Ko Un ‘Clara’ Park, MD received her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Notre Dame and her medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine. She completed general surgery residency training at the Henry Ford Health System and a breast surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She… Continue reading Ko Un ‘Clara’ Park
Brian Campos, MD is a general surgery resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Safe Surgery/Safe Systems Fellow at Ariadne Labs. His work at Ariadne focuses on the development of digital interventions for older surgical patients and their care partners. He is also involved in the development and implementation of teamwork models that promote communication… Continue reading Brian Campos
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.
Meagan Elam, DrPH, MS with colleagues from the BU School of Public Health published research that identifies gaps in current implementation strategies of the Surgical Safety Checklist and provides guidance on how to address them in high-income surgical settings.
Dr. George Molina joins the The AHPBA Podcast to discuss the Safe Surgery / Safe Systems OR Black Box work.
Jamie Hillas is a general surgery resident and a Safe Surgery/Safe Systems Fellow at Ariadne Labs. Her work at Ariadne is focused on maximizing surgical safety using the OR Black Box and emphasis on non-technical skills, as well as utilizing implementation science to optimize Synoptic Operative Report implementation. Jamie attended Middlebury College where she studied… Continue reading Jamie Hillas
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.
Since its creation more than a decade ago, the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist has made surgery safer for patients around the world. However, simply displaying the Checklist in an operating room wall does not guarantee better outcomes. How the Checklist is implemented and ingrained into clinical culture plays a key role in its success. A… Continue reading Surgical Safety Checklist Reimplementation Improves Patient Outcomes
Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team conducted a national survey of perioperative healthcare professionals to explore opinions on morbidity and mortality conferences (MMCs) and team-based morbidity and mortality conferences (TBMMs).
Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team’s latest research uses OR Black Box data to provide useful insight into surgical safety checklist performance.
