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The Anatomy of Medical Error:
Preventing Harm With
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E. Scott Geller, Ph.D. is a Senior Partner of Safety Performance Solutions, Inc.– a leading-edge organization specializing in behavior-based safety training and consulting. Dr. Geller and his partners at Safety Performance Solutions (SPS) have helped companies across the country and around the world address the human dynamics of occupational safety through flexible research-founded principles and industry-proven tools. In addition, for almost four decades, Professor E. Scott Geller has taught and conducted research as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech. In this capacity, he has been the principal investigator on 80 research grants and has authored more than 350 research articles and over 75 books or chapters addressing the development and evaluation of behavior-change interventions to improve quality of life. Dr. Geller is an Alumni Distinguished Professor, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association of Psychological Science, and the World Academy of Productivity and Quality Sciences.

Dave Johnson is a journalist, editor and researcher with more than 25 years of experience reporting on organizational safety issues. His over 500 magazine feature articles have covered topics including world-class organizational safety cultures, management systems, senior leadership for safety, behavioral safety, close calls, complacency, selling safety to executives, safety coaching and teamwork, perception surveys, risk assessment, techno stress, performance metrics, and gaining employee buy-in. Johnson has also reported on safety culture improvement efforts at NASA, the Los Alamos Testing Laboratory, and Fortune 500 corporations. In 1995, he edited Dr. E. Scott Geller’s book, The Psychology of Safety. Dave has presented research findings and issues and trends updates at scores of safety society and association conferences across the United States. He lives outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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"People-Based Patient Safety™,
A New Infection Control Method
That Really Works",
by Anita Brennan, M.S., R.N., C.F.N.P.
for Managing Infection Control magazine