T.H. Seldon Memorial Lecture
The IARS 2013 Annual Meeting
Advancing our Specialty through Evidence-Informed Medicine
Saturday, May 4
8:30 am – 9:30 am
Opening General Session
T.H. Seldon Memorial Lecture
Simulation – Another (Unsung) Gift to Medicine from Anesthesiology
David M. Gaba, MD
Associate Dean for Immersive and
Simulation-Based Learning and
Professor of Anesthesia
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Staff Anesthesiologist and
Co-Director,
Patient Simulation
Center of Innovation
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, California
David M. Gaba, MD holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University, and an MD from Yale University. He is Associate Dean for Immersive and Simulation-based Learning and Professor of Anesthesia (with tenure) at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has been a staff anesthesiologist at VA Palo Alto for 29 years, and is the founding director (now co-director) of its Patient Simulation Center of Innovation since 1995 – this center is now the VA SimLEARN satellite. Dr. Gaba's laboratory is a pioneer in applying organizational safety theory to health care. Dr. Gaba is the inventor of the modern full-body patient simulator and in 1990 first introduced Crew Resource Management training from aviation to healthcare. Dr. Gaba is an author on over 115 original articles and editorials, 22 book chapters, and one influential book: Crisis Management in Anesthesiology. He is a current and founding board member of both the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) and the Advanced Initiatives on Medical Simulation. In addition to serving on various journal editorial boards, Dr. Gaba is the current and founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Simulation in Healthcare, the only indexed peer-reviewed journal on simulation, published by SSH. Dr. Gaba was awarded the 2003 David M. Worthen Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the 2007 Teaching Achievement Recognition Award from the International Anesthesia Research Society, and the 2011 (inaugural) Veterans Affairs Under Secretary for Health Award for Excellence in Clinical Simulation Training, Education and Research. In his spare time he rides a short wheelbase recumbent road bicycle, plays golf and bridge, and avidly follows developments in physics and space sciences. He used to do many other interesting things including epee fencing, flying, scuba diving, rock climbing, skiing, glass blowing but is currently retired from all of those activities.
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T.H. Seldon Memorial Lecture
Established to honor Dr. “Harry” Seldon, the Anesthesia & Analgesia Editor-In-Chief for 23 years from 1954-1976.
It
became the Seldon Memorial Lecture in 1992 after Dr. Seldon’s death in 1991.