Resilient Health Care, Volume 3

Jeffrey Braithwaite, BA, MIR (Hons), MBA, DipLR, PhD, FAIM, FCHSM,FFPHRCP (UK), FAcSS (UK), is foundation director, Australian Instituteof Health Innovation; director, Centre for Healthcare Resilience andImplementation Science; and professor of health systems research, Facultyof Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia. Hisresearch examines the changing nature of health systems, attracting fundingof more than AU$85 million (?54 million, £42 million). He has contributedover 600 total publications and presented at international and nationalconferences on more than 800 occasions, including 80 keynote addresses.His research appears in journals such as the British Medical Journal, The Lancet,Social Science and Medicine, BMJ Quality and Safety and the International Journalof Quality in Health Care. He has received numerous national and internationalawards for his teaching and research. Further details are available athis Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Braithwaite. Heblogs at http://www.jeffreybraithwaite.com/new-blog/.?Robert L. Wears, MD, PhD, MS, is an emergency physician, professor ofemergency medicine at the University of Florida and visiting professor inthe Clinical Safety Research Unit at Imperial College London. His furthertraining includes a master's degree in computer science, a 1-year researchsabbatical focused on psychology and human factors in safety at the ImperialCollege, followed by a PhD in industrial safety from Mines ParisTech (EcoleNationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris). He serves on the board of directorsof the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation, and multipleeditorial boards, including Annals of Emergency Medicine, Human Factors andErgonomics, Journal of Patient Safety and International Journal of Risk and Safetyin Medicine. Wears has co-edited three books, Patient Safety in EmergencyMedicine, Resilient Health Care and The Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work, andhe is working on two more. His research interests include technical workstudies, resilience engineering and patient safety as a social movement.His research papers and commentaries have appeared in JAMA, Annals ofEmergency Medicine, Safety Science, BMJ Quality and Safety, Cognition Technologyand Work, Applied Ergonomics and Reliability Engineering and Safety Science.?Erik Hollnagel, MSc, PhD, is a professor at the Institute of Regional HealthResearch, University of Southern Denmark, chief consultant at the Centrefor Quality, Region of Southern Denmark, visiting professor at the Centre forHealthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Macquarie University,Australia, and professor emeritus at the Department of Computer Science,University of Linköping, Sweden. He has through his career worked atxii Editors universities, research centres and industries in several countries and withproblems from many domains including nuclear power generation, aerospaceand aviation, software engineering, land-based traffic and health care.His professional interests include industrial safety, resilience engineering,patient safety, accident investigation and modelling large-scale sociotechnicalsystems. He has published widely and is the author or editor of 22 books,including five books on resilience engineering, as well as a large number ofpapers and book chapters. The latest titles, from Ashgate, are Safety-I andSafety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management, Resilient Health Care, TheResilience of Everyday Clinical Work, FRAM - The Functional Resonance AnalysisMethod and Resilience Engineering in Practice: A Guidebook. Hollnagel alsocoordinates the Resilient Health Care Net (http://www.resilienthealthcare.net) and the FRAMily (http://www.functionalresonance.com).