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Hello and welcome to the Safe & Sound podcast by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland which explores the world of human factors in healthcare and patient safety. Each episode, we will try to untangle different aspects of this complicated web of human factors in healthcare, through interviews with some extraordinary guests and faculty in Ireland, and across the world. Follow us on Social Media Twitter https://twitter.com/HumanFactorsPS
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RCSI is delighted to announce that Episode 9 of our RCSI Safe and Sound Podcast featuring Professor Mike Fray, Professor of Ergonomics and Assisted Performance, Loughborough University is OUT NOW . RCSI's latest podcast episode was hosted by Mr Fardod O’Kelly, RCSI Safe & Sound Podcast Host and Senior Lecturer in Surgical Education.
Originally from Galway, Dr. Brian was a Maths and Chemistry teacher before returning to the University of Limerick to study Medicine. He graduated with honours in 2011 and went on to complete his General Medical training in University Hospital Galway. He completed his GP training on the Western GP training scheme and has a special interest medical education. Dr. Brian teaches undergraduate medical students during their GP placement from the Royal College of Surgeons where he is an Honorary Lecturer. Dr Brian is a postgraduate GP trainer with the Irish College of General Practitioners. Dr. Brian enjoys all aspects of General Practice but has a special interest in chronic disease management and men’s health. He is a regular contributor to Ireland AM and Newstalk.
Episode 7 Out Now – RCSI Safe and Sound - Liam Chadwick PhD RCSI is delighted to announce that Episode 7 of our RCSI Safe and Sound Podcast featuring Liam Chadwick PhD, Senior Lecturer, RCSI & Chief Engineer/CTO, 1Unit is OUT NOW. RCSI's latest podcast episode was hosted by Mr Fardod O’Kelly, RCSI Safe & Sound Podcast Host and Senior Lecturer in Surgical Education. Available on Spotify and Apple podcasts, we are delighted to announce that the Episode 7 is now available to listen on the below audio channels: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0Zys1Mbf7FojYB4qdFwVPw Apple Podcasts https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/safe--sound-podcast1
Season 3, Episode 6 Out Now - Dr Jessica Ryan - Best Practice in Surgical Handover RCSI is delighted to announce that Episode 6 of our Safe and Sound podcast is OUT NOW featuring Dr Jessica Ryan PhD Candidate RCSI, General Surgery HST, SH-CORE Study Coordinator. With a high number of listeners from across different countries and specialties, Season 3 will again provide a spotlight on key pillars within the ecosystem of Human Factors in Patient Safety. RCSI's latest podcast episode was hosted by Dr Fardod O’Kelly, RCSI Safe and Sound Podcast Host and Senior Lecturer in Surgical Education.
RCSI Charter Meeting Bonus Episode RCSI is delighted to announce that Episode 5, featuring Mr David Moore. RCSI Council Member, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin, Tallaght University Hospital and Blackrock Clinic Dublin, of our Safe and Sound podcast is OUT NOW . With a high number of listeners from across different countries and specialties, Season 3 will again provide a spotlight on key pillars within the ecosystem of Human Factors in Patient Safety. RCSI's latest podcast episode was hosted by Dr Fardod O’Kelly, RCSI Safe and Sound Podcast Host and Senior Lecturer in Surgical Education.
Dr. Sudipto Das completed a Bachelor’s in Technology (B.Tech) - Biotechnology (honours) from Rai Foundation Colleges, Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, Mumbai, India in 2007, followed by a M.Res – Biomedical Sciences, University of Glasgow, U.K in 2008. Subsequently, Dr. Das obtained his PhD in cancer genetics under the supervision of Prof. Raymond Stallings in 2012. He has also spent time as a visiting research fellow in VIB, K.U., Leuven, VuMC, Amsterdam and Hoshi University, Tokyo Japan. His doctoral work gave him the opportunity to develop a core expertise in the area of epigenetics focused on DNA methylation alterations and non-coding RNAs, which he further enhanced during his Post-doctoral career. This has allowed Dr. Das to obtain prestigious fellowship from organizations such as the Irish Cancer Society, obtain several awards, develop various national and international collaborations and publish highly cited peer review articles in high-impact scientific journals (including Cancer Research, Oncogene, JCI, Nat Comms, JCO, Cancer Discovery). Dr. Das’s key research focus involves application of genomics and epigenomics approaches across a several diseases especially cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases as well as heart failure, with the aim to identifying potential predictive/prognostic biomarkers and/or therapeutic targets that can ultimately aid in enhancing better patient care. His expertise has in turn allowed him to develop various international and national collaboration leading to successful funding applications from British Heart Foundation and Heart Research U.K and Japan Society for Promotion of Science. To date, Dr. Das has accrued >3.5 million euro in funding from national and international funding agencies inlcuding Research Ireland, Health Research Board, Enterprise Ireland and European Crohn's and Colitis foundation, allowing him to establish the "Epigenetics in Gastrointestinal research group". The research group primarily focusses on identifying the role of epigenetic modification as novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets in GI diseases. Dr. Das has led development and expansion of an award winning M.Sc - Technologies & Analytics in Precision medicine established in 2021 funded by the Higher Education Authority - Human Captial Iniative grant. The graduates of this programme continue to gain emplyment in leading companies such as EY, Pfizer, Grifols as well as secure prestigious PhD positions. As Vice Dean for AI and digital, connected health at RCSI, Dr. Das aims to lead the University to effectively embed AI and digital health-associated applications and concepts in research, education as well as operations/service efficiency.
Dr. Suzanne Crowe studied in TCD and graduated in Medicine in 1995. She spent the summer of 1994 as a medical student working as a researcher with the Department of Surgery in the Meath Hospital, and following entry into postgraduate training with the College of Anaesthetists in Ireland, she continued her research and writing interests. After completion of specialist training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Dr. Crowe worked as a Fellow in the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. She returned to Dublin in 2005, taking up a clinical post as Consultant Anaesthetist with a special interest in Paediatrics in Tallaght Hospital. The following year she became Clinical Lecturer in Surgery in TCD and contributed to the teaching of TCD medical students. In 2014 Dr. Crowe changed consultant post, becoming a Consultant Paediatric Intensivist and Anaesthetist in Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin, and subsequently also Senior Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics TCD. During her long association with TCD, Dr. Crowe has authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. She is President Elect of the Irish Medical Council for the term 2021-2025, the youngest incoming President in the IMC.
Niall qualified as a doctor from Trinity College, Dublin in 1993. He trained as a surgeon in Belfast and received his FRCSI in 1997. He was a trainee in cardio-thoracic surgery working as an SHO in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast before returning to Dublin where he worked as a registrar in the National Cardiac Surgery Unit in the Mater Hospital and Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin. He subsequently retrained as an airline pilot with Aer Lingus in 1999 and combined aviation with medicine by working as an Accident & Emergency doctor for six years before focusing fully on aviation. After operating as a co-pilot on both the European and Trans-Atlantic fleets, he qualified as a captain in 2010. He is currently operating out of their Manchester base on the Airbus A330 Trans-Atlantic fleet. In 2011, Niall formed Frameworkhealth Ltd, a company providing aviation-style safety training modified specifically for healthcare which draws on his thirty-five years of experience between both industries. The company has since evolved into Framework Safety Group Ltd. This project aims to share aviation’s Safety Management System blended with Human Factors and Evolutionary Psychology with healthcare and other industries in order to address the huge issue of Adverse Events, usually caused by systemic faults but often blamed on the last individual to have touched the ball. Niall aims to encourage industries, especially healthcare to adopt a Just Culture, embed a systemic Human Factors approach and empower staff, patients and their families to speak up as part of the crew. His approach is based on the premise that technology and society have evolved faster in the last century than the human brain can accommodate so we need to adapt to account for this in order to reduce the number of adverse events. He has spoken at many conferences locally, nationally and internationally on the topic. Niall has contributed articles both to specialist journals and national newspapers such as The Irish Times. He has also given interviews for national television including RTE TV News and Virgin Media and has been interviewed several times on BBC Radio. In 2016, Niall was appointed an Expert Advisor to the Northern Ireland Executive’s Dept of Health following a well received TEDx talk in Stormont’s Great Hall. Niall cycled at national level for thirteen years and at pro-am international level for several years in the early 90s and was a member of Northern Ireland’s Commonwealth Games panel. He subsequently worked as Medical Officer for both the Federation of Irish Cyclists (now Cycling Ireland) and the Ulster Cycling Federation. He also worked as a Race Doctor at international level for six years. In 2023, Niall had his first book, ‘Oops! Why Things Go Wrong’ published which explored the increasingly topical issue of error across industry and society generally and most importantly, how to address it. The book is already in it’s second print run after a higher than anticipated demand. The success of the book has led to many invitations from outside healthcare, hence Frameworkhealth’s evolution into Framework Safety Group Ltd in recognition of this broadening scope.
Prof Dara Byrne leads the development, and implementation, of simulation activities for education and training within the undergraduate and postgraduate medical curricula. Dara’s work showcases the potential for simulation to support quality improvement, protocol and process development, medical device testing, healthcare innovation, and high quality research. Prof Byrne holds an advanced certification for healthcare simulation education from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). She is Co-director of the Diploma and Masters in Healthcare Simulation and Patient Safety .
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Stephen McMahon, Irish Patients’ Association - RCSI Safe and Sound Podcast
Dr Sorcha O'Meara graduated from UCD in 2015 and quickly decided to pursue a career in Urology. Dr O'Meara is currently a specialist registrar in urology and is currently completing a PhD. Dr O'Meara has a keen interest human factors and the non-surgical skills surgeons need to succeed. Dr O'Meara lives in Dublin with her husband, son and dog and when Sorcha is not in work she enjoys swimming or hiking.
Dr Felipe Contepomi, RCSI Alumni, is an Argentine professional rugby coach who is currently the head coach of the Argentine national side. Contepomi was a rugby union footballer who played fly-half or centre; his last club was Club Newman, in the first division of the URBA championship, before signing with professional teams in Europe such as Leinster. He was a key player for Argentina, having played 15 years for the national team. Contepomi was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in November 2017 On 31 May 2007, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin conferred him with the medical degrees of MB BCh BAO (NUI) LRCP&SI. He subsequently worked in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.
Dr Claire Ashley, a burnout survivor and educator, is a GP with a degree in neuroscience and a postgraduate qualification in public health. As an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, Doctors in Distress Ambassador, and WHO Fides Influencer, she offers valuable insights on how to effectively manage stress whilst creating a successful career. Dr Ashley helps individuals combat burnout and businesses build thriving workforces. @drclaireashley / www.drclaireashley.com
Since 2016 Collette has held the position of Executive Director for the National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA). Prior to this, Collette was an Operations Manager for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), working on a programme of work in the Middle East. Collette worked for over 20 years as an accountant and management consultant, where she was responsible for change programmes across multiple sectors including banking, health insurance and the public sector in Ireland, Australia and the UK.
Dr. Aimee Gardner is the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Director of the Academy of Medical Educators at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Her work has resulted in over 120 manuscripts and earned her Best Research Paper Awards from the Academy of Management, the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), and twice from the Association for Surgical Education. Dr. Gardner is also recipient of the AMEE Miriam Friedman Ben-David Young Educator award, an international honor bestowed to individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of health professions education in a relatively short time. Dr. Gardner currently serves as President-Elect of the Association for Surgical Education.
Helen has been supporting quality improvement within the health and care system for nearly 30 years. She has led and facilitated many nationwide initiatives to improve care, including in cancer services, urgent and emergency care, services for people living with dementia and care in the community. Helen has demonstrated a constancy of purpose and resilience to stay within the system over the years that is rare in internal change agents. She has managed to keep learning, growing and delivering change. Over time, her focus has shifted from managing big programmes of change to approaches that mobilise and build energy and commitment to change on a very large scale. Helen has an ability to connect directly with thousands of frontline staff and patient leaders. She is one of the top social influencers in healthcare globally, reaching more than a million people each month through her social media connections, virtual presentations, commentaries and blogs.
Dr. Carrie Cunningham is an associateprofessor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Section head of the Massachusetts General Hospital Endocrine Surgery Unit and a senior scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment. She is the Association of Endocrine Surgeons research committee chair and executive council member and the President-elect of the Association of Academic Surgery. Her overarching research mission has been to improve the health and well-being of patients with benign and malignant endocrine-related diseases. She is the principal investigator of an NIH/NCI R-37 (R01-type merit award) award to examine the potential impact of new diagnostic technologies and personalized management strategies in patients with thyroid cancer using mathematical disease simulation modeling and an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award to develop a patient-reported instrument to assess thyroid-cancer specific quality of life.
Dr. Dale Whelehan is a behaviour scientist with a diverse range of experience comprising human capital, culture, change management, workforce experience, performance consulting, organisational behaviour, and representation and rights. Having originally trained as a physiotherapist, Dale completed a PhD exploring the impact of fatigue and sleep deprivation in healthcare workers, particularly surgeons, and has published extensively in this field. More recently, Dale was a senior human capital consultant for Deloitte Ireland where he specialised in behavioural science implementation to enable large scale organisational change. Considered an expert in the field of wellbeing, Dale is passionate about the intrinsic role work plays in fatigue and performance - and how shorter working hours can bring about radical transformation for people's health and happiness.
Professor Oscar Traynor, Director of International Surgical Training Programmes, RCSI Professor Traynor graduated from University College Dublin School of Medicine in 1974 and completed his basic and senior surgical training with RCSI. He received numerous honours as a student and trainee including the O'Farrell Gold Medal for Surgery, the McArdle Prize for Clinical Surgery and a Fogarty Foundation Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health of the United States. He was awarded the President's Prize of the Surgical Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland for his research in 1984 and was the first recipient of the RCSI Surgical Travelling Fellowship in 1985. His research into pre-neoplastic and field changes in the colon during carcinogenesis led to the granting of an MCh degree by thesis in 1986. Professor Traynor was appointed as Consultant Surgeon at St Vincent’s University Hospital in 1987. He has published his clinical data in more than 100 peer-reviewed journals and has supervised his trainees in the successful completion, presentation, and publication of their research projects.
RCSI is pleased to announce that our Safe and Sound podcast season finale “Hard to stomach: Alan O'Gorman tells his story as a patient who experienced a surgical never event” is now available to listen to on Spotify and Apple podcasts .
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