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KEYNOTES
SimTecT 2008 Health - Speakers
International and local speakers have special interests in the following streams:
- Competency assessment
- Surgical skills, Nursing and midwifery practice
- Accreditation of Training and Facilities
- Patient therapy (including mental health) “Cybertherapy”
- Standardised Patients
- Human Factors
- Non-technical Skills
- Debriefing
- Establishment of new centres.
Opening Speaker
Hon. Nicola Roxon
Minister for Health and Ageing
The Conference will be formally opened on the Tuesday by the Hon. Nicola Roxon, the Minister for Health and Ageing
The Hon Nicola Roxon is the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing.
She has been a member of Federal Parliament since 1998 representing the western suburbs seat of Gellibrand in Melbourne.
Nicola has been in Parliament for 10 years and was elected to the House of Representatives in October 1998 as the Federal Labor Member for Gellibrand.
She previously held the positions of Shadow Minister for Health, Shadow Attorney-General, Shadow Minister Children and Youth, Shadow Minister for Immigration and assisted the Leader on the Status of Women.
Prior to entering Parliament, Nicola worked as a Senior Associate at Labor law firm Maurice Blackburn, a Judge's Associate with High Court Justice Mary Gaudron, and as an Industrial Officer with the National Union of Workers.
Nicola has a First Class Honours Law degree and Arts degree from Melbourne University. She won the Supreme Court Prize for top law graduate in 1990.
She is in charge of the Government's $2.5 billion Health and Hospital
Reform Plan.
David M. Gaba MD
Professor of Anesthesia
Associate Dean for Immersive and
Simulation-based Learning
CHP /PCOR Fellow
David Gaba is a Professor of Anesthesia and Associate Dean for Immersive and Simulation-based Learning at the Stanford School of Medicine, as well as a CHP/PCOR fellow.
He is interested in a wide variety of topics related to patient safety, including high fidelity patient simulation; the effects of fatigue on clinicians’ performance; and organisational learning through adverse event reporting and analysis.
He directs the Patient Safety Center of Inquiry at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, which does work in the following areas: the theory of organizational safety applied to health care; teamwork and simulation training of healthcare personnel; the effects of fatigue on healthcare personnel; evaluating the “culture of safety” in healthcare institutions and seeking to improve the safety culture through specific interventions; organisational learning through adverse event reporting and analysis systems; the connection between patient safety issues in routine clinical care and in research involving human subjects; and the human factors involved in the use of medical equipment. Dr Gaba is also secretary of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation.
He received a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University, an MD from Yale University, and completed a Residency in Anesthesiology at Stanford.
Dr Paul Phrampus
Director of the WISER Simulation Center in Pittsburgh
Dr. Phrampus is the Director at the Peter M. Winter Center for Simulation, Education and Research. He received a B.S. in Biology from Old Dominion University and an M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a board certified Emergency Physician who completed residency training at the University of Pittsburgh where he now holds an appointment of Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Phrampus has been very active in patient safety efforts in airway management and led a team to create an airway algorithm and an accompanying difficult airway management simulation course specific to the practice of emergency medicine. This course has now been completed by the entire emergency medicine faculty staff of the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. This course will soon be deployed across the emergency departments of the universities 19 hospital system.
Dr. Phrampus has an extensive background in Emergency Medical Services and serves as an active EMS medical director. He has deployed simulation technology for both testing as well as competency assessment measures in EMS services in Southwestern Pennsylvania. He co-authored a simulation course for flight crew training for Stat Medevac, which operates 16 helicopters, multiple fixed wing aircraft and employs over 200 crew members, flying over 10,000 missions per year.
He has been active in education for many years and was recently awarded the faculty excellence award by the University of Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Residency. He is a frequent lecturer on various topics in medicine. His interests in education include the implementation of technology into the world of education to increase the efficiency of learning and developing models of cognitive decision making assessments. He has many years of experience with computer system and electronics gained from his years of service in the United States Navy.
Dr Kim Leighton
Dean of Instructional Technology, BryanLGH College of Health Sciences in Lincoln, Nebraska
Kim Leighton is the Dean of Instructional Technology at BryanLGH College of Health Sciences in Lincoln, Nebraska, and adjunct faculty for Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI). She facilitates learning in the simulation lab daily for nursing, allied health, and nurse anesthesia students; as well as provides opportunities for new graduates and practicing nurses. Kim’s primary interests are in curriculum integration of simulation, the role of the facilitator in simulated learning, and enhancement of the simulated clinical environment to promote holistic patient care.
