Keynote Speakers
Prof. Steven Yule
Professor Steven Yule will be delivering the keynote talk 'How human factors can contribute to improvement of teams performance and patient safety' - Monday 4th November 2024
Professor Steven Yule is Chair of Behavioural Sciences at the Usher
Institute, University of Edinburgh where he leads the Surgical Sabermetrics Laboratory within the Centre for Medical Informatics. He is also Programme Director of the MSc in Patient Safety and Clinical Human Factors within Edinburgh Surgery Online, and Faculty Director of NonTechnical Skills at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Prof. Yule is an academic psychologist and human factors scientist; internationally recognized for his work in non-technical skills, patient safety, and surgical team simulation. He has extensive experience
studying team performance across industrial sectors, including healthcare, energy, transportation, space exploration, and elite athletics. Current work includes automating assessments of technical and team skills, embedding video and sensors to measure clinical expertise, and translating performance analytics from professional sports to enhance surgical performance in low, middle and high resource contexts.
Research conducted by the Surgical Sabermetrics Laboratory is funded by National Institutes for Health (NIH), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Melville Trust for Care and Cure of Cancer, United States Airforce, Johnson & Johnson Foundation, The Circulation Foundation, Vascular
Society, and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Before joining the Faculty at Univeristy of Edinburgh, Prof. Yule was Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School (2011-2022) and Director of Research, Education and Innovation at the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation, Brigham & Women’s Hosptal in Boston, USA.
Web: www.edinburghsurgeryonline.com and www.notss.org Twitter: @NOTSS_Lab
Prof. Roger Kneebone
Professor Roger Kneebone will be delivering the keynote talk 'The transformation of simulation over time' - Monday 4th November 2024
Roger is a clinician and educationalist who leads the Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Music–Imperial Centre for Performance Science. His multidisciplinary research into contextualised simulation and embodied knowledge builds on his personal experience as a surgeon and a general practitioner and his fascination with domains of expertise beyond medicine. Since 2019 he has been the fourteenth Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Roger’s book Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery was published by Penguin in 2020 (paperback edition 2021) and his fortnightly iTunes podcast Countercurrent features exploratory conversations with unconventional people whose interests and careers cross traditional boundaries. www.rogerkneebone.co.uk
Dr Claire Kilbride
MBChB, DTM, FRCEM
Dr Claire Kilbride will be delivering the keynote talk 'Simulation in Global Health Partnerships' - Tuesday 5th November 2024
Claire is a Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine and Global Health at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. After completing a tropical medicine diploma in Belgium, Claire started working with Medicine Sans Frontières. After her first two projects in Uganda and South Sudan, she returned to the UK to complete ACCS EM training in London. She then returned to MSF, working in Ethiopia, Yemen and Sierra Leone while working in emergency departments in the UK between projects. She spent two years working in Barcelona in an MSF headquarters position within the MSF Field Simulation Team. She now works with Dharura, a Global Emergency Care Partnership between the Bristol Royal Infirmary Emergency Department and Laikipia County in Kenya. Through this partnership, simulation facilitators from Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital, with support from visiting volunteers from the Bristol Royal Infirmary, run a simulation program in the regional hospital and surrounding clinics, amongst other development and quality improvement projects across the county.
Prof. Freddy Lippert
Professor Freddy Lippert will be delivering a keynote talk with Doris Ostergaard - Tuesday 5th November 2024
Freddy Lippert is International Chief Medical Officer at Falck, a global healthcare company, and chair of the European EMS Leadership. He has over 25 years of experience in emergency care. In his past position as CEO for 10 years at EMS Copenhagen, he played a key role in reforming emergency healthcare and developing an integrated dispatch solution. He is a founding member of both the European EMS Leadership and the Global Resuscitation Alliance. He has published over 200 scientific articles and advocates for using innovation and technology to enhance improve healthcare, and emphasizing that it takes a system to save a live.
Prof. Doris Østergaard
MBChB, DTM, FRCEM
Professor Doris Østergaard will be delivering a keynote talk with Freddy Lippert - Tuesday 5th November 2024
Doris is a Professor in Medical Education and Simulation at the University of Copenhagen and leader of research at the Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES), Capital Region of Denmark. Doris is an anaesthesiologist currently focusing upon developing healthcare education and simulation-based training to improve patient safety. Doris is a member of the National Council for Education of doctors in Denmark and involved in the revision of specialist training programs in Denmark. Doris Chair of a working group about Continuous Professional Development in the Scandinavian Society for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. Doris is the past chair of the simulation committee in ESAIC.