Event Details
Building an Enabling Environment for a Learning Health System at Vancouver Coastal Health
What does it take to make learning an enduring feature of how VCH operates, rather than a product of exceptional effort or individual initiative? The 2026 C2E2 Symposium is designed to answer this question. The focus is the enabling environment at VCH, the leadership, governance, and data infrastructure that make system-wide learning possible, and what it will take to get there.
Program Highlights
● A group priority-setting exercise to identify what VCH must align, resource, and change to move toward becoming a Learning Health System
● Practice-based examples of learning embedded in care, featuring VCH work from the Integrated Practice Units for surgical care, patient experience, and community health services
● A keynote and panel discussion with senior leaders and system partners on the leadership, governance, and data conditions required for system-wide learning
registerDeadline to register is April 20, 2026.
Featured Keynote Speaker
Laura Desveaux
Director, Learning Health System leadership Centre, Trillium Health Partners
An internationally recognized leader in governing and operationalizing Learning Health Systems at scale. Her keynote, Seeing Clearly, Acting Deliberately: What Learning Health Systems Make Possible, will explore how health organizations translate learning into sustained system-level improvement.
Stephanie Chartier-Plante
Hepatobiliary and Transplant surgery, VGH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of General Surgery, UBC
Dr. Stephanie Chartier-Plante graduated from medical school at Laval University in Quebec City. She completed residency training first in family medicine with the Northern Rural program in Prince George BC and subsequently completed general surgery residency at UBC in 2015. She completed a fellowship in hepatobiliary surgery at UBC and went to Dallas to complete a solid organ transplant fellowship at the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute at Baylor University Medical Center.
Dr. Chartier-Plante’s clinical focus is on liver transplant. She is also currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of General Surgery at UBC, and her academic interest includes quality improvement for liver transplant patients.
Jeremy Ho
Oncologist
Dr. Jeremy Ho is a community medical oncologist at Richmond Hospital (VCH) and a leader in quality improvement and digital health innovation. He leads the RESPONSe program, integrating remote symptom monitoring and patient-reported outcomes into oncology care. His work focuses on building systems through data-driven, patient-centered, and team-based approaches.
Patricia Chung
Executive Data and Analytics Offiicer
Pat is a data and analytics leader with more than 25 years of experience helping health systems turn data into better decisions and real‑world impact. At Vancouver Coastal Health, she has led the build‑out of trusted analytics capabilities—from delivering the organization’s first enterprise data warehouse to modernizing over 1,000 reports—working closely with clinical, operational, and finance teams. More recently, her work has focused on scaling automation, advanced analytics, and cloud‑based infrastructure to move analytics from one‑off insights to sustainable, enterprise capabilities. Pat is known for making complex data practical and approachable, and for building teams and strategies that actually deliver. She’s most at home at the intersection of technology and people, turning modern data platforms into tools that drive clarity, accountability, and a resilient data‑driven culture.
Elisa Lloyd-Smith
Co-Director/Senior Epidemiologist, Quality Analytics, QPS
Elisa Lloyd-Smith is a Senior Epidemiologist that has been working at Quality Patient Safety and Infection Prevention and Control at Providence Health Care and Vancouver Coastal Health for the last 20 years. More recently, she has become a Co-Director of Quality Analytics within Quality Patient Safety. Currently, she is co-teaching the Epidemiology component of an Infection Prevention and Control certificate program at the University of British Columbia. Elisa brings extensive applied Healthcare experience to her lens on Epidemiological methodology and analysis.
Eric Grafstein
Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
Dr. Grafstein completed the Royal College training in Emergency Medicine at McGill University in 1991. He has been the Chief Medical Information Officer for Vancouver Coastal Health – Providence Health Care (VCH-PHC) in British Columbia, Canada since 2015. He was part of the Clinical and Systems Transformation project (CST) helping to implement the Oracle-Cerner Electronic Health Record and served on the Project Executive. He also serves as the VCH Chief Medical Analytics Officer involved with developing advanced analytics for the region. Dr. Grafstein served as the Regional Head of Emergency Medicine at Vancouver Coastal Health – Providence Health Care from 2012 – 2026.
Saad Ahmed
Medical Director, Homelessness, Supported Housing, Complex Care Rehab
Dr. SAAD AHMED is a family physician and the medical director of homelessness, supported housing and complex care for Vancouver Coastal Health, as well as the co-lead of Vancouver Community’s embedded research program. He has particular clinical and research interests in health equity, as well as access to medications, being a co-PI on a CIHR grant to create a list of critical medications for Canada.
He also works as an emergency physician in Richmond, and as a clinical associate in the Vancouver General Hospital’s ICU.