Presenter

Paul Barach, B.Med.Sci., MD, MPH, Maj (Ret.) is a double boarded anesthesiologist and critical care physician-scientist, senior faculty and advisor to Dean, Thomas Jefferson University. He trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Paul is an elected member of the lead honorary society the Association of University Anesthesiologists. Dr. Barach has a 25-year history of helping healthcare systems, hospitals, rethink problems and solutions with a focus on how best to implement and sustain care pathways.

He is a formally trained health services and human factors researcher, with advanced post graduate training in advanced medical education and assessment methods from the Harvard Medical School Josiah Macy Program and lean-six sigma techniques at Intermountain Healthcare. He has had additional training in epidemiology and statistics including both methodological as well as applied HTA research. Prior to that he spent 5 years in the military and was involved in team training, human factors investigations, and disaster team training and simulation work. His work has led to over $120,000,000 in federal competitive grant funding from the US NIH/AHRQ, EC FP-7, Australian NHMRC, UK NIHR and Norwegian Federal Agencies. He is founder and former head of the Miami Center for Simulation, former head of the NSW School of Risk and Safety Sciences, and served as Editor of the British Medical Journal Safety and Quality. He has published more than 300 scientific papers and 5 books, and his work has been cited more than 13600 times. (H=57). He currently serves as Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, University of Birmingham, UK; University of Queensland, Australia; National Cancer Center, Korea, and Thomas Jefferson University.