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KEYNOTES
INVITED
SimTecT 2009 Health - Speakers
Opening Speaker: The Hon Daniel Andrews MP
The Hon Daniel Andrews MP
Minister for Health, Victoria
The SimTecT Health 2009 Simulation Conference will be formally opened on Tuesday the 8th September by the Hon Daniel Andrews, MP, the Victorian Minister for Health.
Professor Rhona Flin
Rhona Flin (PhD, FBPsS, FR SE)
Professor of Applied Psychology,
Director of the Industrial Psychology Research Centre and
Patient Safety Research Group, University of Aberdeen,
and of the Scottish Patient Safety Research Network.
Professor Flin leads a team of psychologists conducting research on human performance in high risk industries and healthcare. Her group’s projects include studies of leadership, safety climate, team skills and decision making in aviation and energy industries. In 2006, she was awarded the Roger Green Medal for Human Factors from the Royal Aeronautical Society. She is currently studying surgeons’, anaesthetists’ and nurses’ non-technical skills and safety climate in hospitals and is leading the Scottish Patient Safety Research network which was established in 2007 (www.spsrn.ac.uk). Her latest book is Safety at the Sharp End: A Guide to Non-Technical Skills (with O’Connor & Crichton, Ashgate, 2008).
Rhona Flin is being sponsored at SimTecT by Queensland Health.
Dr Peter Dieckmann 
Peter Dieckmann,
Researcher Danish Institute for Medical Simulation Copenhagen
Dr Peter Dieckmann a work and organizational psychologist, working with simulation since 1999. He has an extensive background in human factors and simulation instructor training. He works in research using simulation to investigate human factors issues and research on simulation to optimize the conduct of simulation-based training and research. Peter has published several relevant papers and book chapters. Peter is the chair of the international Simulation in Health Care (SSH) research committee and Vice-President of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM). He is currently working with the Danish Institute for Medical Simulation (DIMS) at the Copenhagen University Hospital in Herlev, Denmark.
Peter Dieckmann is being sponsored at SimTecT by the National Health Workforce Taskforce.
Professor Susan Kardong-Edgren 
Suzan Kardong-Edgren (PhD, RN)
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Washington State University
College of Nursing, Spokane, Washington, USA
Suzan (Suzie) Kardong-Edgren PhD, RN is an assistant professor of nursing at Washington State University in Spokane, Washington, USA. She recently served as one of nine simulation experts for the second joint Laerdal Medical Corporation / National League for Nursing project, the development of the Simulation Innovation Resource Center, a full service website of simulation resources and courses for nursing simulation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Simulation in Nursing, the online journal of the International Nursing Association of Clinical Simulation and Learning. Suzan serves as the project director for a national multi-arm multi-site study for Laerdal Medical Corporation and the American Heart Association, investigating better ways to ensure retention of CPR and ACLS skills. She is a member of the Education Committee for the Society of Simulation in Healthcare (SSH).
Suzan Kardong-Edgren is being sponsored at SimTecT by Laerdal.
Dr Tim Draycott 
Dr Tim Draycott
Consultant, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK
Dr Tim Draycott is a consultant Obstetrician at Southmead Hospital in Bristol where he leads the Research into Safety & Quality (RiSQ) group. They have an established record of research into the measurement of Unit based Quality Indicators and their improvement through training. The RCOG and NHS Connecting for Health are collaborating with them to make their automated Maternity Dashboard available across the UK. Tim’s main research focus is patient safety and in particular, improving outcomes through training. He introduced local intrapartum training in 2000 which has been associated with a significant improvement in perinatal outcomes - there has been a 50% decrease in the number of babies born with either a low apgar or Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy. Tim has also developed a high-fidelity model for training in the management of shoulder dystocia. Since its introduction at Southmead in 2000, there has been a demonstrated 70% reduction in foetal injuries from shoulder dystocia. Tim led one of the largest randomised studies of Simulation in Obstetrics; the SaFE Study.
Professor Alison Lee
Professor Alison Lee
Professor of Education and
Director, Centre for Research in Learning and Change
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
Alison Lee has researched and published extensively in higher and professional education, with a particular focus on doctoral education and on the changing relations between the university and the professions.
Most recently she has led research teams investigating changing health practices and their implications for health professional education. She brings discourse-analytic perspectives to bear on questions of knowledge, practice and identity in higher education.
Associate Professor Michael Buist
Conjoint Associate Professor University
of Tasmania Rural Clinical School, and
Regional Director of Medicine for North West Tasmania
Michael Buist is a leading intensive care specialist and researcher. He has held several senior Intensive Care roles in Australia within the public and private system. He is currently the Regional Director of Medicine for the North West of Tasmania in a conjoint Associate Professor role with the University of Tasmania rural clinical school in the areas of patient safety and simulation.
Michael holds degrees in medicine and surgery and a Doctorate in general medicine. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a fellow of the joint faculty of intensive care medicine and holds a graduate certificate in health economics.
Michael is a leading global expert in Adverse Events and has published extensive original studies in the field of Adverse Events and mortality rates. He is a regular speaker at major international conferences on such issues and has been awarded several grants to study the area.
Other Invited Speakers
- Michael Seropian - Co-director of the Simulation and Clinical Learning Center at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), USA.
- Peter Carver - Executive Director of the National Health Workforce Taskforce, Department of Health and Ageing
- Leonie Watterson - Chair of Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare and Director of the Simulation Division, Sydney Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre, NSW
- Robert O’Brien - Director of Medical Education, St Vincent’s Hospital Simulation Centre, Melbourne
- Margaret Bearman – Senior Lecturer, Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education (CMHSE), Monash University, Melbourne
- Gary Eves – Practice Lead, QinetiQ Consulting Pty Ltd
- Janet Chan – Intensivist, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
- Pauline Lyon - Midwifery Educator, MaCRM Faculty Queensland Health's Skills Development Centre - Centre for Healthcare Improvement
- Helen Cooke – Clinical Midwifery Consultant, NSW Pregnancy and Newborn Services Network
