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Robert Lee, BSc, BScED, MSc Lecturer II Program Operations Director Graduate School: University of Washington Interests and expertise: Risk and decision analysis, patient safety, health care resource allocation I have a REALLY circuitous path to New Mexico and this Department: born in North Carolina; after university did hard labor in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, California, Montana; discovered I could play drums and climb mountains at some point; met my wife (Dr. Linda Cook) and discovered I could use my brain for a living; moved to Seattle and went to graduate school; climbed more and learned to ski; quit playing music; worked as a consultant in environmental risk and risk and decision analysis for some time; moved to Calgary Alberta; climbed more and discovered waterfall ice climbing; started playing music again; freed my heels/freed my mind (i.e. discovered telemarking); switched my career from consulting to academia and health care; discovered the patient safety field; became a Canadian citizen; and in 2007 Dr. Cook was recruited to the UNM Cancer Center and here I am!

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Current Projects include: Recent Publications: Probabilistic fault tree analysis of a radiation treatment system. Ekaette E, Lee RC, Cooke DL, Iftody S, Craighead P.  Risk Analysis 2007 Using a survey of incident reporting and learning practices to improve organizational learning at a cancer care centre. Cooke DL, Dunscombe P, Lee RC.  Quality and Safety in Health Care 2007 A review of risk issues associated with the reuse of critical single-use medical devices. Lee RC, Berzins S, Alfieri N.   Canadian Journal of Infection Control 2007 The Equivalent Uniform Dose as a severity metric for radiation treatment incidents. Dunscombe P, Iftody S, Ploquin N, Ekaette E, Lee RC. Radiotherapy and Oncology 2007 Costs associated with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patient treatment in a Canadian integrated cancer care centre. Lee RC, Zou D, Demetrick D, DiFrancesco L, Fassbender K, Stewart D.   Value in Health 2007 Additional Publications <<previous || next>> Research Home          EM Home          EM Contact Us