SmartState Endowed Chair in Clinical Practice and Human Factors
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Professor Catchpole is a Human Factors Research Practitioner who has spent the last 19 years studying and improving safety in acute care. Initially exploring patient safety in congenital heart surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and integrating teamwork and ‘Lean’ approaches at the John Radcliffe in Oxford, he moved to Cedars-Sinai in 2011 to explore improvements in trauma, eventually taking the Endowed Chair in Clinical Practice and Human Factors in the Department of Anesthesia at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2016. Locally, he applies human factors expertise in accident analysis and quality improvement across the clinical enterprise, from signage design, falls, CLABSI, sepsis and failure-to-rescue to all manner of organizational reliability and safety concerns. His current research projects, totaling over $6m in US federal funding, include improving anesthesia medication delivery; safety in robotic surgery; and sterile processing work systems improvement; with a dozen other interests at any one time. Through over 125 peer-reviewed publications, public speaking, and the media, he has engaged thousands of people in the improvement of healthcare from a sociotechnical systems perspective, while working to embed human factors practice in everyday care.
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Saturday, December 17, 2022
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM US Eastern Time
Sunday, December 18, 2022
10:30 AM – 10:55 AM US Eastern Time