Steven K. Howard
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Personal Information Email Tel (650) 858-3938
Professional Overview
Administrative Appointments
- Member, Resident Selection Committee, Department of Anesthesia (1997 - present)
- Member, Resident Education Committee, Department of Anesthesia (1993 - present)
- Chair, Clinical Competence Committee, Department of Anesthesia (2011 - present)
Professional Education
| --: | Stanford, Anesthesia (1991) |
| --: | Cedars-Sinai, UCLA, Internship (1988) |
| MD: | Chicago Medical School, Medicine (1987) |
| BA: | UC Santa Barbara, Pharmacology (1983) |
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Our laboratory is active in the study of human performance of medical personnel. We are actively involved in teaching health care personnel the techniques of crisis resource management (CRM) using realistic simulation.
My research centers on the effects of sleepiness and fatigue in medical personnel. Data from our studies reveal resident physicians to be pathologically sleepy (as tested in the sleep laboratory) during normal working conditions as well as in the post on-call condition. If the same subjects are allowed to extend night time sleep by two hours for four consecutive days they return to normal states of alertness. We have evaluated the effects of sleep deprivation on clinical performance using a realistic simulator. We are currently measuring the sleep propensity and performance of health care personnel (nurses, residents and staff physicians).
Publications
- External Validation of Simulation-Based Assessments With Other Performance Measures of Third-Year Anesthesiology Residents. Simul Healthc. 2012
- Use of medical simulation to explore equipment failures and human-machine interactions in anesthesia machine pipeline supply crossover. Anesth Analg. 2010; (5): 1292-6
- Coordination patterns related to high clinical performance in a simulated anesthetic crisis. Anesth Analg. 2009; (5): 1606-15
- Adaptive coordination in cardiac anaesthesia: a study of situational changes in coordination patterns using a new observation system. Ergonomics. 2008; (8): 1153-78
- Improvement in coronary anastomosis with cardiac surgery simulation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008; (6): 1486-91
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