Sarah Parker

Sarah Parker is a research Associate Professor at Franklin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. Her lab conducts basic and translational research into the performance of teams in a crucial high-risk setting: health care. The interdisciplinary, collaborative lab takes on projects spanning numerous clinical domains – from the ICU to the operating room to the outpatient clinical practice – and disciplines including medical, surgical and nursing. Parker and her team use methods such as human factors, systems engineering, bioinformatics, computational modeling, industrial/organizational psychology, and implementation science, to study clinical team performance during direct patient care and simulations to better understand complex work and patterns of performance that lead to excellent patient care. She earned a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, an M.A. at George Mason University and a B.A. at Wittenberg University.

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