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Sharon Todd interviews Dr Ken Catchpole about his work in systems thinking and human factors in healthcare.

Sharon Todd chats to Dr Ken Catchpole one of the HFESA's keynote speakers for the annual conference in Tasmania Australia in December. So who is he, what does he do and what can we expect? Dr Ken Catchpole is a cognitive scientist and human factors practitioner who seeks to understand and improve human performance in complex systems. After leading a nationwide project developing human abilities in weapon detection at UK airports, he began research in healthcare in 2003 at Great Ormond S...

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Host: Sharon Todd

Guest: Dr Ken Catchpole

Topics covered

• systems thinking
• healthcare
• human performance
• cognitive science
• human factors
• complex systems

Keywords

• systems thinking
• healthcare
• human performance
• cognitive science
• human factors
• complex systems
• HFESA

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HFESA

Places: Tasmania, UK, Australia

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