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NEWS ARCHIVES

October 2011

Invited to serve on a National Board of Medical Examiners committee to create human factors engineering and
patient safety questions for national exams taken by medical students and residents


September 2011

Invited to provide a customized human factors engineering workshop to FDA-CDRH.  Attendees included clinical,
engineering, and management personnel who were looking to increase the
application of HFE to pre- and post-market review.
Silver Spring, MD


June 2011

Completion of studies commissioned by Canadian Patient Safety Institute on role of typography design in reducing look-alike
medication errors (e.g., TALLman,
bolding, reverse lettering).
Toronto, Ontario


December 2010

"Top 10 Ways to Easily Identify Human Factors Engineering Hazards" authored by Laura Lin Gosbee
and John Gosbee published in Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology: Fall 2010, Vol. 44, No. s1, pp. 17-24.
more info

HFE Workshop presented by Red Forest Consulting at University of Toronto Department of Medicine
Certificate in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement program.
Toronto, Ontario

September 2010

Red Forest Consulting invited by Canadian Patient Safety Institute to contribute to the revision of the
Canadian Root Cause Analysis Framework.
more info

Joint Commission releases 2nd Edition of the book Using Human Factors to Improve Patient Safety.
Edited by John Gosbee & Laura Lin Gosbee
more info

August 2010

Human Factors Workshop for FDA/CDRH Staff College
Silver Springs, MD

Journal article on the application of HFE to infection prevention & control appears in Critical Care Medicine.
Co-authored by Laura Lin Gosbee of Red Forest Consulting  
more info


December 2009
John Gosbee of Red Forest Consulting appears in Kent Hospital press release
about the anticipated development of
Michael J. Woods Institute

Human Factors Workshop on packaging, labeling and medication delivery systems
Food & Drug Administration
Silver Springs, MD

HFE Workshop at University of Toronto presented by Red Forest Consulting
Dept of Medicine Quality Partners Prgrm
Toronto, Ontario

August 2009
Visual differentiation of look-alike sound-alike medications.
Red Forest Consulting teams with researchers for a grant funded by
Canadian Patient Safety Institute

July 2009
Presented at University of Wisconsin
SEIPS short course on HFE & patient safety
Madison, Wisconsin

June 2009
Human Factors Engineering
& Medical Device Workshop
June 15-16, 2009
Ann Arbor, Michigan

December 2008
HFE Workshop at University of Toronto
Dept of Medicine Quality Partners Program
Toronto, Ontario

October 2008
HFE & Medical Device Workshop
Ann Arbor, Michigan

August 2008
Presented at SEIP short course at University of Wisconsin-Madison
in Madison, WI on August 18, 2008

May 2008
Presented at Patient Safety Rounds at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
in Toronto, ON on May 22, 2008

Presented at University of Toronto Dept of Medicine Quality Partners Program
in Toronto, ON on May 21, 2008

October 2007
Presenting at Mayo Human Factors Engineering Conference
in St Paul, MN on October 18, 2007

October 2007
Quoted in Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry (MDDI) article on HFE:
Catching the Human Factors Fever.  October 2007.

October 2007
FDA details the need for HFE in Device Applications and Development Process.  
See article.

May 2007
Presenting at ADVAMED-FDA
in Bethesda, MD  
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May 2007
Quoted in "ADVANCE for Radiology Tech" on MRI Safety
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March 2007  
Contributor to newly published American College of Radiology
"MR Safety Guidelines"
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March 2007
John Gosbee, Visiting Professor and Grand Rounds at Mayo Clinic.
"TRIZ and Inventions for Patient Safety"
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December 2006
Red Forest Consulting awarded subcontract to Johns Hopkins Grant
on HFE deisgn and Cardiovascular Anethesia
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December 2005
John Gosbee receives Cheers Award
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June 2005
Red Forest Consulting invited to speak at AAMI-FDA HFE & Medical Devices conference
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May 2005
Joint Commission Resources publishes
"Using Human Factors to Improve Patient Safety"
co-edited by John Gosbee & Laura Lin Gosbee
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March 2005
Red Forest Consulting presents at Johns Hopkins Webinar
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Mar 2005
Red Forest Consulting presents at FDA experts meeting on Look-alike-Sound-alike Medication Names
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2005
FDA-ISMP conference on PCA PUMP
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2003
John Gosbee receives Becton Dickenson Award from AAMI


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