Stanford School of Medicine
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David M. Gaba, M.D.

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Profile: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Gaba/

Alternate Contact:
Name: Sandra J. Feaster, RN, MS, MBA
Title: Program Director – CISL
Email: sfeaster@stanford.edu
Phone: 650 862 5807

Academic Appointments
Appointment
Organization
Professor
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
 
Honors & Awards
Title
Organization
Date(s)
IARS Teaching Achievement Award
International Anesthesia Research Society
2007
David M. Worthen Award
Department of Veterans Affairs
2003
SEA/Duke Award for Innovation in Anesthesia Education
Society for Education in Anesthesia
October, 2003
Administrative Appointments
Title
Organization
Start Year
End Year
Associate Dean for Immersive and Simulation-based Learning
Stanford University School of Medicine
2004
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Professional Education
Degree
Awarding Institution
Field of Study
Year of Graduation
MD
Yale School of Medicine
Medicine
1980
BS Engg
Northwestern University
Biomedical Engineering
1976
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Research Interests

Improving patient safety through a variety of means, including applying theories of organizational safety to health care; developing and testing the application of immersive and simulation-based techniques for education, training, performance assessment, and research, measuring and intervening in hospital safety cultures

Publications
  • Cooper JB, Blum RH, Carroll JS, Dershwitz M, Feinstein DM, Gaba DM, Morey JC, Singla AK "Differences in safety climate among hospital anesthesia departments and the effect of a realistic simulation-based training program." Anesth Analg 2008; 106: 2: 574-84, table of contents More »
  • Hartmann CW, Rosen AK, Meterko M, Shokeen P, Zhao S, Singer S, Falwell A, Gaba DM "An Overview of Patient Safety Climate in the VA." Health Serv Res 2008; More »
  • Manser T, Howard SK, Gaba DM "Adaptive coordination in cardiac anaesthesia: A study of situational changes in coordination patterns using a new observation system." Ergonomics 2008; 1-26 More »
  • Rosen AK, Gaba DM, Meterko M, Shokeen P, Singer S, Zhao S, Labonte A, Falwell A "Recruitment of hospitals for a safety climate study: facilitators and barriers." Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 2008; 34: 5: 275-84 More »
  • Gaba DM, Singer SJ, Rosen AK "Safety culture: Is the "unit" the right "unit of analysis"?" Crit Care Med 2007; 35: 1: 314-316 More »
68 publications:   view full list

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