Mary Brindle, MD, MPH
Associate Department Head of Surgery, University of Calgary; Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Calgary; Director, EQuIS
Mary Brindle is a Canadian Health Systems researcher and runs a quality and safety research platform at The University of Calgary. She was a visiting scholar at Ariadne Labs and member of the Safe Surgery research group. She continues to collaborate closely with Ariadne, working to develop a pediatric-specific surgical checklist in partnership with the Pediatric Surgical Chiefs of Canada. Dr. Brindle is working with the surgical safety group to re-examine the performance of the surgical safety checklist in high-income countries to determine aspects that may need to be updated for best performance including an exploration of how debriefing can be used to improve system function within high performing environments.