Tim Shaw is Director of the Workforce Education and Development Group in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Sydney. He has managed a number of substantial Health workforce educational research and development projects in Australia including: the development of the Australian National Patient Safety Education Framework; Basic Surgical training online for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons; the development of the Cancer Learning Knowledge portal for the Commonwealth Government; the development of the ISQUA Knowledge Portal for the International Society for Quality in Healthcare; and the use of new technologies to improve event reporting amongst junior doctors at Brigham and Mass General Hospitals in Boston. He was a contributor to the WHO Patient Safety Curriculum Framework for Medical Schools and the Patient Safety Education Project (PSEP) in the United States. [More...]

Tim Shaw is Director of the Workforce Education and Development Group in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Sydney. He has managed a number of substantial Health workforce educational research and development projects in Australia including: the development of the Australian National Patient Safety Education Framework; Basic Surgical training online for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons; the development of the Cancer Learning Knowledge portal for the Commonwealth Government; the development of the ISQUA Knowledge Portal for the International Society for Quality in Healthcare; and the use of new technologies to improve event reporting amongst junior doctors at Brigham and Mass General Hospitals in Boston. He was a contributor to the WHO Patient Safety Curriculum Framework for Medical Schools and the Patient Safety Education Project (PSEP) in the United States.

He was a visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School for 12 months in 2008/9 during which time he developed new methodologies for the dissemination of evidence based medicine through online learning. He has also acted as an advisor and consultant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School Project, Partners Harvard Medical International and the Joint Commission in the United States. His research focuses on knowledge dissemination and transfer and flexible learning. He currently directs educational research on a number of grants including the Sydney West and Sydney Catalyst Translational Research Centres.

He sits on a number of significant national and international committees including: Academic Oversight Committee of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School; International Medical Graduates Competent Authority Accreditation Committee for the Australian Medical Council; Expert Advisory Committee into Patient Safety Education in Medical Schools for the World Health Organisation; and the Hospital Skills Program State Training Council for the Institute for Medical Education and Training. [Hide detail]