In a special session of Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds on September 5, special guest Dr. Robert Califf will present “The Non-Learning Health System.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, September 5, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.
As a former US commissioner of food and drugs, Califf led the Food and Drug Administration from 2016 to 2017 and again from 2022 to 2025. Prior to his tenure at the FDA, Califf was a professor of medicine and the vice chancellor for clinical and translational research at Duke University. He was the founding director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the founding principal investigator for the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory. Califf was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.
In the Grand Rounds session, Califf will discuss how academia adapts or dies in our new environment, as well as inspire us to embrace these changes as an opportunity to improve.
In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Ankeet Bhatt of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research will present 
In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Jeffrey Spaeder and Adrian Hernandez will present