Lessons Learned on the Path Towards Improving Outcomes for Children

Louis M. Bell, MD is an emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, the emeritus Associate Chair for Clinical Activities in the Department of Pediatrics and the emeritus Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He holds the Patrick S. Pasquariello, Jr., MD Chair in Pediatric Medicine. Dr. Bell’s clinical focus is pediatric hospital medicine and infectious diseases. He has held subspecialty board certification in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Dr. Bell was elected to the Assembly of Master Clinicians of the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in 2014.

Over the years, Dr, Bell has won numerous teaching awards including CHOP’s Teacher of the year award in 1990 and again in 2005, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine’s Dean’s award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, The School of Medicine Blockley-Osler Award for Excellence in teaching clinical medicine at the bedside and the 2009 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, PENN’s most prestigious teaching award. Dr. Bell has published more than 90 peer-reviewed research publications and over 90 chapters, reviews, and books with a focus on understanding the epidemiology and improving the treatment and management of pediatric infectious diseases and general pediatric hospital care.

Dr. Bell was the Founder and Director of the Pediatric Research Consortium (PeRC), a Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) at CHOP with a mission to improve ambulatory care of children through clinical research (director from 2003-2017). Established with a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the network continues to thrive and includes 31 primary care practices with more than 200 providers in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand that USA Healthcare is the costliest in the world
  2. List the core services and competencies needed to improve healthcare outcomes for children
  3. Discuss a case example that illustrates how they were used to improve care

Speaker:

This seminar focuses on general pediatrics and was delivered as a Pediatric Grand Rounds Lecture at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, on September 17, 2025.

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