Rollin J "Terry" Fairbanks, MD, MS National Center for Human Factors

Rollin J “Terry” Fairbanks, MD MS is the Director of the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare and Associate Director of MedStar’s Institute for Innovation (MI2). The mission of MI2 is to catalyze innovation that advances health, and Dr. Fairbanks oversees innovation in safety and innovation in learning. Dr. Fairbanks is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University and is an attending emergency physician at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. He is a human factors/safety engineer, board certified emergency physician, private pilot, and former paramedic and EMS Medical Director who uses his background in human factors engineering/industrial systems engineering to apply the science of safety to medical systems. Dr. Fairbanks’ work is funded by the NIH, AHRQ, ONC, and several foundations; he has authored more than 100 publications and one book on healthcare safety and human factors, and is an influential speaker. He serves on the National Patient Safety Foundation Board of Governors, Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation Board of Directors, and as a Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) Senior Fellow. See Dr. Fairbanks’ full bio on www.MedicalHumanFactors.net or follow on twitter@TerryFairbanks.