Organizing Committee Member
Paul Barach
Clinical Professor
Wayne State University School of Medicine
USA
Biography
Paul is a Clinical Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and is a practicing double board-certified physician-scientist in Anesthesiology and Critical care, from the Massachusetts General Hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Dr Barach is a leading health services and systems researcher and medical educator with an international reputation for his work investigating and contributing to systems improvement. He has particular expertise in the culture and structure of acute settings, leadership, management and change in health sector organizations, quality and safety in health care, resilient health care, accreditation and surveying processes in international context and the restructuring of health services. He is a formally trained health services researcher, with advanced post graduate training in quality improvement and lean techniques at Intermountain Healthcare, and in advanced medical education and assessment methods from the Harvard Medical School Josiah Macy Program. He has had additional training in epidemiology and statistics including both methodological as well as applied HTA research. Paul has taught and has deep experience developing processes, systems and content around systems improvement, population health, duty of care, quality improvement, human factors, patient safety and systems re-design to undergraduate/graduate and post graduate providers and managers for over 15 years in US, Europe, and Australasia. Professor Barach is well known for bringing management and leadership concepts and evidence into the clinical arena and he has published extensively (more than 200 refereed contributions, and 300 total publications, 5 books) about organizational, social, human factors, and team approaches to care. He has presented at or chaired international and national anesthesia and other conferences, workshops, symposia and meetings on more than 500 occasions, including over 60 keynote addresses. He is interested in the organization and delivery of healthcare services and in the development and application of strategies for improving healthcare quality and outcomes, guided by theories and insights from the fields of implementation science and healthcare quality improvement research. He is involved in a variety of efforts to further develop and strengthen the field of implementation science and to facilitate more effective collaborations between researchers and policy and practice leaders interested in improving healthcare delivery. Paul has advised the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank and has served as a consultant on health care reform to governments in a number of countries focused on reducing burden of NCD's working in Asia and Africa including targeted health systems strengthening and delivery of better clinical services. Theories and ideas he has helped shape, formulate or devise, and provided research findings for, are now in common use as a result of his work: TeamSTEPPS, surgical team training, human factors tools, multimethod, triangulated approaches to research, the boundary-less hospital, clinician-managers as key players in reform initiatives, fundamental principles for the governance of health systems, and interprofessional learning and culture change rather than restructuring as a more sustainable strategy for reform. He referees for 20 journals and for international health research bodies as well as for many international conferences and symposia. He publishes in the leading journals in three convergent fields and thus expresses his work at a unique intersection of organizational studies, health services research and clinical care. His books include Surgical Patient Care Improving Safety, Quality and Value, Case Studies in Patient Safety Foundations for Core Competencies, Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care Outcomes Analysis, and Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.
Research Area
Anesthesiology Critical care epidemiology statistics Surgical Patient Care Pediatric Congenital Cardiac Care