Pascale Carayon Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Courses Education Fields of Interest Publications Awards & Honors Additional information on specific research projects Files and Links

Contact Information

Primary Address: 3126 Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706 Tel: 608/265-0503 Fax: 608/263-1425 E-mail: carayon@ie.engr.wisc.edu

Secondary Address: Tel: 608/262-9797 Fax: 608/262-8454

Program Affiliations

• Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Population Health Sciences

• Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement

Courses

• ISyE 549: Human Factors Engineering
• ISyE 565: Ergonomics in Service
• ISyE 653: Organization and Job Design
• ISyE 663: Occupational Stress
• ISyE 854: Special Topics in Organization Design

Education

• Engineer diploma, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France (1984)
• Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988)

Fields of Interest

• human factors and ergonomics
• job and organizational design
• quality and productivity improvement
• technological and organizational change
• human factors and systems engineering in healthcare and patient safety
• human factors and organizational issues in computer security

Publications

• Carayon, P., Wetterneck, T.B. and Hundt, A.S. "Nurses' acceptance of Smart IV pump technology" International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010, 79: 401-411.
• Carayon, P. "Human factors in patient safety as an innovation" Applied Ergonomics, 2010, 41(5): 657-665.
• Kraemer, S., Carayon, P. and Clem, J. (2009) "Human and organizational factors in computer and information security: Pathways to vulnerabilities" Computers & Security, vol.28, 509-520.
• Carayon, P. "The Balance Theory and the work system model... Twenty years later" International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 25(5): 313-327, 2009.
• Walker, J.M. and Carayon, P. "From tasks to processes: Repurposing health-information technology to improve healthcare" Health Affairs, 28(2):467-477, 2009.
• Gurses, A., Carayon, P. and Wall, M. "Impact of performance obstacles on intensive care nurses workload, perceived quality and safety of care, and quality of working life" Health Services Research, 44(2 Part I): 422-443, 2009.
• Walker, J.M., Carayon, P., Leveson, N., Paulus, R.A., Tooker, J., Chin, H., Bothe, A. Jr. and Stewart, W.F. "Electronic Health Records: The way forward to safe and effective systems" Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2008, 15(3): 272-277.
• Carayon, P. (Editor) Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 2007.
• Carayon, P., Hundt, A.S., Karsh, B.-T., Gurses, A.P., Alvarado, C.J., Smith, M. and Brennan, P.F. "Work system design for patient safety: The SEIPS model" Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2006, 15(suppl I): i50-i58.
• Kraemer, S. and Carayon, P. "Human errors and violations in computer and information security: The viewpoint of network administrators and security specialists" Applied Ergonomics, 2007, 38(2): 143-154.
• Carayon, P., Haims, M.C., Hoonakker, P. and Swanson, N. "Teamwork and musculoskeletal health in the context of work organization interventions in office and computer work" Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, vol.7, no.1, 39-69, 2006.
• Carayon, P. and Gurses, A. "Nursing workload and patient safety in intensive care units: A human factors engineering evaluation of the literature" Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, vol.21, 284-301, 2005.
• Warren, P., Hoonakker, P., Carayon, P. and Brand, J. "Job characteristics as mediators in SES-health relationship" Social Science and Medicine, vol.59, no.7, 1367-1378, 2004.
• Hoonakker, P., Loushine, T., Carayon, P., Kallman, J, Kapp, A. and Smith, M.J. "The effect of safety initiatives on safety performance: A longitudinal study", Applied Ergonomics, vol.36, no.4, 461-469, 2005.
• Korunka, C., Carayon, P., Sainfort, F., Scharitzer, D. and Hoonakker, P. "Quality in the public sector from an employee's perspective: Results from a transnational comparison", Total Quality Management, 2003, vol.14, no.5, 537-548.
• Carayon, P. and Haims, M.C. "Balanced work system and participation: Applications in the Community" Artificial Intelligence and Society, 2003, vol. 17, no.2.
• Korunka, C., Scharitzer, D., Sainfort, F. and Carayon, P. "Employee strain and job satisfaction related to an implementation of quality in a public service organization: A longitudinal study", Work and Stress, Vol 17(1), Jan-Mar 2003, pp. 52-72.
• Carayon, P. and Smith, M.J. "Work organization and ergonomics" Applied Ergonomics, vol. 31, no.6, pp.649-662, December 2000.
• Carayon, P. and Karsh, B. "Sociotechnical issues in the implementation of imaging technology", Behaviour and Information Technology, vol.19, no.4, pp.247-262, July-August 2000.
• Carayon, P., Smith, M.J. and Haims, M.C. "Work organization, job stress and work-related musculoskeletal disorders", Human Factors, vol.41, no.4, pp.644-663, December 1999.
• Haims, M.C. and Carayon, P. "Theory and practice for the implementation of 'in-house' continuous improvement participatory ergonomic programs" Applied Ergonomics, 1998, vol.29, no.6, pp.461-472.

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality
• North American scientific editor for Applied Ergonomics
• Fellow of the International Ergonomics Association
• Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Recipient of the 2007 College of Engineering Ragnar E. Onstad Service to Society Award
• Member of the National Research Council Committee on Human-Systems Integration
• Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality

Additional information on specific research projects

• For additional information on CQPI, see http://cqpi.engr.wisc.edu/
• For additional information on the "Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety" (SEIPS) program, see http://cqpi.engr.wisc.edu/seips_home
• For additional information on the AHRQ-funded project on "CPOE Implementation in ICUs", see http://cqpi2.engr.wisc.edu/cpoe/index.htm

Files and Links of Interest

• CV
• Community of Science Profile