Speakers by Name

Name Ken Catchpole
Company Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Email ken.catchpole@cshs.org
Phone 978-659-2084
Geographic Regions All
Subject Area Human Factors
Biography Dr. Ken Catchpole is a research psychologist and human factors practitioner who seeks to understand and improve human performance in complex systems. After leading a nationwide project developing human abilities in weapon detection at UK airports, he began research in healthcare in 2003 at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, examining the mechanisms of teamwork and safety in surgery. He now works with clinicians to develop and scientifically evaluate interventions to improve performance, and has contributed to healthcare research and improvement at hospitals in the UK, Netherlands, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand.

His work with the Ferrari racing team on improving handoffs was adopted internationally by hospitals and quality improvement organisations as far away as Dubai and Sao Paulo, and was exhibited in the Science Museum in London. After working at the University of Oxford for nearly 6 years, he joined Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to embark on new projects in trauma, handoffs, teamwork, and systems redesign.

Through over 50 popular and scientific articles, keynote addresses to more than 15,000 people, and media coverage that has reached at least 30 million worldwide, he has sought to engage both clinical and non-clinical audiences in the evaluation and improvement of safety and quality in healthcare from a human-centerd perspective.
Areas of Expertise
  • Handoffs, Surgery, Trauma Care, Teamwork, Error, Quality Improvement, optimisation of surgical performance.
  • Measuring, modelling and reducing human error in surgical care.
  • Task, team, environmental and systemic contributions to error.
  • Development, implementation and evaluation of safety solutions.
  • The translation of safety expertise between industries.
  • Ethnographic, observational and data mining methods for systemic safety and quality analysis.
  • Methods for innovation and change in complex socio-technical systems • Auditory perception, localization, warning design, and 3
  • D audio simulation- Signal detection theory in image search tasks.
  • Previous TEDx Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6VuaxC0m5I
Travel I would request that travel expenses are covered.