BBASS is delighted to be joined by a special guest.
**Professor Paul Barach, B.Med.Sci, MD, MPH, Maj (ret.),**is an international patient safety champion physician executive, practicing anesthetist, prolific researcher with more than 300 publications and 5 books on patient safety and health policy. He is an expert in surgical safety and human-center design, and a passionate believer in smart health information technology to improve the safety and quality of surgical care. He is double boarded anaesthesiologist and critical care physician-scientist, trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Paul is an elected member of the lead international honorary society the Association of University Anaesthesiologists. Paul held the position of Chief Quality Officer and Associate Chief Medical Officer for major academic medical centers. Paul is former member of ASA and WFSA Patient Safety and Quality committees, and Chair of the patient safety commission for the World Society of Intravenous Anesthesia. He founded and ran one of the first full team simulation centers in the world and helped develop the team training program TeamSTEPPS.
Paul has been regularly funded for his research and his work has led to over $16,000,000 in grant funding. Paul holds numerous US and international academic part time positions including as Honorary Professor, Department of Surgery, Imperial College, London; Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham, UK; University of Queensland, Australia; Professor, Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, Austria; Lecturer and senior advisor to Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health; Visiting Professor Milan Polytechnic; Visiting Professor and Honorary Professor, National Cancer Center in Seoul, Korea; Visiting Professor, Riphah University, Pakistan and at MUHAS, Tanzania. He is former editor of the BMJ Quality and Safety journal.
The surgeon works in partnership with his / her anaesthetic colleague. We joke about this as a blood brain barrier. Why is this important and how can we achieve the best outcomes for our patients. It is time to recognise that our behaviours and communications (and lack thereof ) have dramatic consequences. Learn with BBASS and keep an open mind. This is a team effort.