Better Together. Please join us for two days of inspiring and transformative education and interactive sessions focused on employee and patient safety in beautiful Rancho Palos Verdes. In addition, BETA HEART® Wave VI members can participate in our final Workshop at the Symposium. We look forward to dining alongside you at the Reception and Member Awards Dinner as we celebrate your performance and achievement in all of our BETA initiatives.
BETA Annual Member Symposium
Date: October 20 – October 21, 2022
Location: Terranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
AGENDA - see full session description and information on the Symposium Agenda Page
Thursday, October 20, 2022
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Registration
1:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Welcome/General Sessions
5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Reception and Member Awards Dinner
Friday, October 21, 2022
7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m Registration/Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. Opening Session
9:20 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Breakout Tracks
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Closing Session
General Session Keynote Speakers
Natalie Nixon, Ph.D.
Session: Thinking Outside of the Box and Leading with Courage
Creativity Strategist and CEO of Figure 8 Thinking LLC, Natalie Nixon is an author, speaker, qualitative researcher and creativity strategist who advises organizations and individuals creativity, the future of work and innovation by applying wonder and rigor to stimulate innovation, amplify growth, and achieve business value through transformation. Her global perspective combined with her background in anthropology, fashion, academia and dance inform her approach. She has been named as one of the top 50 keynote speakers in the world by Real Leaders and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company and INC. She received her BA (honors) from Vassar College, and her PhD from the University of Westminster in London.
Hardeep Singh, M.D., MPH
Session: Moving from the Bronze Age to a Golden Era in Measurement and Reduction of Diagnostic Error
Dr. Singh is Chief, Health Policy, Quality and Informatics (HPQI) at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Director, Houston DISCovery (Diagnosis Improvement Safety Center), and Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine. His research has informed several national and international patient safety initiatives and policy reports and his professional interests include understanding and reducing diagnostic errors, the use of health information technology to improve healthcare and the safety of EHR implementation and use.
Haavi Morreim, J.D., Ph.D.
Session: Conflict Resolution
Dr. Haavi Morreim, Principal, Center for Conflict Resolution in Healthcare, LLC is an academician, attorney and an active mediator for both civil and family matters. Since 1998, she has been working as a Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Morreim has authored two books and over 160 articles published in journals of law, medicine and bioethics and has presented at invited lectures both nationally and internationally.
Raj Ratwani, Ph.D.
Session: Human Factors and Safety in the Digital Health Era
Dr. Ratwani is Vice President of Scientific Affairs for MedStar Health Research Institute (MHRI) and the Director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine. He has extensive expertise in health information technology, usability and safety, interruptions and workflow, data visualization, and data science and is an active applied researcher serving as principal investigator on numerous grants and contracts.
Daniel Kraft, M.D.
Session: The Future of Medicine: Where Can Technology Take Us?
Dr. Kraft is a physician-scientist and innovator, Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience at Singularity University, and the Founder & Chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. His academic research is focused on stem cell biology and regenerative medicine and his clinical research is on bone marrow/hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and medical devices to enable stem cell-based regenerative medicine.
BETA HEART Workshop Speakers
Carole Hemmelgarn, M.S.
Session: Understanding the Family Perspective: How a HEART-Centric Response Impacts Families
Carole Hemmelgarn is the Senior Director for the Executive Master’s program for Clinical Quality, Safety & Leadership at Georgetown University, and the Senior Director Education for the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety. She sits on the Leapfrog Patient & Family Caregiver Expert Panel, Board of Quality, Safety and Experience at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Clinical Excellence Council for Colorado Hospital Association, ABIM Foundation, Patient Advisory Committee. She is also a founding member of Patients for Patient Safety US. She has a degree in Speech Communication from Colorado State University and a master’s degree in Patient Safety Leadership from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a second master’s degree in Health Care Ethics from Creighton University.
Seth Krevat, M.D., FACP
Session: Developing a Curiosity-Led Event Review (with Carole Hemmelgarn, M.S.)
Dr. Krevat practices palliative care at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, is the senior medical director and assistant vice president at MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare and is an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. From 2015 to 2016, Dr. Krevat participated in MedStar’s Physician Leadership Development Program administered in conjunction with the Wharton School of Executive Education. He was trained in Lean and the Toyota Production System management methodologies and traveled to Japan to study them. Dr. Krevat is board certified in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine, received a B.A. in Economics and English cum laude from Tufts University and a medical doctorate from Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Tim McDonald, M.D., J.D.
Session: Tragedy Strikes: What Happens Next?
Session: Coming to Resolution (with Carole Hemmelgarn, M.S.)
Timothy McDonald is the Director for the Center for Open and Honest Communication at the MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety and a Professor of Law at Loyola University – Chicago. Tim is a physician-attorney whose research has focused on the principled approach to patient harm with an emphasis on reporting of patient safety events, the use of simulation and human factors analysis and providing open and honest communication following harm events. His federally funded research has focused on these domains and their impact on improving the quality of care while mitigating medical liability and other legal-related issues.
Patient Safety Track Speakers
Haavi Morreim, J.D., Ph.D.
Session: Especially High-Conflict Situations
Dr. Haavi Morreim, Principal, Center for Conflict Resolution in Healthcare, LLC is an academician, attorney and an active mediator for both civil and family matters. Since 1998, she has been working as a Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Morreim has authored two books and over 160 articles published in journals of law, medicine and bioethics and has presented at invited lectures both nationally and internationally.
Kenneth Catchpole, Ph.D.
Session: Human Factors
Ken Catchpole is a human factors engineer who has spent the last fifteen years studying and improving safety and performance in acute care. His research has been primarily conducted in the UK and USA, exploring trauma, cardiac, orthopaedic, vascular, gastro-intestinal, spinal, and urological surgery. Current projects include human-systems integration in robotic assisted surgery; communication and coordination in trauma and transplant; and work systems analysis of sterile processing. Dr. Catchpole has been published in over 70 peer-reviewed publications, and given at least 150 invited lectures.
Gerry Castro, Ph.D., MPH, PMP
Session: Harm and Injury Investigation
Dr. Castro is Director of Quality Improvement at SIDM (Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine). Prior to joining SIDM, he was the Project Director for Patient Safety Initiatives in the Office of Patient Safety at the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. His professional efforts are focused on improving patient safety through defining and applying evidence-based strategies in healthcare. He has an MPH and PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago with his doctorate focusing on patient safety and safety event analysis.
Employee Safety Track Speakers
Yeu-Li Yeung, M.S., OT/L, CPE, CSPHP
Session: Bridging Safety, Accessibility and Quality Care in Ambulatory Settings through Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) Practices
Ms. Yeu-Li Yeung is the Patient Care Ergonomics Coordinator in the Ergonomics Division at Duke University and Health System in Durham North Carolina. She has over 10 years of experience in healthcare ergonomics. She manages a health system-wide safe patient handling program which includes coordinating assessment and selection of appropriate safe patient handling equipment as well as developing and conducting training. Ms. Yeung is a licensed occupational therapist a certified professional ergonomist and a certified safe patient handling professional.
George Brogmus, Ph.D., M.S., CPE
Session: Let’s Give Fatigue a Rest!
Dr. Brogmus has 40 years’ experience as a safety and ergonomics consultant, working with leaders and currently teaches ergonomics at UCLA and CSUN. He was formerly the Product Director - Science & Research with Liberty Mutual’s Risk Control Services, responsible for establishing and coordinating research and development partnerships with universities, consortiums, and technology innovators. He has a BS in electrical engineering (UCLA), an MS in Human Factors (USC), and earned his PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health.
Rick Wickstrom, PT, DPT, CPE, CME
Session: Fitness for Duty Testing: From Hire to Retire
Dr. Rick Wickstrom, President and Founder of WorkAbility Systems, has consulted in occupational health and ergonomics for over 30 years. He regularly testifies as an expert and his diverse clinical practice includes transitional work-site therapy, functional capacity evaluation, worker accommodation studies, ergonomic job analysis, development of worker fitness screening and transitional work programs, product design, research, and examiner training.
Travel/Reimbursement Info - applies only to fully insured client
- BETA will reimburse travel for hotel accommodations at the Terranea Resort & Spa for one night at the negotiated and single occupancy rate of $268 if the commute to the event location is greater than 40 miles or travel time exceeds one hour from your home/office.
- BETA will also reimburse transportation costs that include round-trip coach airline ticket, mileage, parking, and cab fare up to a combined maximum of $250. All additional expenses can be reimbursed (if approved) by a facility's RMRF fund or CARE fund.
Please refer to our policy for more details.
If you have any questions, please contact us at riskmgmt@betahg.com.