Christine Shea

She is interested in people, systems and organizations and how to optimise their performance.

She is the Program Director of the MSc. in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety concentration and an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream). Her teaching focuses on leadership, change, quality improvement and patient safety across IHPME’s programs. She has over 25 years of experience working around the world as a consultant in high reliability safety critical organizations on safety and risk, in particular the relationship of people with safety, risk and performance in health care, aviation, rail and the nuclear industry.

Education

• BA (McGill University),
• MEd (University of Manchester, UK),
• PhD (University of Manchester, UK),

Program Affiliations

• Health Administration (MHSc)
• Health Systems Research (HSR)
• Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS)