Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safetey

Pascale Carayonis Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Director of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI) at the University of Wisconsin/Madison. She received her Engineer diploma from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, in 1984 and her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin/Madison in 1988. Her research areas include systems engineering, human factors and ergonomics, sociotechnical engineering and occupational health and safety. She is a scientific editor forApplied Ergonomicsand a member of the editorial board of theJournal of Patient Safety. She is the chair of the technical committee on Organizational Design And Management of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), and is a member of the executive committee of the IEA, in charge of the Ergonomics In Quality Design (EQUID) program and chair of the Science, Technology and Practice committee. Dr. Carayon's current research is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and various foundations and businesses. Dr. Carayon leads the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Carayon, Pascale is the author of 'Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safetey ' with ISBN 9780805848854 and ISBN 0805848851.