Anthony G Gallagher
Chief Scientifc Officer for OGC Metrics (Ireland) and visiting Professor at KU Leuven in Belgium (Faculty of Medicine) and Ulster University (Faculty of Health and Life Sciences)
Dr. Anthony Gerald Gallagher is currently Chief Scientifc Officer for OGC Metrics (Ireland) and visiting Professor at KU Leuven in Belgium (Faculty of Medicine) and Ulster University (Faculty of Health and Life Sciences). Previously he was Director of Research and Learning at the ORSI Academy in Melle (i.e., robotic surgery centre), Belgium, Professor of Technology Enhance Learning at University College Cork and Professor of Human Factors, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Psychology at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown in Northern Ireland and his Ph.D. at the Trinity College Dublin. In 2013 he was awarded his D.Sc. for his published work on ‘Assessment and training of surgeons and physicians for image guided medicine’. He was elected a Member of the prestigeous Academia Europea (The Academy of Europe (founded by the Royal Society)) in 2021.
He was the first academic from Ireland to be awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship and during this time worked with Prof. Richard Satava at Yale University (2000 – 2001). In 2011 along with his late colleague Prof. Gerry O’Sullivan (University College Cork) he completed an authored book, Fundamentals of Surgical Simulation; Principles and Practices which was published in 2011. His principal research interests currently include simulation based training for robot assisted surgery and minimally invasive surgery, endovascular interventions, pacemaker implantation and validation of medical devices for training and assessment. During his time at Yale he was the scientific lead in the first group to demonstrate in a prospective, randomized double-blinded study the power of virtual reality training for improved operating room performance. In 2015 he gave The Hamilton Russell Memorial Lecture, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), Perth, Australia as well as being the International Education Visitor, RACS. At NextMed/Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR22), Los Angeles, California, USA he was presented with the 20th Satava Award for his contributions to advanced technologies in medicine.
Over the past decade he has led the global paradigm shift in simulation based training for the acquisition surgical and procedureal skills. He has developed state of the art methodology for “procedure characterisation”, metric development for the assessment and training of procedure-based skills and validation of the effectivenes of this approach. In a recent systematic review and meta analysis of prospective, randomized and blinded clinical trials using this approach for training surgocal and procedural skills (publsihed in Annals of Surgery, Mazzone et al.,) this approach (proficiency-based progression) demonstrated a 60% reduction in intra-operative performance errors in comparison to the quality assured conventional training.
His publications on simulation, competence and proficiency-based progression have initiated a paradigm shift in, not alone training of health professionals, but development of an integrated approach to procedural healthcare with different clinical disciplines (surgery, interventional cardiology, interventional neuro radiology, anaethetsist, nursing and robotic surgery). Dr. Gallagher is considered one of the leading exponents and international experts in the world for the design, application and validation of simulaion in medicine.
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