| Today's economic challenges and the resulting impact on budgets and staff create an increased risk to patient safety. Clear, well understood and consistent practices can minimise unforeseen risks or errors, while robust reporting systems which allow positive rather than punitive lessons to be learned, can ensure that where mistakes are made they are not repeated.
Promoting and developing a safety culture is vital if our patient safety record is to be improved and sustained. This includes teamwork, leadership, the fostering of a no-blame culture, learning from adverse incidents and developing education and training linked to whole-systems approaches to patient safety improvement.
The Patient Safety Workshop, taking place 19th October 2010 as part of the Patient Safety Congress, will act as a catalyst for a benchmarking best practices in patient safety. The programme will provide delegates with all the tools and practical information necessary to deliver improvement in patient safety. |
Moderators:
Dr. Samer Ellahham, MD, FACP, FACC, FAHA, FCCP, Chief Quality Officer, Senior Consultant, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Alaa Garad, B.com, MQM, IIP, EFQM, CEO, International Performance Excellence, UAE |
Dr. Samer H. Ellahham, MD, FACP, FACC, FAHA, FCCP, Chief Quality Officer, Senior Consultant, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Samer Ellahham received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut School of Medicine in Lebanon. Dr. Ellahham completed his residency in internal medicine at the Washington Hospital Cancer Centre in Washington DC and his fellowship in cardiology at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Ellahham is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Physicians and American Heart Association. He is founding member of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. He is also an American Society of Hypertension (ASH) clinical specialist in hypertension, member of the Heart Failure Society of America, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation and Vascular Biology Working Group.
Alaa Garad, B.COM, MQM, EFQM, IIP, CEO, International Performance Excellence, IPE, UAE
In addition to leading International Performance Excellence, IPE, Mr. Garad is an Adjunct Faculty at Middlesex University in Dubai. He holds a masters degree in Quality Management and Organisational Excellence and recently he submitted hi PhD thesis in Organisational Learning and Excellence. Mr. Garad is acting as an assessor, chief examiner and juror at several national and regional quality and excellence awards such as the Dubai Quality Award, Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award, Abu Dhabi Government Award for Performance Excellence, Ras Al Khaimah Government Quality Award and King Abdul-Aziz Quality Award in Saudi Arabia. He is an active member in several professional bodies such as the Academy of Management, the International Society for Performance Improvement, the Society for Organisational Learning, the European Consortium for Learning Organisations and the American Society for Quality. He is also founding member of the Emirates Quality Association and recently he has been elected as Vice President of the Benchmarking Sub-Group at the Dubai Quality Group, UAE. |