Annegret Hannawa

Annegret Friederike Hannawa (born April 27, 1979 in Konstanz, Germany) is a German communication scientist and founding director of the Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Safety (CAHQS) at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.[1]

Prof.

Annegret Friederike Hannawa
Annegret Hannawa
Born
Konstanz, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materSan Diego State University (SDSU), Arizona State University (ASU)
Scientific career
FieldsSafe Communication, Patient Safety, Healthcare quality
InstitutionsLugano, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
Websitewww.annegrethannawa.com

Studies

Hannawa studied Interpersonal Communication at San Diego State University (California, USA), where she earned a master's degree in 2006.[2]

She then began her Ph.D. studies at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona (USA). Her dissertation developed a communication science model of "Physician Mistake Disclosure."[3] In 2009, Hannawa received her doctorate from ASU.[4]

Academic career and work

After receiving her PhD, Hannawa received her first academic appointment at Wake Forest University (WFU) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies.[5] In 2011, she was appointed to a tenure-track professorship in health communication and research methodology at the Faculty of Communication, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI, Lugano, Switzerland), where she still works today.[6]

Hannawa conducted a grant-funded international congress entitled "Communicating Medical Error (COME)" in 2013.[7] The conference evolved into the nonprofit organization "ISCOME Global Center for the Advancement of Communication Science in Healthcare."[8] To date, Hannawa leads this research association as its founding president-elect.[9] Also in 2013, she received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) to develop evidence-based communication guidelines for disclosing medical errors to patients.[10]

In 2016, Hannawa founded an interdisciplinary Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Safety (CAHQS) at the Università della Svizzera italiana.[11] In the same year, she was elected as a scientific expert to the ELSI Advisory Board of the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN).[12] In addition, she received honorary titles as Associate Faculty at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)[13] and Cardiff University School of Medicine (Wales, United Kingdom).[6] In the same year, she was awarded the "Jozien Bensing Research Award".[14]

Research

Hannawa's research focuses primarily on how safe interpersonal communication can prevent harmful errors in everyday clinical practice and ensure high-quality healthcare, particularly in the digital age.[15] In her scientific research, she has evaluated over 1000 cases of harm in hospitals.[16][17] According to her statistics, 53 patients die every day in Germany as a result of treatment errors;[18] up to 80 percent of these cases can be traced back to poor communication.[19][20]

Awards
  • Jozien Bensing Research Award, 2016.[21]

See also

References
  1. "Our Team". Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  2. Hannawa, Annegret F.; Spitzberg, Brian H. (2009-01-07). ""My Child Can Beat Your Child": Toward a Measure of Parental Self-Evaluation Maintenance (PSEM)". Journal of Family Communication. 9 (1): 23–42. doi:10.1080/15267430802561584. ISSN 1526-7431. S2CID 143723290.
  3. Hannawa, Annegret F. (2009-07-31). "Negotiating Medical Virtues: Toward the Development of a Physician Mistake Disclosure Model". Health Communication. 24 (5): 391–399. doi:10.1080/10410230903023279. ISSN 1041-0236. PMID 19657822. S2CID 30495899.
  4. "Hannawa, Annegret Friederike". Università della Svizzera italiana (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  5. "July 2010 Faculty Focus". Wake Forest News. 2010-07-01. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  6. "Dr. Annegret Hannawa, PhD • Patient Safety Movement". Patient Safety Movement. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  7. "COME - Conference - Communicating Medical Error". www.come.usi.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  8. "About". ISCOME Global Center for the Advancement of Communication Science in Healthcare. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  9. "Board". ISCOME Global Center for the Advancement of Communication Science in Healthcare. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  10. "Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF | P3 Research Grant Search Database | Projects - People – Publications". p3.snf.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  11. "Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety". Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  12. "ELSI Advisory Group (ELSIag)". SPHN (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  13. schroeder, christopher; Health, JH Bloomberg School of Public. "Faculty". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  14. "USI professor wins Jozien Bensing Research Award 2016". www.com.usi.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  15. Ovretveit, John; Wu, Albert; Street, Richard; Thimbleby, Harold; Thilo, Friederike; Hannawa, Annegret (2017-03-20). "Using and choosing digital health technologies: a communications science perspective". Journal of Health Organization and Management. 31 (1): 28–37. doi:10.1108/JHOM-07-2016-0128. ISSN 1477-7266. PMID 28260405.
  16. "Von wegen "Soft-Skill"". www.landdergesundheit.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  17. Rundschau, Lausitzer (2019-03-10). "Aktuelle Studie: Patienten verstehen oft nur Bahnhof". lr-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  18. "Schweigen gefährdet Menschenleben". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  19. "Kommunikation zwischen Arzt und Patient - Das große Risiko des gegenseitigen Nicht-Verstehens". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  20. Nikolaus Nützel: Patientensicherheit: Wenn Schweigen gefährlich ist. Bayern 2, 15.09.2017.
  21. "Awards – EACH". Each.
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