Department of Surgery Faculty
Ross E. Willis, PhD
Assistant Professor, Research
Director of Surgical Education
Division: Administration
Email: willisr@uthscsa.edu
Education:
PhD, Cognitive Psychology, Texas Tech Univeristy, 1999
MA, Human Factors Psychology, Texas Tech University, 1995
BA, Psychology, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1992
Research interests: Team performance and training, individual differences in the acquisition of surgical skills, adaptive instructional techniques
Publications:
Willis RE, Richa J, Oppeltz R, Nguyen P, Wagner K, Van Sickle KR, Dent DL.
Comparing
three pedagogical approaches to psychomotor skills acquisition.
Am J Surg. 2012 Jan;203(1):8-13. Epub 2011 Nov 16.
Willis RE, Coverdill JE, Mellinger JD, Collins JC, Potts JR 3rd, Dent DL. Views of surgery program directors on the current ACGME and proposed IOM duty-hour standards. J Surg Educ. 2009 Jul-Aug;66(4):216-21.e1-10.
Shute, V. J., Torreano, L. A., & Willis, R. E. (2000). Tools to aid cognitive task analysis. In S. Chipman, V. Shalin, & J. Schraagen (Eds.) Cognitive Task Analysis, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Shute, V. J., Torreano, L. A., & Willis, R. E. (1999). Exploratory test of an automated knowledge elicitation and organization tool. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 10, 365.384.
Shute V. J., Torreano, L. A., & Willis, R. E. (1999). DNA: Towards an automated knowledge elicitation and organization tool. In S. P. Lajoie (Ed.), Cognitive tools, volume 2.
Jonassen, D., Shute, V. J., Willis, R. E., & Torreano, L. A. (1998). Decompose, Network, Assess (DNA). In D. Jonassen (Ed.) Handbook of Cognitive Task Analysis Tools, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Shute, V. J., Torreano, L. A., & Willis, R. E. (1998). DNA: Uncorking the bottleneck in knowledge elicitation and organization. In B. P. Goettl, H. M. Halff, C. L. Redfield, and V. J. Shute (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 4th annual conference proceedings (pp. 146-155). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
Willis, R. E. (1996). Toward an automated cognitive task analysis procedure. U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Armstrong Laboratory, San Antonio, TX.
Presentations:
Shute, V. J. & Willis, R. E. (1998, September). Efficiently Surfing the Internet
to Obtain Medical Data.
Paper presented at the Bexar County Medical Managers' Association Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Shute, V. J., Torreano, L. A., & Willis, R. E. (1998, August). DNA - Uncorking the bottleneck in knowledge elicitation and organization. Paper presented at the ITS '98 conference, San Antonio, TX.
Shute, V. J., Willis, R. E., & Sugrue, B. (1997, March). Automated Cognitive Task Analysis Procedure. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
Willis, R. E., & DeLucia, P. R. (1996, April). Effects of blur on visual performance: Toward a quantitative method. Poster session presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Houston, TX.
Marshall, P., Willis, R., Benzinger, A., Debus, J. & Sanchez, D. (1995, June). Effects of stimulus complexity and density on visual weight. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, NM.
Biosketch: Dr. Willis holds a master's degree in human factors psychology and a doctoral degree in cognitive psychology from Texas Tech University. After graduate school, he worked with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at Lackland Air Force Base conducting basic and applied research in the areas computer-based instruction and cognitive task analysis. He left research to co-found an e-learning company, while keeping touch with the academic world by holding a position as an adjunct professor at University of Houston. Dr. Willis recently chose to pursue his love of academia full-time and joined the UTHSCSA faculty in 2007.
Awards:
Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Internship Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Texas Tech University Experimental Psychology Scholarship, Texas Tech University Department of Psychology
