Paul Barach

Paul is a double board-certified (Anesthesia and Critical Care), from the Massachusetts General Hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is a formally trained health services researcher, with advanced post graduate training in continuous quality improvement and medical education. Paul has more than 13 years of experience and commitment to creating and leading innovative quality programs in complex, large academic teaching hospitals and integrated healthcare systems. He was Chief Quality Officer for the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Healthcare System, Associate Dean for Patient Safety, and Founder and Director of the one the first simulation and skills training centers, the Miami Center for Patient Safety and Simulation. He was Director of the University of NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre (IRMRC) as Professor of Safety Science and Injury Prevention, and acting Head, School of Risk and Safety Sciences. He held various academic positions at the Universities of South Florida, USA; Cork, Ireland; and, is guest Professor at the Universities of Oslo and Stavanger, Norway, and was visiting professor and senior research fellow at the Utrecht Medical Center in the Netherlands. He spent 5 years in the military as a combat occupational physician, battalion physician, field hospital commander and was discharged at the rank of Major. (See http://au.linkedin.com/in/paulbarachmd)