Speakers
Speakers and contributors come both from the highest level, and from the ‘coal face’ in the worlds of:
- Medicine
- The military
- Sport
- Heavy industry
- Banking
- The media
- Human Factors research
- Security services
- Transport
- Patients
Speakers and Chairs in alphabetical order
- Professor ANDREW ARGENT
Director of PICU, Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa - JAMES P BAGIAN
(Invited guest) VHA Chief Patient Safety Officer, Director VA National Center for Patient Safety, former NASA astronaut - Dr GEOFF BIRD
Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology and Paediatrics, University of Pennsylvania - STEVE BOAM
Ex-Senior Engineer Toyota Japan & UK, now MD of KMandT - ROSS BRAWN
Team Principal of HONDA F1 Racing - MARTIN BROMILEY
Elaine Bromiley’s husband, airline pilot and Founder of the new and independent NHS Human Factors Advisory Group - Captain PETER BURKILL
Captain of the stricken Boeing 777 which landed at Heathrow in January 2008 - Dr ROBERTO CANESSA
Survivor of the 1972 Andes Air Disaster (‘Alive’), now Consultant Cardiologist, Uruguay - Dr JANE CARTHEY
Consultant in Human Factors - JONATHAN CHENEVIX-TRENCH
Former Chairman of Morgan Stanley International - Dr JANE COLLINS
Chief Executive, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children - Dr FELIPE CONTEPOMI
Captain flyhalf of Argentina Rugby team - voted in top 5 rugby players of 2007 - Professor SIDNEY DEKKER
World Human Factors psychology expert - Professor Sir LIAM DONALDSON
CMO and Chairman, World Alliance for Patient Safety [WHO] - Professor JUDITH ELLIS
GOSH Director of Nursing, Workforce and Education - NEIL F
Senior member of CO19 Anti Terror Team - Mr TONY GIDDINGS
Chairman for the Alliance for the Safety of Patients at the Royal College of Surgeons - Dr ALLAN GOLDMAN
Lead for Cardiac Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London - Dr CAROL HARADEN
Vice President, Institute of Health Improvement, Boston - VICTOR HERBERT
Former Dean of Instruction to the New York Fire Department. Distinguished lecturer at The City University of New York - PATRICIA HICKEY
Vice President, Cardiovascular & Critical Care Services, Boston Children’s Hospital - Captain GUY HIRST
Airline Training Captain and Human Factors Training Expert - General Sir MIKE JACKSON
Former Head of the British Army - Dr KATHY JENKINS
Kobren Family Chair for Patient Safety & Quality, Children’s Hospital of Boston - Dr UMA KOTAGAL
Vice President for Quality and Transformation, Cincinnati - Professor MARC DE LEVAL
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, visionary thinker on the role of Human Factors in surgery - Dr SALLY LEIVESLEY
Major city catastrophe expert - JON SNOW
Journalist, broadcaster and presenter of Channel 4 News - Dr JIM STEVEN
Chief Medical Officer - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - Flt Lieutenant SIMON STEVENS
Former Red Arrows Pilot - SIMON YATES
Mountaineer who cut the rope in ‘Touching the Void’
Course Director: Dr ALLAN GOLDMAN
Conference Host: Dr JANE COLLINS
Organising Committee: Dr Geoff Bird, Mr Tony Giddings, Dr Peter Laussen, Captain Guy Hirst, Professor Marc de Leval, Ms Tessa Radcliffe, I C H Events, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
RISKY BUSINESS
Friday 16th May 2008
