Pascale Carayon
Credentials: Smart & Connected Healthcare Lead
Position title: Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Email: Pcarayon@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-0503
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- Wisconsin Institute for Healthcare Systems Engineering

Research Interests:
Dr. Carayon’s research belongs to the discipline of human factors engineering, in particular macroergonomics. Her scholarly contributions focused on modeling, assessing, and, improving work systems (i.e., the system of tasks performed by individuals using various technologies in a physical and organizational environment) in order to improve system performance and worker well-being. She has developed human factors and systems engineering methods and the SEIPS model to improve patient safety and health information technologies in complex health care settings. Dr. Carayon’s research has been funded by the AHRQ, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, various foundations, and private industry. She is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and a Fellow of the International Ergonomics Association.
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