| Start Date: | 4/5/2017 | Start Time: | 4:00 PM |
| End Date: | 4/5/2017 | End Time: | 5:30 PM |
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Event Description
BIOMED Seminar
Title:
Making Medical Devices Safe and Easy to Use
Speaker:
Stephen B. Wilcox, PhD, FIDSA
Design Science
Philadelphia, PA
Abstract:
The seminar will describe the various methods that are incorporated into the product-design process to address safety and ease of use. It will include a discussion of observational research, risk analysis, prototype testing, and expert analysis—what they consist of, how they are done, some of the difficulties associated with them, and how they fit into the design process.
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Biosketch:
Stephen Wilcox, PhD, FIDSA, is a principal and the founder of Design Science (Philadelphia), a 40-person consultancy that specializes in optimizing the usability and safety of healthcare-related products for clients that include many of the largest manufacturers worldwide, such as Johnson & Johnson, Baxter, Medtronic, Fresenius, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, BD, Otsuka, Merck, and Novartis. Dr. Wilcox is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America’s (IDSA) Academy of Fellows. He served for several years as Chair of the IDSA Human Factors Professional Interest Section.
Dr. Wilcox serves on the Advisory Boards of the Industrial Design Department of Philadelphia University and at the School of Design of Carnegie Mellon University, as well as on the Human Factors Engineering and the Home Use Environment Committees of AAMI, the ISO/IEC committee (“Working Group 4”) that wrote the medical-device human factors standard, IEC/ISO 62366, and on the Editorial Board of Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry.
Dr. Wilcox holds a BS in psychology and anthropology from Tulane University, a PhD in experimental psychology from Penn State University, and a Certificate in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has won a number of design awards, has guest edited the journal Innovation several times, has served as a judge for a number of product design award competitions, and has chaired the national IDSA Design Conference and the London-based Include Conference on Inclusive Design.
Dr. Wilcox has given hundreds of invited addresses to various organizations, has published more than 70 articles in professional journals, and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society journal, Ergonomics in Design. His book titled, "Designing Usability into Medical Products" (CRC/Taylor & Francis), co-authored with Michael Wiklund, was published in 2005. |
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Location:
Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB), Room 120, located on the northeast corner of 33rd and Chestnut Streets. |
Audience:
Undergraduate StudentsGraduate StudentsFacultyStaff |
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