Daved van Stralen

Daved van Stralen serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, specializing in High-Reliability Organizing (HRO) within healthcare systems. His work focuses on enhancing neonatal care and disaster response through organizational theory and systems improvement.

His educational background includes:

• MD (1984)
• BA (1980)

Van Stralen's research examines how medical organizations achieve reliability amid discontinuities, threats, and compressed timeframes. He investigates moral agency in HRO systems, allostasis under stress, and liminal spaces as learning environments—bridging organizational behavior with practical neonatal care. His framework addresses communication breakdowns during patient handoffs and ethical decision-making in crisis scenarios, aiming to reduce medical errors through system redesign.

Analysis of his 2020-2025 publications reveals a concentrated exploration of HRO applications in disaster medicine and neonatology. Key trends include the psychological impact of time pressure on clinical teams, the role of subjective experience in organizational continuity, and motivation systems derived from liminal learning spaces. This body of work establishes HRO as critical infrastructure for patient safety in high-stakes medical environments.