Pascale Carayon, PhD, is Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Director of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She received her Engineer diploma from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, in 1984 and her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988.

She is the North American editor for Applied Ergonomics. In July 2006, she was elected as the Secretary General of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), and is the first woman to hold an officer position at the IEA. Dr. Carayon’s current research is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and various foundations and businesses.

Dr. Carayon leads the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety  (SEIPS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research on human factors engineering and patient safety has received funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (DCERPS-SEIPS; Challenge grant-Medication error reduction, technologies and human factors; and HIT implementation grant-CPOE implementation in ICUs). She is the editor of the recently published Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety.