A special Keynote Series that explores the ‘missing link’ between our rapidly changing social world and our health and wellbeing.
Our world is changing at an uprecedented rate
Our perfectly honed survival mechanisms are running up against new challenges, some social, some biological — all affecting our health and wellbeing.
These ideas (and many more) are fueling a forthcoming book, co-authored with Dr. Louis Francescutti (former President of the Canadian Medical Association and former President of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada)
A Government OHS sponsored project to unearth the power of worker safety perception in assessing safety culture.
A Government OHS project
Compares safety perceptions, behaviours, and outcomes
Oil & Gas, Construction, First Responders, and Public Works
Employs the cutting-edge MySafetySurvey™
Builds Enhanced Safety Culture Awareness
Perhaps Canada’s most innovative investigation into the root causes of workplace procedural shortcuts and workarounds.
Why do some good workers wilfully choose to ignore procedure or do procedural shortcuts or workarounds?
A project that looks at the causes of intentional non-compliance among well-trained, safe, and experienced workers.
A Government OHS sponsored project
Oil & Gas, Construction, First Responders, and Public Works
Two related projects at the Rockyview General Hospital’s Internal Medicine Branch.
Developed a new competency-based approach for evaluating medical residency simulator sessions
Incorporated both technical and non-technical skills in medical simulation
The project won the University of Calgary’s Award for Medical Innovation
Created and tested a new Patient Handover Tool to reduce communication error and diagnostic bias
Practical experience and research have demonstrated the psychological risks associated with long-duration space missions. Accelerated diurnal cycles, social isolation, and repetitive behaviour, increase the risk of psychosocial conflict. While this mission threat has been catalogued, too few measures have been adopted to conteract interpersonal and crew conflict during flight.
Lead researcher
Working group | multi-author study
Healthcare practitioners are often forced to suffer lengthy shifts with little rest. Change must first be accomplished at the level of group culture.
Social dynamics and cultural change
Guest expert for the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario new fatigue countermeasure program
New challenges in Iraq and Afghanistan have altered the way in which military officers engage local populations. Grassroots conflict dynamics and intercultural communication were the focus of this 2-year involvement.
Wrote and facilitated (along with Dr. Hrach Gregorian) a program on intercultural negotiation for the Canadian Forces Joint Command & Staff Program (Toronto)
Several hundred NATO and non-NATO Majors and LCols in attendance, many deploying to Afghanistan
Live interactive negotation sessions
Improving communication, trapping error, and building safer teams was the heart of this World Health Organization initiative.
The only non-medical expert on the committee that introduced Canada’s first operating room checklist
A World Health Organization program called Safe Surgery Saves Lives
Keynote speaker at the OR Checklist launch event in Toronto
