Ed Israelski

Ed Israelski PhD, consultant, is retired director of human factors at AbbVie, since 2001, where he led a cross-division team and managed an R&D group to imbed best-practice human factors engineering HFE design methods into all of AbbVie's products, to ensure safety and usability. He was responsible for corporate HFE policies and guidances and internal HF education. He is past co-chair of the Human Factors Committee for the AAMI Standards organization and co-convener of the medical device Usability Engineering groups for the international standards organizations ISO and IEC. He is a board Certified Human Factors Professional and a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.