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René Amalberti is 61 years old, Prof. Medicine, MD, PhD. After a residency in Psychiatry, he integrated the Airforce in 1977, got a permanent Military Research position in 1982, and became Professor of Medicine in 1995. He retired in 2007 and is now Senior advisor Patient Safety at the HAS (Haute Autorité de Santé) and Chief scientific officer of the French association La Prévention Médicale. He has published over 100 international papers, and authored or co-authored 10 books on human error and system safety (last Navigating safety, Springer, 2013).  Charles Vincent trained as a Clinical Psychologist and since 1985 has carried out research on the causes of harm to patients, the consequences for patients and staff and methods of improving the safety of healthcare. He was Professor of Psychology at University College London before moving to the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College in 2002 where he directed the Imperial Centre for Patient Safety & Service Quality. He is the editor of Clinical Risk Management (BMJ Publications, 2nd edition, 2001), author of Patient Safety (2ned edition 2010) and author of many papers on medical error, risk and patient safety. He is currently a Health Foundation Fellow and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford.

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