Learning and improving together,
building a supportive culture of safety in healthcare.
United Kingdom
Dr Cristina Diaz-Navarro
Cardiff & Vale University Health Board
Dr Cristina Diaz-Navarro
Dr Cristina Diaz-Navarro is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the University Hospital of Wales. She is also the Simulation Education Lead for the Welsh School of Anaesthesia.
She has been involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education and debriefing since 2006. She has supervised the development of simulation based modules for medical and dental students as well as postgraduate multi-professional courses aimed to medical, surgical and dental teams.
She regularly teaches and presents at national and international events. Her special interests are human factors teaching and faculty training.
TALK Author, Principal Investigator and International Coordinator
Ms Rebecca Wheeler
Cardiff & Vale University Health Board
Project Manager
Ms Rebecca Wheeler
Ms Rebecca Wheeler is an experienced Organisational Development Consultant with a demonstrated history of working at a senior level within the human resources sector. The majority of her career has been in a healthcare setting.
A highly motivated and committed ILM Level 7 Executive Coach and Mentor, Rebecca adopts a coaching style approach to enable individuals to access their inner resource to move situations forward and achieve their full potential
Dr Mark Price
Dr Mark Price is a Consultant in Cardiff, Wales, since 2001. He spent his initial 9 years as a consultant in paediatric intensive care and latterly, as an adult general anaesthetist. His clinical interests lie within airway management, bariatrics, oncology and renal transplant.
He was involved with the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) since chairing the organisation of the, much enjoyed, DAS scientific meeting in Cardiff, in 2012. Later He sat on the DAS Committee and edited the DAS Newsletter until 2016, armed only with a writing style guide, the Chambers Dictionary app and Adobe.
His current interests remain within airway management and hospital patient safety processes involving innovative debriefing tools.
Dr Mark Price
Cardiff & Vale University Health Board
TALK Project Communications Lead
Cardiff & Vale University Health Board
TALK Author and Local Coordinator
Dr Andrew Hadfield
Dr Andrew Hadfield is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the University Hospital of Wales. He is one of the TALK concept authors and a member of the TALK steering group in Cardiff since 2014.
Prior to his involvement in this project he completed a Simulation Fellowship in Cardiff and has an interest in Simulation and debriefing, in particular its use in evaluating system processes.
He has experience teaching on regional, national and international simulation courses, to a wide variety of groups, including Anaesthetists, junior medical staff and dentists.
He has presented educational work at a number of international meetings.
Dr Andrew Hadfield
Professor Paul Kinnersley
Principal Investigator
Professor Paul Kinnersley
Prof Paul Kinnersley is a general practitioner in Cardiff but his main job is to be in charge of teaching Cardiff University medical students how to talk to patients: Learning how to talk. This may sound simple but students need to be experts at helping patients who are in pain or feeling ill or worried or all three!
They also need to be able to explain the diseases that patients are suffering and the treatments they will need: Smoothing the transitions.
He is also developing new teaching to help students make the change from school student to medical student and then from student to doctor.This is a big change for the students to make and they need opportunities to think about what they have learnt and what else they need to learn.
This teaching will also be helping students appreciate the qualities that make a really good doctor - and helping them become good doctors.
Cardiff University
Cardiff University
TALK Mentor
Mrs Olwen Cooper
Olwen Cooper RN BSc is a mature nurse who has enjoyed a career in the Operating Department. She has worked primarily as an anaesthetic nurse but has some experience of both surgery and recovery. Her special interest is pain management and regional anaesthesia.
Theatre has always provided her with the opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, she considers it a privilege to have been able to both learn and teach in this context. In recent years she has become part of the simulation training faculty in Cardiff.
Olwen believes within the health service that there are many lost learning opportunities in the normal day to day activities of clinical practice. She says that, TALK© as a model for debriefing, provides a valuable tool to tap into the undervalued learning resource of the colleagues with whom we work.
Mrs Olwen Cooper
Spain
University of Barcelona
Principal Investigator
Prof Jose Maria Nicolas
Professor Jose Nicolás studied medicine at the University of Navarra in Spain and specializes in Internal Medicine and Intensive care Medicine.
He directs the Institute of Medicine and Dermatology in the Hospital Clinic, which oversees a number of clinical areas including Intensive Care.
He is also the Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies in the School of Medicine, University of Barcelona. He continues to be involved in day to day educational and research activities.
With interests in Informatics, Design, and Simulation Education in the ICU, Dr Nicolas has spent several years in research and planning at his facility to provide a futuristic, patient and staff friendly ICU environment.
Prof Jose Maria Nicolas
Ms Esther Leon-Castelao
Local Coordinator and
National Strategic lead
Ms Esther Leon-Castelao
Esther León Castelao is a Registered Nurse with an interest in Critical Care both in Hospital and Pre Hospital settings. She works as an Associate Professor in the University of Barcelona where she coordinates a module within the Master Degree of Critical Care and Emergencies (MCE) She is also the President of SESSEP Spanish Simulation & Patient Safety Society.
She leads the development of a multiprofesional, non technical skills, and teamwork training program, based on CRM principles for implementing cultural change and team training with her postgraduate students in the MCE
She has been involved in postgraduate simulation and debriefing since 2008. She has always been interested in debriefing.She describes herself as an innate debriefer because curiosity and metacognition are her life drivers.
University of Barcelona
University of Barcelona
TALK Research Coordinator
Mr Lago Enjo
He is a Registered Nurse and Associate Professor in the University of Barcelona.
He leads the module on research and critical thinking within the Master in Critical Care & Emergencies, UB. He implements new initiatives to foster cultural change in the alumni, with the main aim of translating the knowledge and the simulation-based clinical settings to improve daily clinical practice.
He leads the transformation of the education paradigm at the School of Medicine (University of Barcelona), promoting and implementing new approaches in blended learning and allowing a student-centered approach in adult learning and development.
Mr Iago Enjo-Perez
Dr Francesc Fatjó
Dr Francesc Fatjó
Quality and Safety Advisor for TALK project, University of Barcelona
Dr Fatjo works as an internal Medicine Pyhsician, SCIAS-Hospital of Barcelona and is an Associate professor for the University of Barcelona, where he directs their MsC in Clinical Quality Assurance, MACA
He holds a Master's Degree in Management and Methodology of Care Quality, and a PhD in Medicine from the University of Barcelona.
He is the author of several publications in indexed journals, especially in the field of Alcoholic Dilated Cardiomyopathy and on Transplant Equipment.
University of Barcelona
Quality & Safety Advisor, TALK project
Principal Investigator
Dr Joan Ramon Alonso
Dr JR Alonso has a Master's Degree in Critical Care and Emergency, and PhD in Medicine from the University of Barcelona. He specialised in Internal Medicine at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.
He has professional experience in Intensive Care Medicine and since 2005 has worked as a Physician attached to the Emergency Department of Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.
He is a member of
- SoCMUE and SEMES, Catalan and Spanish societies of Medicine of Emergencies and Emergencies
- ESICM and SCCM, European and American societies in Intensive Medicine.
- international society WINFOCUS (World Interactive Network Focused on Critical UltraSound).
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
Dr Joan Ramon Alonso
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
Local Coordinator
Mr Miquel Sanz
Miquel Sanz is a Registered Nurse and holds a Master in Critical Care & Emergencies.
He is the Nursing Coordinator in the Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.
He also works as an Associate Professor in the University of Barcelona and a co-director of Master in Critical Care & Emergencies.
Member of SCCM American intensives society, Spanish nursing Digestive society, and SESSEP Spanish Simulation & Patient Safety Society.
He is the author of several publications, with a special interest in gastroenterology and hepatology nursing.
Mr Miquel Sanz
Dr Pedro Castro
Implementation Lead
Dr Pedro Castro
Dr. P Castro is a Senior Specialist in the Medical Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. He holds two masters and a PhD in Medicine and works as an Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona.
he has tutored Internal Medicine Residents in Hospital Clínic since 2010 and is the secretary of education committee of ICMiD in Hospital Clínic. He is also a member of the Ethical Committee of Hospital Clínic.
Member of the following Societies: SEIMC. SEMICYUC, ESICM and SCCM
His research fields are infectious diseases in critical care patients, having been awarded several competitive grants and published articles and book chapters .
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
NORWAY
Local Coordinator
Mrs Sigrun Qvindesland
She works at the Dept. of Education & Health, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway
Mrs Qvindesland has worked full-time in medical education for several years as the hospital coordinator for simulation and training at Stavanger University Hospital & SAFER Simulation Centre.
Interprofessional and in situ simulation have been her priority areas, as well as faculty development of clinical educators.
She currently leads a project in the Health West region of Norway for quality assurance and professionalization of simulation in specialist health care.
She is an Emergency Nurse with a Master's degree in Health Care Sciences, and proud to be an EU Sim instructor.
Stavanger University Hospital
Sigrun Qvindesland
Stravanger University Hospital
Principal investigator
Thomas Lindner MD
Dr Thomas Lindner MD PhD is the Director at the Regional Competence Centre for Emergency Medicine (RAKOS) in the Western Norway Regional Health Authority.
Dr. Lindner is also the medical head of the Stavanger Acute Medicine Foundation for Education and Research (SAFER).
Dr. Lindner has been a physician since 1995 and started his career as an anaesthesiologist at Stavanger University Hospital in 2001. He has been a consultant in anaesthesia since 2006 and is working as a physician in the helicopter emergency medical service at the Stavanger University Hospital.
The topic of his PhD was out of hospital cardiac arrest, and his current research is in the field of prehospital diagnostic and treatment systems
Thomas Lindner MD
