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