Leading author and Senior Fellow, Dan Heath from the Duke University CASE School of Business USA,  will be the  keynote speaker at the 2014 Middle East Forum for Quality and Safety in Healthcare, to be held from April 25-27 in Doha.

The forum, to be held at the Qatar National Convention Centre, is  a collaboration between Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and US-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) — a leading organisation for health and healthcare improvement globally.

Heath, co-author of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, will also hold a lecture similarly titled, “Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard”.

At the end of the session, delegates will be able to identify the mechanics of human behaviour that could help them make an important change.

An estimated 3,000 healthcare professionals, comprising healthcare administrators, executives and senior leaders, practising physicians, patient and family advisers, as well as nurses are expected to attend the forum.

The targeted sessions are built around the conference theme, “Empowering Patient Care Improvement” and will be conducted by some of the world’s leading experts in the science of improvement in healthcare settings globally. 

“The richness and diversity of the programme for this year’s conference will prove to be inspirational for a wide group of local and regional healthcare professionals, as they will not only have an opportunity to network with like-minded individuals, but also learn the many processes and methodologies that professionals around the world have adopted to bring positive and lasting improvements in their healthcare environment,” said Dr Abdullatif al-Khal, deputy chief of Medical, Academic and Research Affairs —
Medical Education HMC.

Among other international speakers are IHI Vice President Kedar Mate and Lynne Maher, director of Innovation at Ko Awatea in New Zealand. Several of the sessions will be exciting for surgeons and practising physicians, such as a session by Dr Uma Kotagal, which will highlight management by prediction.

 

 

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