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The official webpage for the Surgical Innovation Lab at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine. Our research aims to improve surgical safety and surgical education by studying and analyzing factors such as noise, movement, teaching, communication and even Human factors. Goals include developing a surgical simulation tool to prepare residents for performing a midurethral sling operation, identify causes in noise and in language that interfere with communication and understanding in the operating room, and even developing a solution to mitigate noise in the OR. We also utilized ethnographic studies, OR observation and video recording.
Higher education and student development scholar with an expertise in college student well-being, sense of belonging, and religious identity and outcomes in college. Dr. Riggers-Piehl specializes in critical quantitative investigation into the experiences of students in college with a special focus on campus climate for religious students and historically excluded students in STEM.