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Moderators
Safer Better Healthcare By All For All
Moderators

Prof. Thomas Jun
Ph.D C.ErgHF FHEA
Thomas Jun is a Professor of Sociotechnical System Design at Loughborough University. He has been promoting systems thinking to safety incident investigation through award-winning animation/film production (www.systemsthinkinglab.com) and recently involved in training over 800 patient safety specialists in the NHS on system safety/resilience engineering. He is currently leading an NIHR-funded research project developing human-centred AI for people with learning disabilities and multiple long-term conditions (2022-25), DECODE.

Prof. Susan Hallbeck
PhD, PE, CPE, FHFES, FIEA
Professor Susan Hallbeck is the Scientific Director of Human Factors Engineering and Professor of Health Care Systems Engineering in the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Healthcare Delivery and a Consultant in Health Care Delivery Research, as well as a Consultant in Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Professor Hallbeck is a Past-President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is currently the President of the Society for Surgical Ergonomics. Professor Hallbeck is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Certified Professional Ergonomist.

Prof. Melissa Baysari
PhD CPE FAIDH
Professor Melissa Baysari leads the Digital Health Human Factors Group at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her team apply human factors methods and approaches to evaluate and optimise health technologies to support healthcare work and improve patient safety. Melissa’s work seeks to understand and improve the interactions between healthcare providers, health technologies and organisations, and she is particularly interested in evaluating and ensuring the usability and safety of health technologies, and minimising unintended consequences following implementation. She has published widely (>175 publications) in the areas of medication safety, electronic medical record systems and decision support, she has secured over AUD $25Mill in research funding, and her research has resulted in a number of significant changes being made to clinical information systems, as well as to hospital policy and work practices.
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