Summary
Bob Klaber is a Consultant General Paediatrician & Director of Strategy, Research & Innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Bob trained as an educationalist alongside his postgraduate paediatric training in London and has a strong interest in individual and systems learning, quality improvement, digital innovation, behavioural insights work, leadership development and kindness. He has completed a mixed methods MD researching leadership approaches in healthcare.
In 2015 Bob set up a team who continue to drive an ambitious project to create a culture of continuous quality improvement across Imperial, has worked as Deputy Medical Director and has led work on the development and implementation of the Trust’s new organisational strategy. In his current director role he is responsible for strategy, research, innovation and improvement across Imperial College Healthcare, and within this role works closely with the senior leadership team with the Faculty of Medicine and Imperial College.
Bob is also a strong advocate for child health and co-leads the Connecting Care for Children (CC4C) integrated child health programme in North West London www.cc4c.imperial.nhs.uk , which is focused on developing whole population integrated care models of care and learning within paediatrics and child health.
Publications
Journals
Klaber RE, Roland D, 2012, Engaging paediatricians in planning the training of our future workforce, Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol:97, ISSN:0003-9888, Pages:517-520
Klaber RE, Roland D, 2012, Engaging paediatricians in planning the training of our future workforce, Archives of Disease in Childhood-education and Practice Edition, Vol:97, ISSN:1743-0585, Pages:517-U62
Brennan L, Watson M, Klaber R, et al., 2012, HOSPITAL EPISODE STATISTICS The importance of knowing context of hospital episode statistics when reconfiguring the NHS, British Medical Journal, Vol:344, ISSN:1756-1833
Reece A, Klaber R, 2012, Maximising learning on ward rounds, Archives of Disease in Childhood-education and Practice Edition, Vol:97, ISSN:1743-0585, Pages:61-67
Klaber RE, Mellon AF, Melville CA, 2010, Educational supervision, Archives of Disease in Childhood-education and Practice Edition, Vol:95, ISSN:1743-0585, Pages:124-130