[IEEE-bhpjobs] Fwd: FINAL REMINDER: CLUSTER NETWORK September 6th Meeting

[Esther Lumsdon]

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From: Harris, Matt <mharris at rti.org>
Date: Sep 1, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: FINAL REMINDER: CLUSTER NETWORK September 6th Meeting
To: "Harris, Matt" <mharris at rti.org>
Cc: "Mladsi, Scott" <smladsi at rti.org>, "Renault, Cathy" <crenault at rti.org>







Dear Colleagues,


 This is the final reminder regarding the September meeting of the
Advanced Medical Care Cluster Network that will be held on Wednesday,
September 6, 2006 from 8:00 to 9:30 AM at the RTRP office at RDU
Airport. The featured speaker will be Melanie Wright, Ph.D., assistant
professor at Duke University, who will speak on Human Factors in
Health Care: Errors, Teamwork, and Technology. Dr. Wright's bio is
provided below. As you can see, she is conducting research in areas
that have been identified as very important by our cluster members.
She also led the study recently featured in the News & Observer that
examined the relationship between the time of surgery (e.g., morning
vs afternoon) and the rate of adverse events.

If you have not already done so, please RSVP to mharris at rti.org.

Directions to RTRP can be found at:
 http://www.rtrp.org/contact%20us/directions.php

Thank you,

 Scott Mladsi
 RTI International

 Matthew Harris
 RTI International
 (919) 990-8632
 (919) 541-6221 (fax)
 mharris at rti.org





Melanie Wright, Ph.D. -- Dr. Melanie Wright has fifteen years
experience in engineering and research in the areas of human
performance, usability analysis, and human-machine system design.  She
has research interests in cognitive ergonomics in dynamic safety
critical environments such as aviation, driving, medicine, and air
traffic control.  As lead researcher in the Duke Human Simulator and
Patient Safety Center, she is currently researching issues associated
with the reduction of error in medical environments.  Areas of
interest include the effects of technology on team coordination and
the integration and use of multi-modal displays to improve human
performance.  Current research projects include (1) evaluation of
measures of situation awareness with simulated patients, (2)
comparison of interactive methods of training health care team
coordination skills, (3) development of interactive virtual
environments for health care team training, and (4) evaluation of
perioperative information presentation to support design of more
intelligent and integrated information displays.