Pamela M. Kato Speaker: Pamela M. Kato, EdM, PhD is an expert in developing interactive technologies for training and education in healthcare. Her training is in counseling and consulting psychology (Ed.M., Harvard University, 1989) and health psychology ( Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996). As a psychologist, she has experience conducting qualitative as well as quantitative scientific experiments including large multi-center randomized trials. As Senior Research at the University Medical Center Utrecht, Dr. Kato is developing a video game to teach young doctors about patient safety. In addition to general responsibilities in producing the game, her core responsibility is guiding the learning goals of the game so that improvements in knowledge and changes in behaviour among doctors can be assessed in a validation trial.
Dr. Kato was instrumental in the development and testing of the serious game, Re-Mission, at HopeLab where she was the founding president and C.E.O. She published the results of a randomized trial of Re-Mission in the journal, Pediatrics. The study took place at 34 medical centers in the United States, Canada, and Australia with 274 adolescent and young adult patients with cancer. She is interested in how new media and technologies can improve education and training in health care.

Title: Air Medic Sky 1: Improving patient safety one heartbeat at time

Short summary: Dr. Kato presented a brief history of the use of video games in healthcare followed by a demonstration of a video game she is developing for patient safety with Drs. Ian Leistikow and Prof. Dr. Cor Kalkman at the Patient Safety Center at the UMC Utrecht. The game teaches young doctors about patient safety while also training them in methods to manage their physiology so that they don't make mistakes when their work becomes overwhelming. She will also discuss preliminary plans for research on the efficacy of the video game to improve patient safety.
 
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