Dr. Keren provides physician leadership for quality and operational excellence activities across the enterprise and focuses much of his work on innovation in healthcare. He is the deputy editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics and is the founding leader of the system’s center for healthcare quality and analytics. The center is home to several teams that support a large portfolio of projects focused on safety, quality improvement, human factors engineering, clinical pathways, antimicrobial stewardship, data and analytics. The clinical pathways program publishes and maintains the largest collection of pediatric care protocols, used by tens of thousands of clinicians around the world. Dr. Keren also founded and leads CHOP’s innovation catalyst program, which uses design thinking methods to develop solutions for some of the toughest challenges in healthcare. Before moving into healthcare administration, Dr. Keren was founding director of Clinical Futures, a CHOP research institute center dedicated to advancing clinical research for children. He received the “Alfred Stengel Health System Champion Award” from Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine in 2018, recognizing his significant contributions toward clinical integration, efficiency and quality of care.
