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Professional scientist, educator, researcher, and expert human performance specialist dedicated to supporting the acquisition and implementation of abilities in critical and complex health services environments. Proficient analyst specializing in outcomes-based research and evidence-based evaluation leading to high impact quality of care and safety initiatives in medicine, surgery, nursing and the health professions. Expertise in high acuity performance under stress. Current interests focus on the development of mastery performance in emergency, critical, and trauma care for individuals and teams from Level 1 trauma centers to expeditionary and other austere environments. Experienced, globally recognized leader in medical, surgical, nursing and health professions education. Deep expertise in assessment, evaluation, outcomes measurement, theoretical and empirical systems of practice, training and professional development for achieving performance mastery in all clinical performance disciplines. More than 25 years of administrative and executive leadership.
Education/Academic qualification
Psychology, PhD, The effect of affective corrective feedback variation in web-based instruction on community college student satisfaction and retention, University of San Francisco
1999 → 2003
Award Date: 12 Dec 2003
Instructional Design, Master, Best portfolio award for instructional design, San Jose State University
1997 → 1999
Award Date: 22 May 1999
Virtual Reality & Multimedia Design, Master, Mythmania: The historical and current influences of Greek mythology on cultural and linguistic practices, San Jose State University
1995 → 1998
Award Date: 17 May 1998
Psychology (NAc), PhD, The influence of affective state of human interpretation of written communication, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA
1990 → 1994
Award Date: 7 May 1994
External positions
Adj Professor, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2017 → 2019
Professor, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida
2015 → 2017
Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2013 → 2015
Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2004 → 2013
Keywords
- BF Psychology
- Perception, Interpretation of Meaning during performance under high affective load (e.g. Stress)
- Performance Assessment in Complex Performance Environments
- HA Statistics
- Analyses of qualitative, non-parametric, parametric, and mixed models
- LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
- Acquisition, mastery, and maintenance all performance dimensions in applied medicine, surgery, and advanced practice providers
- Instructional development for targeted performance objectives in medicine, surgery, and advanced practice providers
- Formative assessment and feedback
- Summative and credentialing assessment methods
- Requirements for competency credentialing and performance assessments
- LB2300 Higher Education
- Neuroscience of mastery
- Acquisition and maintenance processes of criterion-based performance
- Development and maintenance of mastery and expertise
- Optimizing the integration of performance dimensions: cognitive, kinesthetic, affective, and environmental factors performance mastery
- The differential impacts of affective and cognitive overload on performance
- Uses of simulation supported methods for developing clinical, surgical and procedural abilities
- Factors that impact the performance of multidisciplinary medical teams
- Best practices for the development of small team capabilities in surgery and medicine
- LB2361 Curriculum
- Establishing performance requirements and criteria for professional domains in medicine, surgery and advanced practice providers
- Development of criterion based instructional blocks for sequential development of abilities
- Instructional design and sequencing of learning blocks to build curricula
- Best practices in assessment and evaluation of instructional blocks and full curricula
- Analyze performance gaps or determine requirements that establish a need for curriculum development and implementation
- Best practices in simulation for the development of performance abilities in medicine, surgery, and advanced practice clinical care
- Q Science (General)
- Best practices in scientific inquiry
- Best practices in quantitative research methods
- Best practices in qualitative research methods
- Best practices in mixed-methods research and triangulation
- Best practices in translational research related to human performance
- RD Surgery
- Laparoscopic Surgical Education and Assessment
- Robotic Surgical Education and Assessment
- Trauma Surgery Surgical Education and Assessment
- Endoscopic urgical Education and Assessment
- Vascular and Endovascular Surgical Education and Assessment
- Urological Surgical Education and Assessment
- Orthopaedic Surgical Surgical Education and Assessment
- R Medicine (General)
- Critical Care Education and Assessment
- Internal Medicine Education and Assessment
- Pediatric Medicine Education and Assessment
- Emergency Medicine Education and Assessment
- Medical Procedural Skills Education and Assessment
- Anesthesiology Education and Assessment
- RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
- Neuroscientific foundations of mastery and development of expertise
- Neuroscientific foundations for development of surgical and procedural skills
- Neuroscientific foundations for managing performance in high affect contexts
- Integration of perceptual inputs in the development of competence
- Neuroscientific explanations for retention of acquired expertise
- Neuroscientific explanations for why expertise is specific to one performance domain
- Neuroscientific reasons why expertise in one domain rarely transfers to expertise in other domains
- RG Gynecology and obstetrics
- Obstetrics education and asssessment
- Gynecological Surgical Education and Assessment
- Management of Obstetric Emergencies
- Management of Post-partum hemorrhage in resource limited environments
- Education and Assessment for Obstetric Emergencies
- Management of Post-Parum Hemorrhage through medical, surgical, and advanced treatment interventions
- Management of cardiac events for Obstetric patients
- Team performance in the management of Obstetric emergencies
- Best practices in simulation based instruction for Obstetric emergencies
- Best practices in simulation based instruction for Gynecological and Oncological Surgery
- est practices in simulation based instruction for Obstetric deliveries
- RF Otorhinolaryngology
- Craniomaxillofacial Trauma Surgical Education and Assessment
- RE Ophthalmology
- Ophthalmology Surgical Education and Assessment
- RZ Other systems of medicine
- Military Health System
- Joint Trauma System
- Military Civilian Partnerships
- Role theaters of care in expeditionary medicine and surgeries
- Academic Medical Centers
- Level One Trauma Centers
- Military Health System Strategic Partnership with the American College of Surgeons
- U Military Science (General)
- Far forward surgical resuscitation individual and team performance requirements
- Combat casualty care instruction and assessment
- Development and assessment of individual performance abilities for expeditionary and combat casualty care
- Development and assessment of team performance abilities for expeditionary and combat casualty care
- Standardization of best practices in combat casualty care across the services and allied partners from other countries
- Training and assessment of clinical, tactical, operational and situational knowledge requirements for service and specialty specific expeditionary scopes of practice
- Performance requirements for service and specialty expeditionary scopes of practice
- Training and assessment of critical procedures for combat casualty care
- The separate and collective requirements for teams provided surgical resuscitative care under fire
- Management of resources for FRSTs during prolonged care conditions
- The separate and collective requirements for teams providing surgical resuscitative care with prolonged hold times and without personnel or resource re-supply
- The development of resiliency for clinical providers caring for traumatically injured patients resulting from combat or mass casualty events
- The critical role of tissue and physiological fidelity in using simulation supported methods for training or assessment of combat casualties and polytrauma patients
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 2 Active
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Targeted On-Demand Team Performance App Development
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, U.S. Army
30/09/15 → …
Project: Research
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Cognitive Neuroscience Foundations of Surgical and Procedural Expertise: Focus on Theory
Andreatta, P., 1 Jan 2023, Clinical Education for the Health Professions: Theory and Practice. Springer Nature, p. 335-346 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
1 Scopus citations -
Five Influential Factors for Clinical Team Performance in Urgent, Emergency Care Contexts
Andreatta, P. B., Graybill, J. C., Renninger, C. H., Armstrong, R. K., Bowyer, M. W. & Gurney, J. M., 1 Jul 2023, In: Military Medicine. 188, 7-8, p. E2480-E2488Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Scopus citations -
Putting the ready in readiness: A post hoc analysis of surgeon performance during a military mass casualty situation in Afghanistan
Andreatta, P. B., Bowyer, M. W., Renninger, C. H., Graybill, J. C., Gurney, J. M. & Elster, E. A., 1 Aug 2024, In: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 97, 2, p. S119-S125Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Scopus citations -
Simulation-based mock codes significantly correlate with improved pediatric patient cardiopulmonary arrest survival rates
Andreatta, P., Saxton, E., Thompson, M. & Annich, G., Jan 2011, In: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 12, 1, p. 33-38 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
282 Scopus citations -
Evidence-based Surgical Competency Outcomes from the Clinical Readiness Program
Andreatta, P., Bowyer, M. W., Ritter, E. M., Remick, K., Knudson, M. M. & Elster, E. A., 7 Dec 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Annals of surgery.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
15 Scopus citations
Press/Media
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New Military Medicine Findings from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Described (Putting the Ready In Readiness: a Post Hoc Analysis of Surgeon Performance During a Military Mass Casualty Situation In Afghanistan)
Eric Elster, Mark Bowyer & Pamela Andreatta
26/08/24
1 item of Media coverage
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Research Findings from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Update Understanding of Gynecology (Evaluation of urological and gynecological surgeons as force multipliers for mass Casualty trauma care)
Matthew Bradley, Pamela Andreatta, Eric Elster & Mark Bowyer
31/05/24
1 item of Media coverage
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Study Data from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Update Understanding of Fasciotomy (Clinical Readiness: Can Providers Learn to Perform Lower Leg Fasciotomy Through a Tablet-based Augmented Reality Surgical Training ...)
Matthew Bradley, Pamela Andreatta & Mark Bowyer
15/04/24
1 item of Media coverage
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Studies in the Area of Military Medicine Reported from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Upper-extremity Vascular Exposures for Trauma: Comparative Performance Outcomes for General Surgeons and Orthopedic Surgeons)
Matthew Bradley, Mark Bowyer & Pamela Andreatta
16/01/24
1 item of Media coverage
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