6th Innovations in the Surgical Environment Conference

The 6th Innovations in the Surgical Environment Conference is an excursion into the transformation of the surgical environment as addressed by a collaboration of clinicians, scientists, hospital administrators, government, military, and healthcare industry leaders.

The ISE Conference is a day and a half dialogue with stakeholders who are working to make the patient's and surgeon's operative experience a safer one. Topics covered will include:

SAFETY & SURGERY • Perspectives from the Stakeholders: Academia, Government, Healthcare, Industry, Military

INFORMATICS • Analytics, Workflow Process, and Communications in the Perioperative Space

SMART IMAGE • Creating the Next Generation of Image-Guided Surgery

ERGONOMICS • Human Factors Effects on the Surgical Team

SIMULATION • Cognitive and Technical Training for the Surgical Team

Improved Patient Safety at the Front Lines will be the subject of the ISE Special Event - Live Videoconferences with military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq


Program Committee:

Ivan George
Gerald Moses, PhD
Adrian Park, MD

Agenda:

Thursday March 25
6:00 pm Registration / Check-in / Exhibits

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Mixer / Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres / Posters

Friday March 26

8:00 am Welcome Adrian Park, MD

8:20 am Keynote: Patient Safety

William Gunnar, MD, JD
Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Health
US Department of Veterans Affairs

9:00 am Keynote: Is the Surgeon Safe?

Adrian Park, MD
Campbell and Jeanette Plugge Professor
Chairman, MASTRI
University of Maryland School of Medicine

10:00 am Visualization

Reuben Mezrich, MD, PhD - Imaging Advances and Their Impact on Safety
Terry Yoo, PhD - Surgical Visualization: The Computer Scientist’s View
Steven Schwaitzberg, MD - Smart Image and Surgical Rehearsal
Brady Shirley, IMDS, Inc. - An Industry Innovator’s View of Surgical Visualization
CAPT James Wilkens, USN - Applying Smart Imaging: The Navy Perspective

1:20 pm Stakeholders Weigh In On Safety

COL Karl Friedl, PhD - Military Priorities for Safety
Robert Walters, JD - Patient Safety in the Context of Health Care Reform
Toby Gordon, ScD - Does Focus on Safety Fit the Academic Mission?
Ken Dobler, Ethicon Endo-Ssurgery, Inc. - Industry Leadership View of Patient and Surgeon Safety

3:20 pm Human Factors / Ergonomics

Ulrich Matern, PhD - Ergonomics and the Surgeon
Melody Carswell, PhD - Mental Workload: The Impact on Patient Safety
Ulrich Matern, PhD - Ergonomics for Improved Patient Safety
Frank Drews, PhD - Improved Perioperative Design Improves Patient Safety

7:00 pm Dinner and Keynote Address

Joseph F. O’Neil, MD, MS, MPH
Director, University of Maryland Global Health Initiatives
Former White House Sr. Management and Policy Advisor (Clinton and Bush)

Saturday March 27

7:45 am Live Videoconference - Safety: Issues from the Field - Iraq and Afghanistan

Interactive Presentation with Deployed Personnel
LTC Joseph Sniezek, MC, USA
COL Alex Stojadinovic, MC, USA
COL Ron Poropatish, MC, USA
Ltc. Todd Rasmussen, MC, USAF

8:40 am Informatics

Paul St. Jacques, MD - Ideal Data Flow: A View from Behind the BBB
Dennis Fowler, MD, PhD - What the Surgeon Must Know and When
Jonathan Gottlieb, MD - Hospital Leadership View of Information and Safety
Paul Nagy, PhD - The Clinical Data War: Numbers Drive the Tactics and Strategy

10:30 am Simulation

Mika Sinanan, MD - Does Simulation Really Enhance Patient Safety?
Neal Seymour, MD, PhD - Simulation Effects: The Surgeon’s View
Howard Champion, MD - Training for Safety: Ab Initio to Surgical Rehearsal.

12:00 pm Wrap up Adrian Park, MD