Keynote Speakers

Emily Patterson, Ph.D.

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
The Ohio State University

Emily S. Patterson, Ph.D. is a professor in the College of Medicine, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The Ohio State University. She specializes in human factors engineering, focusing on the design of automated decision support to aid cognition in complex healthcare settings.

Patterson has led federally funded research projects for AHRQ, the VA, the Air Force, the Navy, and the National Patient Safety Foundation. She has served as a scientific advisor on patient safety for organizations including The Joint Commission, the National Board of Medical Examiners, and NIST.

A member of HFES and AMIA, she is Associate Editor for the healthcare section of Human Factors and has presented invited work to the Institute of Medicine and the ACGME.

Chase Sims, M.D.

Anesthesiologist and Chair of Quality
Mayo Clinic

Charles R. Sims, III, M.D., is a board-certified anesthesiologist with subspecialty certification in critical care medicine. He serves as the Chair of Quality, Vice Chair for Safety and Quality in Anesthesiology, and Vice Chair of the Surgical Quality Subcommittee for Mayo Clinic in Rochester. As an assistant professor, he specializes in anesthesia for thoracic surgery, orthopedic surgery, spine surgery, plastic surgery, and solid-organ transplant.

Dr. Sims graduated medical school from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. He finished a fellowship in Critical Care through the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education.

Dr. Sims has clinical and translational outcomes research interests in enhanced recovery pathway development and implementation in surgery, goal-directed therapy algorithm use in complex surgery, including solid organ transplant, and quality outcomes in anesthesia and healthcare. Newer research focuses on how to recover teams after a crisis and build teamwork toward data-driven process improvement.