October 20 : HPME Quality and Patient Care Seminar Series!

Safety Leadership : Learning from Healthcare and Other Industries

October 20, 2009

4-5:30 pm

155 College Street West

Room 208

Featuring Dr. Rhona Flin

Professor, Applied Psychology

University of Aberdeen

Rhona Flin (PhD, FBPsS, FRSE) is Professor of Applied Psychology and
Director of the Industrial Psychology Research Centre at the University of
Aberdeen. She leads a team of psychologists conducting research on human
performance in high risk industries and healthcare. Her group's projects
include studies of leadership, culture, team skills and decision making in
acute medicine, aviation and energy industries. She is currently studying
surgeons', anaesthetists' and nurses' non-technical skills and safety
climate in hospitals and is leading the Scottish Patient Safety Research
Network, established in 2007 (www.spsrn.ac.uk). Her latest books are Safety
at the Sharp End: A Guide to Non-Technical Skills (with O'Connor & Crichton,
Ashgate, 2008) and Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating
Theatre (with Mitchell, Ashgate, 2009).


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Upcoming Toronto Quality and Patient Safety Events!

HPME Seminar Series: Bridging the Quality Chasm Health Services Research Seminars

Topic: Improving the quality and safety of health care: Current developments in the NHS and why studying organizatioal issues is important
Date : Monday, September 21
Time : 4:00-5:30
Speaker: Dr. Naomi Fulop, NIHR King's Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre, King's College, London

For more information on the 2009/2010 HPME Health Services Research Seminars please visit:
http://www.hpme.utoronto.ca/about/events/hsrseminar0910.htm

CHSRF Researcher on Call Series: October 14

Topic: Emergency Room Overcrowding
Time: 12:00-12:45 pm (Teleconference format)

Featuring: Dr. Malcolm Dupe, Dr. Ricardo Lobata di Faria and Andre Maddison

Register Now!
http://www.chsrf.ca/research/researcher_on_call_overcrowding_e.php


OHA Annual Health Achieve: November 16, 17 & 18

FREE to students! Be a part of the largest health care conference in Ontario! Network with over 9,000 colleagues and hear star speakers including : Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Silken Laumen and Michael Moore!

Register for FREE here:
http://www.ohahealthachieve.com/Client/OHA/healthachieve09_lp4w_lnd_webstation.nsf/resources/StudentFlyer/$file/4168+HA_student-flyer_v7.pdf

There is a Patient Safety session featuring Dr. Dave Williams who is an astronaut and aquanaut on Monday, November 16 from 1:30 - 3 pm. Dr. Williams will be talking about 'Quality Based Medicine: Creating a Culture of Patient Safety'

Check it out:
http://www.ohahealthachieve.com/Client/OHA/healthachieve09_lp4w_lnd_webstation.nsf/ab62aa378257da8985257286006f4b6e/e951e9004498a14b852573590068896e!OpenDocument