Maria Woloshynowych

Maria Woloshynowych, BSc, PhD, RGN, CPsychol
Research Fellow

Clinical Risk Unit
Department of Psychology
1-19 Torrington Place
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT

Phone: +44 20 7679 1607
Fax: +44 20 7679 1647
e-mail: m.woloshynowych@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

Maria trained and worked as a nurse before undertaking her first degree in Psychology. As part of her degree she spent a year working on a research project investigating patients' beliefs and intentions when visiting their General Practitioner. She completed her PhD in the Department of Psychology at UCL, which focused on reducing anxiety in patients undergoing medical procedures. Subsequent research at Queen Mary and Westfield College explored decision making in doctors when prescribing treatment for patients with heart failure. She joined the Clinical Risk Unit at UCL in 1998, where she is involved in a number of research projects in clinical risk management including risk perception and adverse events.

Maria, together with Pam La Rose, designed and produced the Clinical Risk Unit webpages.

Publications and Conferences

Neale G, Woloshynowych M, Vincent C. (2001) Exploring the causes of adverse events in NHS hospital practice. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 94, 322-30

Woloshynowych M. (2001) Are patients really at risk in the NHS? Presentation at the 3rd Risk Management Conference, 22-23 March 2001

Vincent C, Neale G, Woloshynowych M. (2001) Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review. BMJ, 322, 517-519

Woloshynowych M, Neale G, Vincent C. (2000) Adverse events in hospitalised patients: a pilot study and preliminary findings. Clinical Governance Bulletin, 1(2), 2-3

Seymour L, Woloshynowych M, Adams S. (2000) Patient perception of risk associated with elective heart surgery. The Healthcare Risk Resource, 3 (1), 8-11

Woloshynowych M, Taylor-Adams SE. (1999) The perception of risk in obstetric care by obstetric healthcare professionals. The Healthcare Risk Resource, 2 (3), 14-17

Poses RM, Woloshynowych M, Chaput de Saintonge DM. (1998) Why Do Doctors Disagree When the Evidence is Clear? - Physicians' Judgements of the Outcomes of Therapy for Patients with Heart Failure, Brunswik Society Newsletter, 13 (1)

Woloshynowych M, Valori R, Salmon P. (1998) General practice patients' beliefs about their symptoms. British Journal of General Practice, 48, 885-889

Trojan J, Saunders BP, Woloshynowych M, Debinsky HS, Williams CB (1997) Immediate recovery of psychomotor function after patient-administered nitrous Oxide/Oxygen inhalation for colonoscopy. Endoscopy. 29 (1) 17-22

Chaput de Saintonge DM, Woloshynowych M, Poses RM. (1997) Why Do Doctors Disagree When the Evidence Is Clear? A Study of the Impact of Clinical Trials and Conflicts of Values. Brunswik Society Newsletter, 12 (1)

Woloshynowych M, Oakley DA, Saunders BP, Williams CB. (1996) Psychological aspects of gastrointestinal endoscopy: a review. Endoscopy, 28, 763-767

Salmon P, Woloshynowych M, Valori R. (1996) The measurement of beliefs about physical symptoms in English general practice patients. Social Science & Medicine, 42, 1561-1567

Valori R, Woloshynowych M, Bellenger N, Aluvihare V, Salmon P. (1996) The Patient Requests Form: a way of measuring what patients want from their general practitioner. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 40, 87-94

Woloshynowych M, Oakley DA, Williams CB. (1995) Relaxation and coping instruction as preparation for endoscopy. Presented at the Special Group of Health Psychology of the British Psychological Society Conference.

Woloshynowych M, Ogden J. (1993) Predictors of smoking cessation following the introduction of a university-wide smoking ban. Presented at the Special Group of Health Psychology of the British Psychological Society Conference.