Presented September 4th, 2024 at the APSF Stoelting Conference 2024 on “Transforming Anesthetic Care: A Deep Dive into Medication Errors and Opioid Safety”
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(S)
Matthew Weinger, MD, MS
As an academic anesthesiologist and human factors engineer (HFE), Dr. Weinger has been teaching and conducting research in patient safety, HFE, human centered design (HCD), medical device development and innovation, and decision making for more than 30 years. He has published more than 200 papers and been on more than 70 grants & contracts (including 15 federal projects as PI). He has given more than 250 invited presentations and received recognition for his mentoring and teaching as well as several awards for contributions to HFE and patient safety. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
Dr. Weinger designed, evaluated, implemented, and promulgated best practices and technologies to improve care quality and safety. He has been a long-time proponent of systems-based approaches to improve perioperative medication safety including advocating for continuous monitoring of patients receiving parenteral opioids, standardized drug labeling, and advanced drug displays. He was an early adopter of medical simulation and continues to be a leading researcher in simulation-based training and assessment. In his efforts to apply HFE theory and methods to health care, he sought out and disseminated cross-disciplinary learning from other industries to improve understanding, research methods, and clinical tools & processes. He has developed meaningful measures of healthcare system safety and clinician performance. For example, in the early 1990s, he and his colleagues used behavioral task analysis and workload measures to evaluate clinician workflow, workload and performance during medication administration. He introduced to healthcare the concept of the non-routine event (NRE), defined as any event that deviates from optimal or expected care for a specific patient in a specific clinical situation. His team has captured thousands of NREs across many clinical domains including many that involve medication errors. He has used HFE and human-centered design (HCD) methods to improve healthcare processes including for medication administration and decision support. He was actively involved in the design and development of the user interface of two FDA-approved parenteral infusion pumps including one that is currently on the market.
Dr. Weinger served as the Secretary and a member of the Executive Committee of the APSF from 2005 to 2020. He has also held leadership roles in the Society for Technology in Anesthesiology (STA), the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI), and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). He served on the Board on Human Systems Integration (BOHSI) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). He was a founding member of the editorial board of Simulation in Healthcare and of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Simulation Education Editorial Board.
