Joaquim Havens, MD

Joaquim Havens, MD

Director of Emergency General Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Joaquim Havens MD, is investigating the burden of emergency general surgery in the United States. He has developed and tested the use of an emergency general surgery checklist and intra-operative huddle under a grant from CRICO. In collaboration with Johnson and Johnson he has helped develop a Device Briefing Tool which has been pilot tested in Thailand and is currently being tested throughout Singapore.