Emily Patterson

Emily Patterson is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the College of Nursing and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Dr. Patterson is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Dr. Patterson specializes in human factors, patient safety, and health informatics. She has served as a Principal Investigator or co-investigator on $28M in funding, including for the VA, the Air Force, the Navy, and the National Patient Safety Foundation. She is an expert in qualitative methods, and particularly for cognitive task analysis, ethnographic observations, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and co-design sessions with stakeholders. She served as a scientific advisor on using human factors engineering to improve patient safety for The Joint Commission, the National Board of Medical Examiners, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, ECRI, and the Society of Hospital Medicine. She gave invited presentations to the Institute of Medicine and the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. Overall, Dr. Patterson has an h-index of 49 on Google Scholar with over 10,000 citations.