Ed IsraelskiAffiliate
About
Ed Israelski is director of human factors at AbbVie, a biopharmaceutical company. He joined the company in 2001, where he leads a cross-company team to imbed best-practice human factors engineering HFE design methods into all of AbbVie’s products, to ensure safety and usability. He does this through hands-on design and evaluation of key new products, training internal resources, writing corporate policy and guidelines and facilitating the use of outside professional HFE resources.
Ed is past co-chair of the AAMI Human Factors Engineering committee, which develops HF standards for medical devices. He is also the convener for IEC and ISO Ergonomic groups in developing international HF medical devices standards. He is a certified human factors professional CHFP. He has authored fifteen book chapters and numerous articles in the area of human factors. Ed holds thirty patents. He is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and a member of APA, UPA and previously the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Human-System Design Support for Changing Technology. He has served as a juror for the MDEA Medical Design Excellence Awards. He was selected by MDDI magazine as one of the 100 Notable People in the Medical Device industry in 2008. He is on the editorial board for the journal Human Factors and serves as a regular reviewer for several other scientific journals.
He has worked as a systems engineer, product manager, market researcher, industrial/organizational psychologist as well as a human factors engineer. He was technical manager of the human factors systems group at Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs, formerly AT&T. Later he was director of HF for SBC/Ameritech where his organization supported the design and evaluation of user interfaces for telecommunications products. In 2000, he became chief technology officer at Human Factors International, a user interface design and consulting firm in information technology. Ed is an adjunct instructor at Northwestern Univ and Virginia Tech and previously for New Jersey Institute of Technology.
As a Segal mentor and advisor, Ed generously lends his time and professional expertise to review student projects and improve Segal programming.
Education
BS, Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
MS, Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, NY
PhD, Industrial and Engineering Psychology, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ