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Keynote Speakers
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Professor David Cook
Professor of Medicine and Medical Education in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Evidence-based education: Are we just spinning our wheels? Friday 11th November, 09:00 |
David A. Cook, MD, MHPE is
Dr. Cook's research interests include the theory and design of online learning and other educational technologies, the quality of medical education research methods and reporting, clinical reasoning, and assessment of clinical performance. He has developed and studied multiple online courses for residents and medical students, conducted numerous systematic reviews, and published over 220 journal articles and book chapters on medical education topics. He serves as executive secretary to local leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He and his wife Jennifer are the parents of five incredibly wonderful children.
- Professor of Medicine and Medical Education in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- Director of Education Science in the Mayo Office of Applied Scholarship and Education Science
- Research Chair for the Mayo Multidisciplinary Simulation Centre
- A practicing physician specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of complex medicine problems
- Deputy Editor for the journal Medical Education
- Editorial board member for the journal Simulation in Healthcare
- Recipient of the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Educator Award, Mayo's highest award in medical education
Dr. Cook's research interests include the theory and design of online learning and other educational technologies, the quality of medical education research methods and reporting, clinical reasoning, and assessment of clinical performance. He has developed and studied multiple online courses for residents and medical students, conducted numerous systematic reviews, and published over 220 journal articles and book chapters on medical education topics. He serves as executive secretary to local leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He and his wife Jennifer are the parents of five incredibly wonderful children.
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Professor Rachel Ellaway
Professor of Medical Education in Community Health Sciences, and Director of the Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship, University of Calgary, Canada Technology changes nothing in medical education… except for everything Friday 11th November, 12:50 |
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Dr. Rachel Ellaway is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, and Director of the Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship for the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She was the Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Planning at the Northern Ontario school of Medicine before moving to Calgary in 2015.
Dr. Ellaway is also the editor in chief of the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education (AHSE), chair of the national medical education centre director's group, and she was the creator and Maîtresse de Cérémonies of the AMEE Fringe for many years.
As an internationally acclaimed scholar her work has encompassed many aspects and debates in contemporary medical education including educational technologies, contexts, philosophy of educational science, and philosophies of equity and service. Her contributions have been recognised in many awards including the CAME Ian Hart Award fir Distinguished Contribution to Medical Education, the RCPSC Duncan Graham Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education, the AFMC President's Award for Exemplary National Leadership on Academic Medicine, and the Meridith Marks Mentorship Award.
Dr. Ellaway is also the editor in chief of the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education (AHSE), chair of the national medical education centre director's group, and she was the creator and Maîtresse de Cérémonies of the AMEE Fringe for many years.
As an internationally acclaimed scholar her work has encompassed many aspects and debates in contemporary medical education including educational technologies, contexts, philosophy of educational science, and philosophies of equity and service. Her contributions have been recognised in many awards including the CAME Ian Hart Award fir Distinguished Contribution to Medical Education, the RCPSC Duncan Graham Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education, the AFMC President's Award for Exemplary National Leadership on Academic Medicine, and the Meridith Marks Mentorship Award.
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Professor Alan Bleakley
Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities, Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine What the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences can do for a medicine curriculum Saturday 12th November, 09:10 |
Dr. Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine. He was Head of the Institute of Clinical Education Research Unit at Peninsula Medical School (Universities of Exeter and Plymouth) until the dis-aggregation of the school in 2013-14. He is a leading international figure in both medical education and medical humanities, with numerous publications including 16 academic texts.
Alan has been instrumental in helping to establish the medical humanities in medical education in the UK and internationally, particularly in Canada. He was past President of the UK Association for Medical Humanities. Alan was originally educated in Zoology and then Psychology, also training and practising psychotherapist. He lives in the far West of Cornwall, near Sennen and has been a keen surfer for nearly 60 years. He is also a widely published poet with six collections.
Alan has been instrumental in helping to establish the medical humanities in medical education in the UK and internationally, particularly in Canada. He was past President of the UK Association for Medical Humanities. Alan was originally educated in Zoology and then Psychology, also training and practising psychotherapist. He lives in the far West of Cornwall, near Sennen and has been a keen surfer for nearly 60 years. He is also a widely published poet with six collections.
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Professor Walter Eppich
Professor and Chair of RCSI SIM, the Centre for Simulation Education and Research RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland Team Communication in Healthcare: An Educational Perspective Saturday 12th November, 13:00 |
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With a background in paediatric emergency medicine, Professor Eppich used qualitative and mixed methods approaches to study topics related to interprofessional collaborative practice, team reflection, healthcare debriefing, and team adaption. He earned a PhD in Medical Education from Maastricht University. He has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He collaborates with team and organisational psychologists to study team processes both in and outside healthcare.
In 2018, he travelled to Antarctica to perform ethnographic field observations and in-depth qualitative interviews to investigate how Antarctic research teams adapt to ever-changing conditions in extreme environments. His research program seeks to delineate the contribution of workplace talk and team interaction to learning and performance.
In 2018, he travelled to Antarctica to perform ethnographic field observations and in-depth qualitative interviews to investigate how Antarctic research teams adapt to ever-changing conditions in extreme environments. His research program seeks to delineate the contribution of workplace talk and team interaction to learning and performance.
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Professor Simon Parson
Regius Professor Simon H. Parson FAS FRSB. BSc Zoology at Durham University, PhD Neuroscience at Edinburgh University, and now Regius Professor of Anatomy at Aberdeen University and President of the Anatomical Society. Conference Dinner Friday 11th November, 18:30 |
I am Lead for Anatomy at the University of Aberdeen, where we teach 1,000 undergraduate students each year in our cadaveric facility.
I am a Scottish Government Licensed Teacher of Anatomy, and am responsible for all aspects of body donation including teaching, post-graduate training and research.
My research interests are in a childhood, inherited form of motor neuron disease called spinal muscular atrophy.
I am a Scottish Government Licensed Teacher of Anatomy, and am responsible for all aspects of body donation including teaching, post-graduate training and research.
My research interests are in a childhood, inherited form of motor neuron disease called spinal muscular atrophy.