BBASS welcomes **Professor Paul Barach, B.Med.Sci, MD, MPH, Maj (ret.* He is an international patient safety champion physician executive, practicing anaesthetist, prolific researcher with more than 300 publications and 5 books on patient safety andĀ health policy. He is an expert in surgical safety and human-centre 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 centres. 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 Anaesthesia. He founded and ran one of the first full team simulation centres 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.
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