Mission Statement: Promoting a Culture of Safety 

To conduct innovative research into the current and future practice of medicine; To understand the factors that can lead to iatrogenic injury, empirically study the effect of interventions on patient safety and publicly share our findings.

  Current Research:
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Are Patients at Higher Risk If Having Operations at Night, on Weekends or Holidays?

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Correlating Surgeon Safety Attitudes with Personality Characteristics

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Training Camera Navigation Skills in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

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Studying the Effect of Using a Checklist in Surgery

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Using Debriefs as a Means to Evaluate Communication During Surgery