Anne Lyren, MD, MSc

chief medical and strategy officer of the SPS Network

Ignite to Innovate: Fueling the Fire of Diagnostic Excellence

Through ADEPT and MeasureDx, a program of case review and improvement has been created, aimed at enhancing diagnostic safety within Hospital Medicine.
Radha Devi Radhakrishna Pillai, MD, SFHM, FACP

Radha Devi Radhakrishna Pillai, MD, SFHM, FACP

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, WashU Medicine
Timothy Evans, MD, MS

Timothy Evans, MD, MS

Assistant Professor in Medicine and Pediatrics, Divisions of Hospital Medicine and Pediatric Hospital Medicine, WashU Medicine

Hospital-to-Housing: Unexpected Synergy When Aligning Costs, Clinical Outcomes, and Social Determinants of Health

This session explores the impact of providing housing with wrap-around case management services to unhoused patients with a high-utilization emergency department services, with a history of mental health and/or substance use disorders.
Randy Jotte, MD

Randy Jotte, MD

Professor, Emergency Medicine

Healthy Kids Express Asthma Program: Improving Access to Quality Care for Children with Asthma

The session provides the opportunity to learn what constitutes quality pediatric asthma care, the components of a community asthma program, and how these both tie into overall mission and outcomes of the Healthy Kids Express Asthma Program.
Anne Borgmeyer, DNP, RN, CPNP

Anne Borgmeyer, DNP, RN, CPNP

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Al Tools in the EHR: Experience and Paths Forward

The session explores the exciting possibilities of how, when used appropriately, AI tools in the electronic health record (EHR) space have the ability to assist clinicians in numerous ways to improve clinical documentation.
Jeffrey Sattler, PharmD, DO, FAMIA

Jeffrey Sattler, PharmD, DO, FAMIA

System Medical Informatics and CDI Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine, Saint Luke's, BJC Health West Region

Oral abstract presentations

Oral abstract presentations.
Abbigail Huddleston, DO

Abbigail Huddleston, DO

Pediatrics Resident, WashU Medicine, St. Louis Children's Hospital
Elizabeth Lanham, MD

Elizabeth Lanham, MD

Pediatrics Resident, WashU Medicine, St. Louis Children's Hospital
Emily Wambold, MSN, RN, CPNP, APN

Emily Wambold, MSN, RN, CPNP, APN

Quality, Safety & Practice Excellence,
St. Louis Children’s Hospital