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Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University

Rob is interested in understanding and untangling the dynamically changing intersection of safety, resilience and complexity in healthcare. Still in clinical practice after 48 years! Best preparation for medical studies and especially work as an ED physician was five years as a zookeeper.

Special Interests: patient safety; systemic nonlinear analysis of adverse events in healthcare (SPHERE workshop); organizational resilience in healthcare; application of complex adaptive systems principles to healthcare initiatives; application of restorative justice approaches in healthcare after harm; conflict engagement and mediation in healthcare.

Experience

  • 2016–2022
    Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University