Monday, 2 June 2014 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (PDT)
School of Population and Public Health, UBC Point Grey Campus
Room B151
2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
Registration and Networking: 11:30-Noon
Panel Presentation and Discussion: Noon to 1:15pm
Light refreshments will be served.
Why do medical errors occur, and what happens to patients and their families when these quality failures arise? Please join a lively panel discussion on the personal and social impact of medical errors, and explore how we can improve our health care delivery system to ensure that it can uphold its ethical imperative to do no harm.
Speakers:
Susan McIver, PhD and Robin Wyndham, authors of After the Error: Speaking Out About Patient Safety to Save Lives, winner of the Independent Publishers Award (Health and Medicine Category)
Panelists:
Stephen Pinney, MD, MEd, FRCSC (Orthopedic Surgeon, St. Mary’s Medical Center, San Francisco)
Anita Ho, PhD (Associate Professor, W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, School of Population and Public Health, UBC)
Susan McIver holds a PhD in entomology/microbiology, was a professor at the University of Toronto with appointments to the Faculty of Medicine and a department chair at the University of Guelph. Subsequently, she served as a community coroner in British Columbia. She is also the author of Medical Nightmares: The Human Face of Errors.
Robin Wyndham was a registered nurse for 34 years. She worked in neonatal intensive care, surgery, psychiatry and residential care and had a special interest in palliative care. She studied nursing at the Vancouver General Hospital and English at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Stephen Pinney is a board certified orthopaedic foot and ankle surgeon with academic interests in patient education and health policy as they pertain to quality and value. His current research focuses on the third bucket of health care—exploring strategies to deliver health care more effectively. He is presently chief of foot and ankle at the San Francisco Orthoapedic Residency program. He obtained his B.A. from Harvard University and his MD from McGill University. He completed his orthopaedic residency training and his M.Ed in adult education at UBC. He was chief of the foot and ankle service at University of California, San Francisco and recently he was Head of the Division of Distal Extremity Surgery at UBC.
Anita Ho is an Associate Professor in Bioethics at UBC and the former Director of Ethics Services at Providence Health Care. She is currently the Principal Investigator for a three-year project on supportive decision making in a diverse society, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She has also served as a public member of the Inquiry Panel C (Conduct) for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia for the past five years.
Co-sponsored by the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, Providence Health Care, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School UBC Chapter (IHI UBC)