Yan
Xiao, PhD
Scientist and Consultant, Health
Human Factors and Patient Safety
Contact: Yan.Xiao.PhD
at Gmail.com
My passion is in
developing high impact innovations to improve safety and reliability of
healthcare through human factors methods and principles. I have 7 years
of operations experience as director of human factors and
patient safety science in a non-profit healthcare system in Texas, and 16 years
of academic experience as tenured full professor of anesthesiology
at University of Maryland School of Medicine.
My academic
preparation includes PhD from University of Toronto's Human Factors Doctoral
Programs (1994). With collaborators, I published 70+ peer reviewed journal
articles on human factors, patient safety, and healthcare informatics, based on
studies mostly from federally sponsored projects. I mentored 15 doctoral
students and post-doctoral fellows and have served as a human factor expert on
review panels for the US federal agencies (such as AHRQ) and patient safety
organizations (such as Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation). I am on the
editorial boards of the two leading journals in human factors (Human Factors and Journal
of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making).
I love working
together with frontline leaders and staff to improve safety and reliability of
healthcare. With clinical and administrative collaborators I developed methods
for forming high performing surgical teams, processes to improve usability
during implementation of electronic health record systems, structures to
improve infusion medication and alarms safety, models for unit-based learning,
nurse-physician communication training concepts, and concepts for accelerating
clinical expertise.
My wife and I
grew up in Western China and are married for 31 years. We live in Dallas area and have
two grown children (both born in Toronto). I
enjoy woodworking and travel, and flying as a private pilot.
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