CRISS Director:   Matthew B. Weinger, M.D.

Core Faculty:   Shilo Anders, Ph.D.;  Dan France, M.P.H., Ph.D;  Richard J. Holden, Ph.D;  Anne Miller, R.N., Ph.D.;  Laurie Novak, Ph.D.;  Neal Sanders, Ph.D.;  Jason Slagle, Ph.D.

• Human factors engineering
• Systems engineering
• Cognitive psychology
• Biomedical informatics
• Industrial engineering
• Industrial and organizational psychology
• Medical anthropology/sociology
• Implementation science
• Quality improvement

• Patient safety
• Clinical decision making
• Clinical expertise and experience
• Clinical workload and stressors
• Fatigue and sleep deprivation
• Situation awareness
• Event detection and analysis
• Medical technology design and evaluation
• Clinical workflow, efficiency, and effectiveness
• Complexity and uncertainty
• Care coordination
• Teamwork and interpersonal communication
• Risk and resilience

• Behavioral task analysis (timemotion studies)
• Cognitive task analysis
• Videoanalysis
• Structured observation and interviewing
• Ethnography
• Survey (questionnaire) methods
• Active surveillance methods
• Workload assessment
• Usabilty engineering
• Computer modeling and simulation
• Workflow and information
• Full-scale simulation

• Perioperative Medicine (Anesthesiology, Surgery, Nursing)
• Critical Care Medicine
• Hospitalist Medicine/Pediatrics
• Emergency Medicine
• Obstetrics
• First Responders
• Ambulatory Care
• Medical Home
• Patient-centered Care

• Veterans Administration Health Services Research and Development (VA HSRD) Merit Review Grant. Operating room workload and quality of care. (2/15/08-9-30/10).

• Bayley R (medical student), Weinger M, Meador S, Slovis C: Impact of ambulance crew configuration on simulation cardiac arrest resuscitation. Prehospital Emerg Care 12: 62-8, 2008.
• Rayo M (graduate student), Smith P, Weinger MB, Slagle JS: Assessing medication safety technology in the Intensive Care Unit. Proc Human Factors Ergon Society 51: 692-6, 2007.
• Oken A, Rasmussen MD (anesthesiology fellow), Slagle J, Jain S, Kuykendall T, Ordonez N (postdoctoral fellow), Weinger MB: A facilitated survey instrument captures significantly more anesthesia patient safety events than does traditional event reporting. Anesthesiology 107: 909-22, 2007.
• Dale C (medical student) Dezube R (medical student), Levin S (graduate student), France D, Weinger M. Impact of Emergency Department occupancy and patient boarding on registered nurse work patterns and subjective ratings of workload and quality (abstract). Ann Emerg Med. 50(3): S46, 2007.
• Unertl KM (masters student), Weinger MB, Johnson KB: Applying direct observation to model workflow and assess adoption. AMIA Annual Symp Proc. 794-8, 2006.
• Harris B (anesthesia resident), Weinger MB: An insidious failure of an oxygen analyzer (case report). Anesth Analg 102(5): 1468-72, 2006.
• Liang BA, Weinger MB, Suydam S (medical student): Learning from others: Legal aspects of sharing patient safety data using provider consortiums, J Patient Safety 1(2):83-9, 2005.