MSc in Patient Safety and Clinical Human Factors

Professor Steven Yule, MA MSc (Eng.) PhD CPsychol FRCSEd 
Programme Director and Year 3 Director, MSc in Patient Safety & Clinical Human Factors. 

Professor and Chair of Behavioural Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Director of Non-Technical Skills, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Professor Steven Yule is the Chair of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, Associate Professor at Harvard, and Director of Non-Technical Skills at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is a Human Factors scientist and organizational psychologist, having trained in Aberdeen and Birmingham. He is internationally recognized for his research on non-technical skills, patient safety, and simulation in surgery. His interests are in peer and computer assessments of surgical performance from video, safety in low and middle income contexts, surgical coaching, sabermetrics, and astronaut training for long duration spaceflight. Current funding includes grants from National Institutes for Health (NIH), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Canadian Department of National Defence. He recently returned to Scotland after eight years in Boston USA, where he served as Director of Research and Innovation at the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Web: www.edinburghsurgeryonline.com and www.notss.org Twitter: @NOTSS_Lab 

Simon Paterson-Brown
Year 1 Director, Patient Safety & Clinical Human Factors 

Retired Consultant General Surgeon; Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh; and Chairman of Patient Safety Board at the RCSEd @spbsurgery

Mr Simon Paterson-Brown is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer the University of Edinburgh.  Although originally appointed as a Consultant General Surgeon with a particular interest in upper-gastrointestinal surgery to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh in January 1994, he has pursued a strong commitment to patient safety throughout his career. He has delivered postgraduate educational programmes locally and abroad through the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) including highly successful non-technical skills (NOTSS) workshops. He is a past chairman of the RCSEd Patient Safety Board and is past President of AUGIS (Association of Upper GI Surgeons of UK and Ireland). He previously sat on the RCSEd’s Education Committee and the Specialty Advisory Group for General Surgery.

Jamie Robertson, PhD, MPH, CHSE-A
Year 2 Director, MSc in Patient Safety & Clinical Human Factors  

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Director of Innovation in Surgical Education, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Jamie Robertson is the Director of Innovation in Surgical Education in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. She is an education scientist with a focus on creating faculty development programs to promote the use of innovative teaching methodologies to improve learning and feedback for students and residents. Her funded research focuses on communication and team behaviour during high-acuity, low-frequency events for teams in acute care settings in hospitals and on long-duration space exploration missions.