Kenneth Russell Catchpole BSc, PhD

Ken Catchpole is a human factors engineer who has spent the last fifteen years studying and improving safety and performance in acute care. His research has been primarily conducted in the UK and USA, exploring trauma, cardiac, orthopaedic, vascular, gastro-intestinal, spinal, and urological surgery. He has also contributed to accident analysis and quality improvement in the Netherlands, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Dubai, Qatar and Sao Paulo. Current projects include human-systems integration in robotic assisted surgery; communication and coordination in trauma and transplant; and work systems analysis of sterile processing; with a dozen other interests at any one time.