Sr. Advisor Quality & Safety, UMC Utrecht; Netherlands

Bas de Vries is a senior advisor and trainer at the Department of Quality & Patient Safety at the University Medical Centre in Utrecht. After years of working as a nurse he switched to education and training. He was involved by the start of Center for Patient Safety at UMC Utrecht. He designed and provided many trainings and courses on Q&S-themes. After years of incident-investigation he shifted his attention to the colleagues who were involved in adverse events and started up the program of peersupport and collegial network for Emergency Dept and ICU’s.