Caoimhe Duffy, MD, MSc, FCAI

Caoimhe C. Duffy, MD, MSc, FCAI is an anesthesiologist and safety scientist at Penn Medicine whose work focuses on airway management, human factors, perioperative safety, and simulation-based education. She is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Perelman School of Medicine. Her research examines how clinicians and teams maintain safety in high-risk clinical environments, with a particular focus on difficult airway management, emergency front-of-neck access, proactive safety behaviors, and the cognitive and team-based strategies that support safe care. She leads funded work in airway safety, virtual reality simulation, and perioperative culture change, and teaches nationally and internationally on airway management and patient safety.