CQPI Brown Bag Seminars

CQPI sponsors bi-monthly Brown Bag seminars. Through its partnership with the Community Academic Partnership (CAP) component of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR), CQPI is able to record and post relevant seminars online. These recorded seminars can be accessed online at the Innovations in Medical Education Video Library.


CQPI Brown Bag seminars are scheduled from 12-1pm every first and third Thursday of the month in 1045 ECB. The following are upcoming topics:

• More information coming soon.

Past Brown Bag presentations:

• November 1: What's New in Human Factors Engineering in Health Care: Debriefing of the 2012 HFES Annual Meeting
• November 15: Dr. Marlon Mundt, "Social Networks and Organizational Change in Primary Care"
• January 17: Dr. Michelle Chui, "What do Handoffs in a Community Pharmacy Look Like?"
• February 7: Dr. John Lee, "Data Exploration and Visualization"
• February 21: Anping Xie, MS, "A Participatory Ergonomics Approach to Healthcare System Redesign"
• March 7: Dr. Linsey Steege, "Measuring and modeling fatigue and performance of nurses: Implications for healthcare system design"

The following videos are currently available online:

• Good Night and Good Luck
  -Robert L. Wears, MD, MS
• Workarounds in Hospitals: Impact on Nurses and Patients
  -Jonathon Halbesleben, PhD
• Competing Approaches to Patient Safety: The Handoff Problem
  -Robert L. Wears, MD, MS
• A Human Factors Approach to Studying Medical Work
  -Matthew Weinger, MD
• Pediatric Patient Safety: Mental Workload and Violations
  -Ben-Tzion Karsh, PhD
• Human Factors Engineering Translational Research in Healthcare Information Technology
  -Ann Schoofs Hundt, PhD
• Creating Resilient IT: How the Sign-Out Sheet Shows How Clinicians Make Healthcare Work
  -Christopher Nemeth, MD
• A Manufacturer's Take on Patient Safety Anesthesia and Ventilation
  -Paul Micheli, MS; Julie Mills, MS
• In Search of Surgical Excellence: A Human Factors Approach
  -Douglas Wiegmann, PhD
• Applying a User Centered Quality Model to Healthcare Environments
  -Michael O'Neil, PhD