History


On this page you will find archived material from each of the Halifax Symposia, including:

  • Date and location information
  • Themes and learning objectives
  • Download versions of the final program
  • A complete list of speakers and presentation handouts
  • A list of the organizing committee members

Year: 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010

Halifax 9

Date: October 22-24, 2009
Location: Montreal, QC - Le Centre Sheraton Montréal
Title: The Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium 9
Theme: Human Performance and Healthcare Safety
Sub-themes:

  • Square Pegs / Round Holes
  • See 1, Do 1, Teach 1...
  • Did you see the latest?
  • "What Did You Say? What Do You Mean?"
  • But Surely I'm Competent...
  • Tell Me a Story

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Learning Objectives
  1. Summarize how individual variability and personality can impact human performance and its relation to healthcare safety.
  2. Review training and education strategies and their effect on job performance, by reflecting on traditional definitions of expertise and Cognitive Work Analysis, and considering future uses for medical simulation as an education tool.
  3. Discuss how new technologies - from other industries - can both aid and impede communication in the healthcare workplace.
  4. Distinguish communication measures in team environments resulting from individual styles, the dimensions of silence, and cultural factors.
  5. Evaluate competence and its influence at an individual, team, administrative and system level.
  6. Identify storytelling as a tool to better communicate with patients and with the public.

Speakers

Moderator: Steven Lewis
President, Access Consulting, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Moderator: Micheline Ste-Marie MD
Associate Director of Professional Services, Montréal Children’s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Quebec

Annmarie Adams PhD, MRAIC (handout)
William C. Macdonald Professor and Associate Director, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec

René Amalberti MD PhD (handout)
HAS (Haute Autorité de Santé), Saint-Denis La Plaine Cedex, France

St. Clair Armitage (handout)
PPP Project Director, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Quebec

Jeff Caird PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

Nathalie De Marcellis-Warin DEA PhD (handout)
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering, École Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Quebec

Lorie Donelle RN PhD (handout)
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Waterloo, Ontario

Stephen Duckett PhD DSc FCHSE FASSA (handout)
President and Chief Executive Officer, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta

Luc Dubé PhD (handout)
Physicien médical, DSH, Centre Hospitalier de L’Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec

Bruce Dunphy MBChB MD MEd FRCOG PhD CREI FRANZCOG (handout)
Monash IVF Medical Director, Sunnybank, Queensland, Australia

Tye Farrow (handout)
Senior Partner, Farrow Partnership Architects Inc., Toronto, Ontario

Rhona Flin BSc PhD FBPsS FRSE (handout 1, handout 2)
Professor, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, Scotland

Graeme Gidney BEng(Hons) MSt (Cantab) CEng MCIBSE (handout)
Associate Director, Buro Happold Ltd., Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Philip Hébert (handout)
Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Bioethics Consultant, and Chair of the Research Ethics Board, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

Robert Hogan PhD (handout)
President, Hogan Assessment Systems, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Clifford Hughes (handout)
Chief Executive Officer, Clinical Excellence Commission, Sydney, Australia

Kevin Lachapelle MD FRCSC FACS (handout)
Associate Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University,
Montréal, Quebec

Vincent Lam MD
Emergency Physician, Toronto East General Hospital; Author; Toronto, Ontario

Annmarie Adams PhD, MRAIC (handout)
William C. Macdonald Professor and Associate Director, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec

Lorelei Lingard PhD (handout)
Associate Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute; Lead Education Researcher, Learning Institute; Scientist, Wilson Centre for Research in Education, University Health Network; Adjunct Professor, Department of English, University of Waterloo; Toronto, Ontario

Catherine Oliver N MSc(A) (handout)
Nursing Practice Consultant and co-chair the McGill University Health Centre Patient Education Network Committee

Deb Prowse MSW LLB (handout)
Patients for Patient Safety, Calgary, Alberta

Andrea Robertson BN MSA (handout)
Vice President, Alberta Children’s Hospital and Foothills Medical Centre, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta

Bert Ruitenberg (handout)
Human Factor Specialist, International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Associations, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Blair Sadler JD (handout)
President and Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, California

Eduardo Salas PhD MS BA (handout)
Trustee Chair and Professor of Psychology, University of Central Florida; Program Director for Human Systems Integration Research Department at the Institute for Simulation & Training; Orlando, Florida

John W. Senders PhD (handout)
Consulting Scientist; Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

Linda Shohet PhD (handout)
Executive Director, Centre for Literacy of Quebec, Montréal, Québec

Pascal Singy Pr PhD (handout 1, handout 2)
Linguistics Professor and Research Center Director, Lausanne University and University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Kathleen Sutcliffe PhD (handout)
Associate Dean, Faculty of Development and Research, University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Eva Thomas BSc MD PhD (Sweden) FRCPC (handout)
Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

Laurie Thompson RN MN (handout)
Executive Director, Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Régis Vaillancourt PharmD (handout)
Director of Pharmacy, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario

Rudi van den Broek BSc MPA (handout)
Chief Project Officer and General Manager of Special Projects, Vancouver Island Health Authority, Victoria, British Columbia

Jacqueline Vischer PhD (handout)
Professeure titulaire, École de design industriel, Faculté de l’aménagement, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

John Wilson BTech MSc PhD DSc (handout)
Director of the Institute of Occupational Ergonomics and Professor of Human Factors, School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Michael Wolf PhD (handout)
Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern
University, Chicago, Illinois

David D. Woods PhD (handout)
Professor, Institute for Ergonomics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Organizing Committee

Co-chair: Jan Davies MSc MD FRCPC
Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine;
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Calgary

Co-chair: Micheline Ste-Marie MD
Associate Director of Professional Services, Montréal Children’s
Hospital, McGill University Health Centre

Ross Baker PhD
Professor, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of
Medicine, University of Toronto

Doug Cochrane MD FRCSC FAAP
Chair, British Columbia Patient Safety Task Force, Provincial
Health Services Authority

Pat Croskerry MD PhD
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie
University

Mark Daly RRT MA(Ed)
Patient Safety Coordinator, McGill University Health Centre

Philip Hassen MPH FCCHSE
Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Rob Robson MDCM FRCPC
Chief Patient Safety Officer, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Laurel Taylor PhD
Director of Operations, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Laurie Thompson RN MN
Executive Director, Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety

Jewel Buksa MBA
President, BUKSA Strategic Conference Services


Halifax 8

Date: October 23 to 25, 2008
Location: Winnipeg, MB - The Winnipeg Convention Centre
Title: The Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium 8
Theme: Healthcare and the Law
Sub-themes:

  • Inquests & Inquiries
  • Litigation and Compensation
  • Can we Regulate Safety?
  • Apologies and Adverse Outcomes
  • Responsibility & Accountability: Discussion & Debate
  • Crime and Punishment

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Copies of the Webcast Archive are available on DVD. Please email halifax@buksa.com for more information.

Learning Objectives
  1. Summarize the facets of apology and describe the impact of apology legislation on patient safety
  2. Outline the emotional, financial and workload impact of litigation on patient safety
  3. Describe the challenges in healthcare accountability relationships, the potentially conflicting points of view, and the impact of differing views on efforts to improve patient safety
  4. Explain how different legal frameworks and legal instruments aim to find the balance between demands for accountability, learning, and restoration for the patient and the health provider
  5. Identify lessons learned for healthcare and the law from international examples of inquiries and inquests, and identify their potential impact on improving patient safety and preventing future system breakdowns
  6. Describe the major points in the debate between the relative effectiveness of legal, institutional, regulatory, and individual patient-driven mechanisms to ensure responsibility and accountability in healthcare
  7. Compare and contrast examples of criminal negligence cases and identify the potential impact on improving patient safety and outcomes for systems, providers, and patients and their families
  8. Summarize current evidence related to whether or not legal mechanisms that affect patient safety are actually effective in improving patient safety

Speakers

Moderator: Steven Lewis
President, Access Consulting, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Jonathan Aleck BA MA JD PhD (handout)
Head of the Legal Services Group, Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Canberra, Australia

Pat Croskerry MD PhD (handout)
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Maura Davies BSc BEd MHSA FCCHSE
President and Chief Executive Officer, Saskatoon Health Region, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Donna Davis LPN
Patients for Patient Safety Canada, Carievale, Saskatchewan

George Derwin BA LLB (handout)
Brock Derwin Barristers & Solicitors, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Valli Elmgren RO RCLP (handout)
Managing Optician, Edmonton, Alberta

Joan Gilmour BA LLB JSM JSD (handout)
Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Ontario

William Godolphin PhD (handout)
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

Honourable Stephen Goudge BA MSc LLB QC
Commissioner, Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

Moderator: Martin Hatlie JD
President, Partnership for Patient Safety, Chicago, Illinois

Jim Hornell BA MEd
Chief Executive Officer, Cypress Health Region, Swift Current, Saskatchewan

Gale Hume MEd BA
Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Alan Katz MBChB MSc CCFP
Associate Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Family Medicine, University of Manitoba

Dennis Kendel MD FCFP
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

Sir Ian Kennedy KBE FBA LLD DSc(Hon) DM(Hon) FRCP(Hon) (handout)
Chairman, Healthcare Commission, London, United Kingdom

Justice Horace Krever BA LLB LLD
Retired Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal, Toronto, Ontario

Aaron Lazare MD (handout)
Professor, Chancellor & Dean Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts

John Lewis RN BScN (handout)
Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario

John Martland (handout)
Partner, Bennett Jones LLP, Calgary, Alberta

Alan Merry MRCS LRCP MBChB DipObst FFARACS FANZCA (handout)
University of Auckland, Auckland

Kathryn Montgomery PhD (handout)
Professor and Director, Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

André Picard
Public Health Reporter, Globe and Mail, Montréal, Quebec

Deborah E. Prowse MSW LLB

Gerald Robertson QC LLB LLM (handout)
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Rob Robson MDCM FRCPC (handout)
Chief Patient Safety Officer, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Bill Runciman MBBS PhD FRCP (handout)
Professor, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair LLB LLD QC
Court of Queens Bench, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Thoralf M. Sundt MD (handout)
Adult Cardiac Surgeon, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Trevor Theman MD FRCSC (handout)
Registrar, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Paul Thomas PhD (handout)
Duff Roblin Professor of Government, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Carl Thompson BA RN (handout)
Senior Research Fellow, Head of Programme, MSc Evidence Based Practice, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Luane Wagner (handout)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Gordon Wallace FRCPC
Director of Education, Risk Management Services, Canadian Medical Protective Association, Ottawa, Ontario

Reginald A. Watson QC
Lawyer, Balfour Moss LLP, Regina, Saskatchewan

Brent Windwick QC LLM (Cantab.) (handout)
Partner, Field Law LLP, Edmonton, Alberta

Gordon Wong QC (handout)
Chief Crown, Calgary Crown Prosecutor’s Office, Calgary, Alberta

Committee

Co-chair: Jan Davies MSc MD FRCPC
Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

Co-chair: Laurie Thompson BN MN
Executive Director, Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety

Ross Baker PhD
Professor, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Paula Beard ACP
Director of Operations, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Sharon Caughey MD FRCSC FACOG
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ottawa

Doug Cochrane MD FRCSC FAAP
Chair, British Columbia Patient Safety Task Force, Provincial Health Services Authority

Pat Croskerry MD PhD
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University

Philip Hassen MPH FCCHSE
Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Carolyn Hoffman RN MN
Director, Critical Care and Emergency, Capital Health

Rob Robson MDCM FRCPC
Chief Patient Safety Officer, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Paul Thomas PhD
Duff Roblin Professor of Government, Faculty of Law, St. John's College, University of Manitoba

Jewel Buksa MBA
President, BUKSA Strategic Conference Services


Halifax 7

Date: October 11 to 13, 2007
Location: Ottawa, ON - The Westin Ottawa Hotel
Title: Halifax 7: The Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium
Theme: Controversies in Healthcare
Sub-themes:

  • Controversies in staffing
  • Organizational controversies
  • Ignoring Evidence
  • 'Selling' safety concepts
  • When a healthcare worker is the patient

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Copies of the Webcast Archive are available on DVD. Please email halifax@buksa.com for more information.

Learning Objectives
  1. Describe global and national initiatives in patient safety, and apply concepts from these initiatives locally.
  2. Articulate organizational and staffing controversies surrounding healthcare staffing, so as to make more informed decisions in planning and operations.
  3. Explain what factors may induce culture or behaviour change, as well as the limitations of such factors in building a culture of safety.
  4. Articulate how patient and provider safety can be integrated into the design, planning and building for safety in healthcare workplaces.
  5. Recognize why healthcare professionals and administrators often do not implement evidence into practice, and identify methods to overcome this.
  6. Translate learning from the advertising industry on how to promote, or sell, safety concepts to healthcare professionals and the public.
  7. Empathize and learn from the personal experiences of patients, including those who are also healthcare workers.
  8. Synthesize the learning from each day of the Symposium, and articulate key themes and changes that can be integrated into day to day operations by participants.

Speakers

Moderator: Adrian Harewood BA
CBC Radio Ottawa

John Banja PhD (handout)
Associate Professor of Clinical Ethics, Assistant Director for Health Sciences and Clinical Ethics, Center for Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Donald Berwick MD MPP (handout)
President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Marc Bonten MD (handout)
Professor of Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Eijkman Winkler Institute for Microbiology, Inflammation & Infectious Diseases, Julius Center for Health Sciences & Primary Care, Department of Internal Medicine & Dermatology, Netherlands

Susan Brien MD MEd FRCSC (handout)
Director of Operations, Quebec, Eastern Canada & Nunavut, Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Ottawa, Ontario

Drew Dawson PhD (handout)
Director, Centre for Sleep Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia

David DeJoy PhD (handout)
Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior Director, Workplace Health Group, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

Ed Etchells MSc MD FRCPC (handout)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Director, Patient Safety Service, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario

Martin Fletcher (handout)
NHS Tayside, Tayside, Scotland

Alan Forster MD FRCPC MSc (handout1, handout 2, handout 3, handout 4, handout 5)
Scientist, Associate Professor of Medicine, OHRI, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario

Jason Frank MD MA(Ed) FRCPC (handout)
Associate Director, Office of Education, Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

Kirk Hamilton FAIA FACHA (handout)
Associate Professor of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Philip Hébert MD PhD FCFPC (handout)
Associate Professor in Family Medicine, University of Toronto; Bioethicist, Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario

Paul Hodgkin FRCGP (handout)
Chief Executive, Patient Opinion, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Charles Husak MA (handout)
Principal / Creative Director, August, Lang, & Husak, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland

Tony Kern EdD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Convergent Knowledge Solutions, LLC; Memphis, Tennessee

Robert Klitzman MD (handout)
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons and John Mailman School of Public Health; Director, Ethics, Policy and Human Rights Core, HIV Center, Columbia University, New York, New York

Gerry Marr (handout)
Chief Operating Officer, NHS Tayside, Tayside, Scotland

Hugh McKenna PhD BSc(Hons) RMN RGN RNT DipN(Lond) AdvDipEd FFN FRCSI FEANS FRCN (handout)
Dean, Faculty of Life & Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Jack Needleman PhD (handout)
Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California

Naren Patel FRSE FMedSci (handout)
Chairman, National Patient Safety Agency, NHS Tayside, Dunkeld, United Kingdom

James Reason (handout)
Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Dean Sandham MD FRCPC FRCP FACP CP&S (handout)
Dean of Medicine University of Manitoba; Head of Canadian ICU Collaborative, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Ellie Scrivens PhD (handout)
Director, Health Care Standards Unit, Innovation Centre 1, and Professor, Health Policy, Keele University, United Kingdom

Kaveh Shojania MD (handout 1, handout 2, handout 3)
Canada Research Chair in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario

Linda Shohet PhD (handout)
Executive Director of the Centre for Literacy of Quebec, Montreal, Quebec

Susan Swiggum FRCPC
Physician Risk Manager, Risk Management Services, Canadian Medical Protective Association, Ottawa, Ontario

Robyn Tamblyn RN PhD (handout)
Professor, Departments of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Gordon Wallace MD CCFP(EM) FRCPC
Director, Education, Canadian Medical Protective Association, Ottawa, Ontario

Bob Wears MD MS (handout 1, handout 2)
Professor, Health Sciences Center, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida

Committee

Co-Chair: Sharon Caughey MD FRCSC FACOG
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ottawa

Co-Chair: Jan Davies MSc MD FRCPC
Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

Homer Yang MD FRCPC
University of Ottawa

Ross Baker PhD
Professor, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Susan Brien MD MEd FRCSC
Director of Operations, Quebec, Eastern Canada & Nunavut, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Doug Cochrane MD FRCSC FAAP
Chair, British Columbia Patient Safety Task Force, Provincial Health Services Authority

Pat Croskerry MD PhD
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University

Philip Hassen MPH FCCHSE
Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Carolyn Hoffman RN MN
Director of Operations, Ontario to British Columbia, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Trevor Theman MD FRCSC
Registrar, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta

Homer Yang MD CCFP FRCPC
Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Ottawa

Jewel Buksa MBA
President, BUKSA Strategic Conference Services


Halifax 6

Date: October 19 to 21, 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC - The Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
Title: Halifax 6: The Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium
Theme: Safety Management Systems: changing the way we do things
Sub-themes:

  • Designing for Safety
  • Aspects of Change
  • Not Now, I'm Busy: Measurement for Safety
  • How Patients and Families can Effect Change

Copies of the Webcast Archive are available on DVD. Please email halifax@buksa.com for more information.

Download the Final Program

Learning Objectives
  1. Be familiar with and better understand different barriers to cultural improvement.
  2. Be knowledgeable about the methods to establish an effective safety management plan.
  3. Understand the significant differences that small changes in techniques can have on patient safety.

Speakers

Ross Baker (handout)
Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

John Banja (handout 1, handout 2)
Associate Professor of Clinical Ethics, Assistant Director for Health Sciences and Clinical Ethics, Center for Ethics, Emory University

Ted Braun (handout)
Executive Medical Director, South Health Campus, Calgary Health Region

Russell J. Brown

Jim Conway (handout)
Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Senior Consultant, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

John Cowell
Chief Executive Officer, Health Quality Council of Alberta

Lynda Cranston
President and Chief Executive Officer, Provincial Health Services Authority

Pat Croskerry (handout)
Associate Professor, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University

Sandra Devlin-Cop

Sir Liam Donaldson (handout)
Chair, World Alliance for Patient Safety; Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, United Kingdom

Jay Doucet

William Ehman

Ward Flemons (handout 1, handout 2)
Vice President, Quality, Safety and Health Information, Calgary Health Region

Sven Erik Gisvold (handout)
Professor, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St. Olav University Hospital

Philip Hassen
Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Dorothy Jones (handout 1, handout 2)
Principal Medical Officer and Director, Office of Safety and Quality in Healthcare, Department of Health, Western Australia

Beth Kiley (handout)

Christina Krause

Rob Lee (handout)
International Consultant in Human Factors and Systems Safety

Alan Maynard (handout 1, handout 2)
Professor, Department of Health Services, University of York

Margaret Murphy (handout)
Patient Advocate and Member, Steering Committee, Patients for Patient Safety Strand, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety

Dave Musson

Dianne Parker (handout)
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Manchester

Greg Powell

Stephen Pratt

Karim Qayumi

Andrea Robertson

Gerald Robertson
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta

Blair Sadler (handout)
President Emeritus, Rady Children’s Hospital; Senior Fellow, Institute for Heathcare Improvement

John Shepherd
Vice President, Clinical Quality and Safety, Vancouver Coastal Health

Sue Sheridan (handout)

Ryan Sidorchuk (handout)
Regional Patient Safety Champion, Patients for Patient Safety Strand, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety; Patient Safety Officer, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Anthony Taylor (handout)
Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety, Fraser Health Authority

Trevor Theman
Registrar, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta

Charles Vincent
Smith and Nephew Professor of Clinical Safety Research, Department of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics, Imperial College London

Bob Wears (handout)
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida

Western Node (handout)

Ontario Node (handout)

Québec Node (handout)

Atlantic Node (handout)

Committee

Co-Chair: Jan Davies MSc MD FRCPC
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

Co-Chair: Trevor Theman MD FRCPC
Registrar, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta

Norma J. Brown MSc
Director of Operations, Health Quality Council of Alberta

John Cowell MD FRCPC
Chief Executive Officer, Health Quality Council of Alberta

Ward Flemons MD FRCPC
Vice President, Quality, Safety and Health Information, Calgary Health Region

Carolyn Hoffman RN MN
Director of Operations (BC to Ontario), Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Donna Towers MHSA CHE
Vice President and Chief Liaison Officer, Capital Health

Doug Cochrane MD FRCSC FAAP
Chair, British Columbia Patient Safety Task Force

John Shepherd MD FRCPC
Vice President, Clinical Quality and Safety, Vancouver Coastal Health

Georgene Miller
Corporate Director, Medical Affairs, Quality, Safety and Risk Management, Provincial Health Services Authority

Jewel Buksa MBA
President, BUKSA Strategic Conference Services


Halifax 5

Date: October 20 to 22, 2005
Location: Calgary, AB - The Westin Calgary
Title: Halifax 5: The Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium
Theme: Advancing the Culture of Safety
Sub-themes:

  • Change management and leadership
  • Asking the right questions: reporting and databases
  • Leadership, reporting and the law

Copies of the Webcast Archive are available on DVD. Please email halifax@buksa.com for more information.

Download the Final Program

Learning Objectives
  1. Describe global and national initiatives in patient safety, and apply concepts from these initiatives locally.
  2. Explain what is meant by safety management systems.
  3. Translate experiences from aviation and other industries on safety management systems to healthcare.
  4. Articulate how patient and provider safety and well being can be integrated into the planning and building of hospitals and healthcare institutions.
  5. Cite specific examples of principles to employ and potential pitfalls in designing for safety.
  6. Recognize the psychological, professional, legal and societal forces that hinder change and improvement.
  7. Identify opportunities for and the benefits of healthcare organizations/ professionals partnering with patients and families to effect change.
  8. Describe the key measures of system safety/change.
  9. Evaluate whether or not changes have been made and care is safer.

Speakers

Jim Conway (handout)
Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Senior Consultant, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Jack Davis
President and Chief Executive Officer, Calgary Health Region

Ward Flemons (handout)
Vice President, Quality, Safety and Health Information, Calgary Health Region

Rhona Flin (handout)
Professor, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen

Sven Erik Gisvold (handout)
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St. Olav University Hospital, Norway

Bob Helmreich (handout)
Professor and Director, Department of Psychology, University of Texas

The Honourable Horace Krever
Retired Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal

Rob Lee (handout)
International Consultant in Human Factors and Systems Safety

Julie Morath (handout)
Chief Operating Officer, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

The Honourable Virgil Moshansky (handout)
Retired Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta

André Picard
Public Health Reporter, The Globe and Mail

Stavros Prineas (handout)
Specialist Anesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Nepean Hospital, Australia

James Reason (handout)
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Manchester

Rob Robson (handout)
Director of Patient Safety, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair (handout)
Court of Queens Bench, Province of Manitoba

David Sless (handout)
Director, Communication Research Institute of Australia

Bob Wears (handout)
Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida

Sheila Weatherill
President and Chief Executive Officer, Capital Health (Edmonton)

Heather Wellington (handout)
Consultant, Phillips Fox

Ron Westrum (handout)
Professor, Departments of Sociology and Technology Studies, Eastern Michigan University

Committee

Co-Chair: Jan Davies MSc MD FRCPC
University of Calgary

Co-Chair: Trevor Theman MD FRCPC
Capital Health

Norma Brown MSc
Health Quality Council of Alberta

Robert (Bob) Burns BSc MD
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta

John Cowell MSc MD FRCPC
Health Quality Council of Alberta

Ward Flemons MD FRCPC
Calgary Health Region

Carolyn Hoffman RN MN
Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Bob Johnston MD CM
Calgary Health Region

Donna Towers MHSA CHE
Capital Health

Jewel Buksa MBA
BUKSA Strategic Conference Services


Halifax 4

Date: October 14 to 16, 2004
Location: Edmonton, AB - The Westin Edmonton
Title: Halifax 4: The Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium
Theme: Building a Culture of Safety
Sub-themes:

  • Electronic health records
  • Exploring the edge of the safety envelope
  • Learning from medical accidents and close calls

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Learning Objectives
  1. For delegates to gain a better understanding of health system errors.
  2. For healthcare professionals to better understand, influence and implement policies and practices that contribute to improved patient safety.

Speakers

Trevor Theman, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta and Pat Crosskerry, Dalhousie University
Opening Remarks

James Bagian, Director, US Veterans Affairs National Centre for Patient Safety
Building a Culture of Safety

Peter Norton, Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary and Ross Baker, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Canada's Patient Safety Record: The Results of the Canadian Adverse Events Study

John Wade, Chair, Founding Board, Canadian Patient Safety Institute
The Latest From the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI)

Denis Protti, Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria
International Perspectives on Electronic Health Records

Tom Rosenal, Medical Leader, Clinical Informatics, Calgary Health Region
The Value of Patient Care Information

Donna Strating, Chief Information Officer, Capital Health
The Regional Approach

Drew Dawson, Director, Centre for Sleep Research, Australia
Fatigue Management (Breakout)

Stavros Prineas, Specialist Anaesthetist, Nepean Hospital, Australia
Safety-Critical Communication Skills (Breakout)

Pat Croskerry, Clinical Consultant in Patient Safety-CDHA, Dalhousie University
Decision-Making in Healthcare (Breakout)

René Amalberti, Medicine Chef des Services, Ministère de la Défense, France
Understanding Violations and Boundaries

Patricia Marck, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta
Introduction to the Health System as an Ecosystem

Bob Helmreich, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
The Team

David Musson, Member of the University of Texas Human Factors Project, John Cowell, CEO of the Health Quality Council of Alberta and Bruce MacLeod, Deputy Regional Clinical Department Head of Emergency Medicine, Calgary Health Region (Moderators)

Public Forum

Brian Postl, Chief Executive Officer, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Learning from Medical Accidents and Close Calls - Winnipeg

Julie Morath, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Nurse Executive, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Learning from Medical Accidents and Close Calls - Minnesota

Michele Lahey, Chief Operating Officer, University of Alberta Hospital and Stollery Children’s Hospital, Capital Health
Learning from Medical Accidents and Close Calls - Edmonton

Bob Wears, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida and Ward Flemons, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary (Rapporteurs)
International and Local Perspectives

Committee

Trevor Theman MD FRCSC (Committee Chair)
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta

Norma Brown MSc
Health Quality Council of Alberta

Robert (Bob) Burns BSc MD
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta

John Cowell MSc MD FRCPC
Health Quality Council of Alberta

Jan Davies MSc MD FRCPC
University of Calgary

Ward Flemons MD FRCPC
Calgary Health Region

Ken Gardener MD CCFP FCFP
Capital Health

Bob Johnston MD CM
Calgary Health Region

Donna Towers MHSA CHE
Capital Health

Jewel Buksa MBA
BUKSA Strategic Conference Services


Halifax 3

Date: October 17 to 19, 2003
Location: Halifax, NS - Pier 21
Title: The Third Halifax Symposium on Healthcare Safety
Theme: From Theory to Reality
Sub-themes:

  • Working together
  • Medication errors
  • A public meeting on healthcare safety
  • Lessons from other domains: planes, trains, automobiles and oil rigs
  • Patient safety across the continuum of care
  • Taking the message to the masses
  • Looking forward

Speakers

Lucien Leape
How the restructuring of healthcare will require everyone on board

Trevor Theman
Collecting information on personnel problems

John Vinen
Collecting information on system problems

James Reason
Person versus system approaches

David U
Medication safety and ISMP Canada

Patricia Lefebvre
A survey of hospital pharmacy safety practices

Norm Buckley
Trouble in the OR

Walter Rosser
Problems in primary care

Lucien Leape
Errors in healthcare: the facts and the fiction

Albert Wu
What to ask, what to do

Robert Buckman
Why it's OK to ask

Robert Helmreich
Planes

Jeff Caird
Cars and trains

Mark Fleming
Oil rigs

Mark Graber
Diagnostic error

Rene Amalberti
Normal and abnormal violations

Alan Forster
After the hospital

Denis Roy
A hospital CEO's perspective

Pat Croskerry
Introducing safety concepts to undergraduates and residents

Ian Couper
Preaching to the converted

Robert Buckman
How to break bad news (Seminar)

Conrad Fernandez
Pediatric issues (Seminar)

Marc Shapiro
Critical incident analysis

Steve Small
The past, present and future

Ross Baker
The Canadian errors in healthcare safety

John Wade
A Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Tom Ward
Perspective from a provincial Deputy Minister of Health: 'Old Think, New Think'

Robert Buckman, Moderator
Roundtable with the experts

Bob Wears
Closing Remarks

Committee

Sam Campbell MB BCh
Dalhousie University

Pat Croskerry MD PhD
Dalhousie University

Jan Davies MSc MD FRCPC
University of Calgary

Beth Kiley BSc BN RN
Capital District Health Authority

Sherri Lamont
Capital District Health Authority

Pierrette Leonard
APR Public and Media Relations

Frances Moriarty MD
Dalhousie University

Bonnie Salsman BSc (Pharm) FCSHP
Pharmacy and Management Consultant


Halifax 2

Date: October 18 to 20, 2002
Location: Halifax, NS - Dalhousie University
Title: The Second Halifax Symposium on Healthcare Error
Theme: Personal Responsibility in Adverse Outcomes
Sub-themes:

  • The psychological reactions to adverse outcomes
  • The psychological basis of behaviours leading to adverse outcomes
  • The response to unsafe acts
  • Solutions to problems

Speakers

Richard Cook
State of the art

Andrew Lynk
Madeleine's death: the events

Georgina Hunter
Madeleine's death: her mother

Dave Musson
The impact of errors on practitioners' behaviour

Albert Wu
Reflection

Larry Hettinger
"How could they do this to me?"

Anthony Grasha
"I'm a professional - this won't affect me!"

Pat Croskerry
"What was I thinking?"

Mark D. Alicke
"Your 're to blame for this, you know!"

David Rosenbloom
The life-cycle of medication errors (Workshop)

Pat Croskerry
Avoiding diagnostic errors (Workshop)

John Vinen
Incident reporting (Workshop)

Jan Davies
Investigating adverse outcomes (Workshop)

James Reason
Overview: unsafe acts

Jan Davies
The department head / administrator

Merrill Pauls
The ethics of disclosure

Nancy Milford
The hospital's point of view

Sharon Casson
The medical licensing College

Leona Telfer
The nursing licensing College

Martine Gagnon
The CMPA

Roy Stephenson
The legal point of view

Robert Buckman
"I'm afraid I have some bad news."

Charles Vincent
"What can we do to help?"

David Rosenbloom and Margaret Doma
Setting up disclosure policies (Workshop)

Albert Wu
Training healthcare workers to speak with patients/families (Workshop)

Doug Sinclair
Handling complaints

Robert Buckman
Dinner Speaker

Charles Cunningham
Patient-centred care processes that enhance patient safety

Gail Powell-Cope
Slips and falls

Sam Campbell
A Patient Safety Advisory Group

John Bohnen
An accountability framework for physicians

Alan Goldbloom
Changing hospital culture

John Wade
Canadian initiatives

Bob Wears
Closing remarks

Committee

Sam Campbell MB BCh
Dalhousie University

Pat Croskerry MD PhD
Dalhousie University

Jan Davies MSc MD FRCPC
University of Calgary

Beth Kiley BSc BN RN
Capital District Health Authority

Sherri Lamont
Capital District Health Authority

David Rosenbloom PharmD
Hamilton Health Sciences


Halifax 1

Date: August 11 to 12, 2001
Location: Halifax, NS - Dalhousie University
Title: Medical Error Symposium
Theme: Frontline Approaches in Clinical Practice
Sub-theme: Risk and Safety in Medicine

Speakers

Charles Vincent
Risk and Safety in Medicine

George Kovacs
Procedural Error

Pat Croskerry
Cognitive Error

Allan Abbass
Affective Error

John Vinen
Monitoring and Measuring Error

Jan Davies
Error/Safety Movement in Anaesthesia

Steve Workman
Medicine (Breakout)

Joe Burley
Psychiatry (Breakout)

Sam Campbell
General Practice (Breakout)

Robert Wears
Emergency Medicine (Breakout)

Conrad Fernandez
Paediatrics (Breakout)

Barbara Parish
Surgery (Breakout)

Philip Hebert
Ethical Aspects of Error

William Beilby
Professional Liability for Physicians in Canada

Albert Wu
Error and the Provider

John Gosbee
Human Factors Engineering

Shawna Perry
Anatomy of an Error

Jan Davies
The Winnipeg Inquiry

Robert Wears
Beyond Error

Committee

Director: Pat Croskerry MD
Dalhousie University

Chairman: Sam Campbell MB BCh
Dalhousie University

Coordinator: Sherri Lamont
Dartmouth General Hospital

Cheryl Barker RN
Hants Community Hospital

Lillian Coshell RN
Cobequid Multi-Service Centre

Valerie Eden RN
Dartmouth General Hospital

Beth Kiley RN
Capital District Health Authority

Patty Wren MD
IWK Health Centre

What to Expect at the Symposia

The Halifax Series has evolved into Canada's flagship event in healthcare safety. Participants from previous meetings have consistently remarked about the meeting being innovative, cutting edge, and intellectually challenging.

The meeting is different by design. In developing the early programs, the founders of the Halifax Series sought inspiration within healthcare and in other industries around the world for different ideas, knowledge, skills and attitudes which would present opportunities for the improvement of healthcare safety in Canada. The Halifax Series Organizing Committee has diligently continued this approach.



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