Rachel Moyal-Smith
Rachel Moyal-Smith, DrPH, PA-C is a Senior Clinical Implementation Specialist on the Implementation Platform at Ariadne Labs and a Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this role, Rachel partners with investigators across Ariadne Labs in designing, testing, and spreading solutions to improve healthcare systems within the United States and globally. She has experience in implementing “on the ground” innovations in healthcare settings and has expertise in applying implementation science in designing implementation plans and research.
Prior to joining Ariadne Labs, Rachel worked as a physician assistant in surgery and emergency medicine. She was previously appointed assistant professor at Albany Medical College and has taught and developed curriculum in the fields of health policy, public health, and evidence-based medicine.
Rachel earned her BS in Human Biology from University at Albany, her Master of Science degree in Physician Assistant Studies from Albany Medical College, and her Doctor of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Rachel Moyal-Smith, Kaisin Yee, and Mary Brindle in HBR on reimplementation of a surgical checklist at Singapore General Hospital and a how-to on conducting a reimplementation.
Tools for approaching surgical reopening and successful triage.
Singapore General Hospital’s published results in Social Science and Medicine on our collaboration looking to go beyond assessing checklist compliance and to better understand potential sociopsychological mechanisms of the variations in SSC practices.
Ariadne Labs and CRICO/Risk Management Foundation publish the Patient Safety Adoption Framework in the Journal of Patient Safety.
The Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team publishes their results on a framework to breathe new life into their checklist and transform their safety culture.
The Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team publishes their latest research on Device Briefing Tool (DBT) as an adjunct to the Surgical Safety Checklist.
The Safe Surgery / Safe Systems team collaborated with the American College of Surgeons to develop the Guide for Building Surgeon Resilience.
