From July 2007 till July 2008 Paul Barach was the visiting professor of The patient Safety Center.
Paul Barach, B.Sc., MD, MPH, Maj. (ret.), is a board-certified practicing Anesthesiologist, with fellowship training in Cardiac Anesthesia, Critical Care medicine and human factors, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he trained and practiced. He founded the Center for Patient Safety and Simulation at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he was Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Patient Safety. He chaired the Jackson Memorial Hospital Patient Safety Committee and was the Medical Director for Quality for 3 years. He spent 5 years in the Army focusing on safety science, injury control, team training and medical simulation. He completed a Masters in Public Health, with emphasis on quality improvement, injury epidemiology and safety science. He is board certified in Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and has authored over 100 articles, book chapters and other reports. He has been involved in designing simulation and team training for the last 5 years, including being awarded $2 million grant to design and evaluate team training for the Department of Defense (DOD). He is lead consultant to the Department of Defense Healthcare Division /TRIcare patient safety program and helps guide the efforts on team training. This project produced TeamSTEPPSTM, AHRQ’s national standard, public domain curriculum for training health care professionals in team skills. The project was awarded the 2007 Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace by the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is a recipient of teaching awards and Provost awards from the University of Chicago, a special recognition from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and was awarded a Macy Foundation Medical Education Fellowship. He is guest editor of special series on patient safety (with Don Berwick) at the Annals of Internal Medicine, is editor (healthcare), of Journal of Simulation and Gaming, and was the editor of the lead journal Quality and Safety in Healthcare. He has chaired and co-chaired 20 national and international meetings on quality improvement, patient safety, medical education including the upcoming 2008 Harvard Quality Colloquium. He has been a visiting professor in 45 Universities, including in Japan, Australia, Israel, England, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Peru, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands. He has worked extensively with the World Health Organization, and the UK National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) in advancing patient safety and quality improvement initiatives. He is on sabbatical as visiting professor at the Center for Patient Safety, University Medical Center Utrecht.