Senior Medical Educator, Cognitive Institute; Australia 

Stephen Priestley is a Senior Medical Educator with the Cognitive Institute and delivers workshops on Safety and Reliability, Speaking Up, and Professional Accountability across healthcare organisations in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

He is engaged in conducting Safety Culture Reviews of health services focussing on Leadership, Culture, Structure and Improvement and values the opportunity to work in partnership with health care leaders and front – line staff in improving patient safety and the quality of care that is delivered to patients and communities.

Stephen is an active clinician and holds the role of Senior Staff Specialist with the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service in Queensland, Australia having previously been a Director of Emergency Medicine for 18 Years across hospitals in Victoria and Queensland states in Australia.

He is a longstanding member and contributor to Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Quality and Patient Safety Committee and brought together ACEM and the Institute for HealthCare Improvement (IHI) for the delivery of an Emergency Department targeted 3 day Accelerated Patient Safety Course held in Melbourne in March 2016. Stephen completed the IHI Patient Safety Executive Development Program in Boston in 2014 as a recipient of a Leadership in Patient Safety Scholarship from ACEM.