AIR Hosts TeamSTEPPS Collaborative Conference on Team Training in Health Care on May 1-2, 2007

Washington, D.C. - The American Institutes for Research is hosting a two-day TeamSTEPPS Collaborative Conference on team training in health care on May 1-2, 2007 at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The conference brings together early adopters of the TeamSTEPPS training program to create partnerships that will promote research and develop team training in health care. The meeting is being organized by AIR and the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

TeamSTEPPS is an award-winning training curriculum developed by AIR and made available by AHRQ as the federal standard for training teamwork skills in health care. The federal agency is making TeamSTEPPS available free of charge to public and private hospitals.

About AIR
AIR, established in 1946 with headquarters in Washington, D.C., is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research on important social issues and delivers technical assistance both domestically and internationally in the areas of health, education, and workforce productivity.