Show Notes
Professor Steven Yule is Chair of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, and leader of the Edinburgh Surgical Sabermetrics Group. He is also Programme Director of the MSc in Patient Safety and Clinical Human Factors within Edinburgh Surgery Online, and Director of Non-Technical Skills at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Professor Yule is an academic psychologist and human factors scientist; internationally recognized for his work in non-technical skills, patient safety, and surgical team simulation. He has extensive experience studying team performance across industrial sectors, including healthcare, energy, transportation, space exploration, and elite athletics.
Current work includes automating assessments of technical and team skills, embedding video and sensors to measure clinical expertise, and translating performance analytics from professional sports to enhance surgical performance in low, middle and high resource contexts.
Research conducted by the Edinburgh Surgical Sabermetrics Group is funded by National Institutes for Health (NIH), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Melville Trust for Care and Cure of Cancer, Canadian Department of National Defence, United States Airforce, Johnson & Johnson, The Circulation Foundation, and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Before joining the Faculty at Univeristy of Edinburgh, Prof Yule was Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School (2011-2020) and Director of Research, Education and Innovation at the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation, Brigham & Women’s Hosptal in Boston, USA.
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