Simulation in Medical Education (SiME) Seminar Series
DATE & TIME: February 4, 2009 @ 12 noon, Light lunch will be served.
LOCATION: Goodman Simulation Center, Room H3552
SPEAKER: Eduardo Salas, Ph.D.
AFFILIATION: University of Central Florida
TITLE: TURNING A TEAM OF EXPERTS INTO AN EXPERT TEAM: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE SCIENCE OF TEAMWORK AND SIMULATION.
DETAILS: Learn what the science of teamwork tells us about how to manage team functioning and what is required to promote it in healthcare. Learn how team training and simulation-based training principles create opportunities to enhance teamwork competencies and what evidence there is that it works.
EDUARDO SALAS is the University Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He also holds an appointment as Program Director for Human Systems Integration Research Department at UCF’s Institute for Simulation & Training. Previously, he was a Senior Research Psychologist and Head of the Training Technology Development Branch of NAVAIR-Orlando for 15 years. During this period, Dr. Salas served as a principal investigator for numerous R&D programs focusing on teamwork, team training, simulation-based training, decision-making under stress, learning methodologies and performance assessment.
Dr. Salas has co-authored over 300 journal articles and book chapters and has co edited 18 books. He is on/has been on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Military Psychology, Interamerican Journal of Psychology, Applied Psychology: An International Journal, International Journal of Aviation Psychology, Group Dynamics, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Resources Development Review and Journal of Organizational Behavior and is past Editor of Human Factors journal and current Associated Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology. In addition, he has edited three Special Issues (one focus on training, one on patient safety and one on decision making in complex environments) for the Human Factors journal. He has edited other Special Issues on team training and performance and training evaluation (Military Psychology), shared cognition (Journal of Organizational Behavior), and simulation and training (International Journal of Aviation Psychology). Dr. Salas has held numerous positions in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society during the past 15 years. He is the past chair of the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Technical Group and of the Training Technical Group, and served on the Executive Council. He is also very active with Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He is the past Series Editor for the Professional Practice Book Series and has served in numerous committees throughout the years.
His expertise includes helping organizations on how to foster teamwork, design and implement team training strategies, facilitate training effectiveness, manage decision making under stress, develop performance measurement tools, and design learning and simulation-based environments. He is currently working on designing tools, instructional strategies and techniques to minimize human errors in aviation, law enforcement and medical environments. He has consulted to a variety of manufacturing, pharmaceutical laboratories, industrial and governmental organizations. Dr. Salas is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (SIOP and Division’s 19, 21 & 49), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Association for Psychological Science. He received his Ph.D. degree (1984) in industrial and organizational psychology from Old Dominion University.
