Auditory Alarms in Critical Care Settings: Principal Investigators

Auditory Alarms in Critical Care Settings

Introduction        

Principal Investigators

Major Projects

Alarm Publications

Collaborators

Alarm Bibliography

Research Support

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

 Yan Xiao is associate professor (tenured) of anesthesiology and information systems and a special member of faculty in the School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. Yan Xiao has a PhD in Human Factors from University of Toronto (1994). He also has MASc in Systems Engineering (1985) and BASc in Mechanical Engineering (1982). Currently he directs Human Factors and Technology Research.

   Frank Jacob Seagull is post-doctoral fellow in Human Factors & Technology Research at University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has a PhD in Human Perception and Performance from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001). He has researched human factors (HF) topics including human-computer interaction (HCI), advanced displays for aviation, and human performance in the medical domain.  Primary interest presently is applying the lessons learned in HCI, Aviation and other traditional HF domains to the medical setting to improve patient safety and medical effectiveness.

   Dr. Mackenzie received his medical degree from Aberdeen University, Scotland in 1968 and completed his training in Anesthesiology at the University of London, England. During 1975-80 he was Senior Attending Anesthesiologist at the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medicine (now known as the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center). He is Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, the Chief of Anesthesiology at the Shock Trauma Center of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Director of The National Study Center for Trauma & EMS. His interests include EMS systems, decision-making, human factors in medicine, and trauma patient resuscitation.

University of Illinois Institute of Aviation, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

  Christopher Wickens, PhD:  Christopher Wickens received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1974. He is a professor in the UIUC Department of Psychology, head of the Aviation Research Laboratory, and associate director of the Institute of Aviation. Wickens is a part-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Human Perception and Performance Group. His fields of professional interest are applied experimental psychology, attention, perception, spatial cognition, display design, and aviation psychology.

Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland

Darin K. Via, MD

  Darin Via (right, shown with Colin Mackenzie, left) is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. Shown in the picture were Drs. Mackenzie and Via during the design of simulation scenarios for the simulation study of alarms.

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