Congratulations to Jennifer for receiving Helene Fuld Trust Scholarship.  She has been a wonderful research student in our group and we are very proud of her achievement!

A chapter describing the use of video in training was just published in a book "Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine." The authorship marks a long collaboration among Colin Mackenzie, Jake Seagull, Yan Xiao, and Peter Hu.

An analysis of videotaped consecutive 86 subclavian line placement has revealed reasons why insertions fail, a partial answer to the mystery learning process of central line placement. The analysis result was reported in a paper by our group just accepted for publication in Journal of American College of Surgeons.

The legendary Danny is back to our lab. With so many journal and tough peer reviewed conference papers under his belt, he will try to outdo himself while waiting patiently for his son, and of course finishing his grand thesis in record time.

Jeremy Martz came from Georgia Tech. Wayne Change came from UMBC. Jennifer Jarin from our own School of Nursing. Without exaggerating, they prove themselves to be the best of undergraduate researchers!! 

Yan will present the work on Coordination and Workflow of Operating Rooms: Technology Support for Collaborative Coordination. The presentation will be based on research results from previous research project with collaborators (Jake Seagull, Peter Hu, Colin Mackenzie, Young-Ju Kim, & Rick Dutton). The symposium will be part of American Psychological Association annual meeting in Boston, chaired by Dan Morrow of UIUC.

Yan will join a panel at American Medical Informatics Association on "Computerized Status Boards in Acute Care Settings; Promise and Pitfalls," in November, 2008. The panel is organized by Bob Wears of University of Florida and Imperial College London. 

"Safety in numbers: The value of counting adverse events" was the title of the editorial by Kendall and Yan in Critical Care Medicine for a French study of adverse events in intensive care units, published this month.

Ayan was the lead author for a paper describing a time-motion study on discharge rounds in Shock Trauma. The study illustrated that a little time was well spent for care coordination each day. The paper was accepted for Journal of Trauma.

Peter presented the research on physiological data collection during medevac flight as well as the recent experience in earthquake relief efforts in China. The presentation was part of a 2-day conference on innovations in surgical environment, organized by the Maryland Advanced Simulation , Training, Technology and Innovation (MASTRI) center.