Dean's Distinguished Lecture: Professor Katie Dainty
This lecture is sponsored by the Warwick International Partnership Fund
When You Need to Think Differently about Your Science: The Example of Lay Responder CPR Rates
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Professor Gavin Perkins, Dean of Warwick Medical School, was delighted to welcome Professor Katie Dainty to give a Dean's Distinguished Lecture.
Professor Katie Dainty is a qualitative social scientist and Research Chair in Patient-Centred Outcomes at North York General Hospital. In addition to her appointment at NYGH, she is an Associate Professor and Director of the Health Systems Research Graduate Training Program in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at the University of Toronto.
She has expertise in the areas of patient and family experience, implementation science, patient-centred outcome measures, and quality improvement in health care. Her core program of research focuses on using qualitative and co-design methods to unpack long-held assumptions about bystander experience and survivorship following sudden cardiac arrest.
Overview of presentation
We often get siloed in our fields of research and can be unintentionally blind to other ways of seeing a problem. Using her qualitative work on bystander CPR and out of hospital cardiac arrest as an example, Katie’s presentation discussed the importance of thinking differently to solve complex problems in health care.