Knowledge is the enemy of unsafe care Education and training in patient safety research 1st meeting of the expert working group 18-19 February 2008, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland Venue: WHO, 20 avenue Appia, Geneva, Switzerland Room: Salle A (Main Building, 1 st Floor) List of participants Co-Chairs Narendra Arora * Peter Norton * Executive Director Professor INCLEN Trust Department of Family Medicine New Delhi, India University of Calgary Calgary, Canada Participants Ahmed Al-Mandhari Festus Ilako ** Deputy Director General Clinical Affairs Deputy Country Director Family Medicine and Public Health Dept African Medical and Research Sultan Qaboos University Hospital Foundation (AMREF) Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Nairobi, Kenya Antoine Geissbuhler Mark Joshi Medical Director Director Medical Informatics Service Clinical Epidemiology Unit Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève School of Medicine Geneva, Switzerland University of Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya Liane Ginsburg * Associate Professor Tawfik Khoja *** School of Health Policy and Management Director General York University Executive Board Toronto, Canada Health Ministers Council Riyadh, Saudi Arabia John Gosbee Human Factors Engineering and Rakesh Lodha * *** Healthcare Specialist Assistant Professor Red Forest Consulting Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine All India Institute of Medical Sciences University of Michigan New Delhi, India Ann Arbor, MI, USA * Co-authors of background papers ** Rapporteurs *** Participate by teleconference 1 Knowledge is the enemy of unsafe care Sergio Muñoz Navarro Jiruth Sriratanaban Executive Director Associate Professor Training, Research and Management for Dept of Preventive and Social Medicine Health Based on Evidence (CIGES) Faculty of Medicine Universidad de La Frontera Chulalongkorn University Temuco, Chile Bangkok, Thailand Hillegonda Maria Dutilh Novaes Naruo Uehara Coordinator Director Health Information Cluster Division of International Health Department of Preventive Medicine Graduate School of Medicine University of São Paolo Tohoku University São Paolo, Brazil Sendai, Japan John Orav *** Steven Wayling Associate Professor Manager - Research Training Department of Biostatistics Special Programme for Research and Harvard School of Public Health Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) Boston, MA, USA World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland Alan Pearson Executive Director Maria Woloshynowych ** Johanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Course Director Professor of Nursing MSc in Quality and Safety in Healthcare University of Adelaide Imperial College Adelaide, Australia London, United Kingdom Peter Pronovost *** Zhao Yue Director Director Quality and Safety Research Group Department of Medical Administration Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Peking University People's Hospital Baltimore, MD, USA Beijing, P.R. China Miguel Recio Segoviano Organizational engineer Escuela Politécnica Superior Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain Secretariat Research Program, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety Anne Andermann Itziar Larizgoitia Jauregui Technical Officer Lead Katthyana Aparicio Nittita Prasopa-Plaizier Secretary Technical Officer David Bates Albert Wu External Lead Senior Adviser * Co-authors of background papers ** Rapporteurs *** Participate by teleconference 2 .