Nick Sevdalis
Contact
Email: n.sevdalis@imperial.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7594 3431
- Office: 507, 5th Floor, Wright Fleming B, Norfolk Place, St Mary's Campus, London
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Nick Sevdalis is a Lecturer in Patient Safety in the Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology of Imperial College and also the Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality. He is collaborating with the Centre in work-stream 1 “Embedding Infection Prevention: Behavioural Change”. Working closely with Alison Holmes the work-stream leader, Dr Foster our commercial partners and the CIPM Pharmacist and Nurse, Nick has been bringing his considerable expertise as an Experimental Psychologist, to bear on the project.
Nick’s research interests focus on (i) behavioural/cognitive skills and teamwork assessment and training in surgical and medical specialities and (ii) cognitive processes underlying decision-making in clinicians and patients. As such the Centre has benefited greatly from Nick working closely with the team in the production of the literature review on social marketing and its efficacy in changing infection prevention and prescribing behaviours, and through his in put into the design of various research tools which will be used to assess the impact of the behaviour change interventions once they are implemented.
Background
After reading Psychology at the Panteion University of Athens, Nick obtained an MSc in Organisational Psychology from the same University and a PhD in behavioural decision-making from University College London (2004). Following his doctoral studies, Nick was first employed as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology of Imperial College (2004-06) and subsequently as a Lecturer in Patient Safety in a joint appointment between Imperial College and the National Patient Safety Agency (2006-08). In June 2008, Nick was appointed full-time Lecturer in Patient Safety in the Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology of Imperial College and also the Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality.
Nick regularly delivers lectures and talks on the above topics, on methods for the analysis of adverse events and patient safety incidents, and on Research Methods and Applied Statistics. At present, Nick is supervising three Doctoral students, and numerous students of postgraduate (MSc MEd) and undergraduate (BSc) taught degrees, in Medicine, Surgery, and Psychology.
