Michal Tamuz, Ph.D., is a Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She studies how organizations learn from low-probability, high-consequence events, such as rare, but potentially fatal incidents in aviation safety and healthcare organizations. In research funded by the National Science Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, she examined how aviation regulators and airlines learn from near accidents as well as how hospitals and their pharmacies seek to learn from medication errors. In her healthcare research, Tamuz also explores how the design of laboratory-based simulation of uncommon, lethal medical emergencies may enable clinicians and hospitals to learn about actual threats to patient safety.
