Plenary Session 2: How Medical Humanities can help Design Interprofessional Education and Practice in the Workplace and in Schools of Medicine

Date: 28 October, Saturday | Time: 8:30am - 9:30am | Venue: LT4, Gaia, Nanyang Technological University

Speaker: Prof Simon Collingwood Kitto

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Speaker Bio

Prof Simon Collingwood Kitto

Professor Kitto is a Medical Sociologist who has been working in health professions education research since 2002. He is a Visiting Fellow at LKC Medicine; Professor at the University of Ottawa's Department of Innovation in Medical Education, and Department of Surgery, and the  Director of Research in the Office of Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Invited Member - The Wilson Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; and an adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Australia. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions and senior international editor – Journal of Interprofessional Care. A key focus of his sociological research has been on ethnographically informed teamwork interventions in the workplace, with a particular emphasis on surgical and intensive care settings. Professor Kitto's research has resulted in the creation of interprofessional interventions in the form of CPD interprofessional collaboration guidelines and teamwork interventions in hospital settings. He is currently leading the creation of a Global Community of Practice for education purposes in Orthopaedic and Trauma surgery within the AO Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland.

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