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).


For more information please visit: http://www.hpme.utoronto.ca/about/events/hsrseminar0910.htm