Sacha Duff Email & Phone Number

Helo, I am a Human Factors Design Engineer with a background in aviation and healthcare. My last job was the Team Lead of the HMI Design of helicopter and fixed wing optionally piloted vehicles. This allowed a virtual teammate to work with single pilot operations in cases where two pilots are usually necessary. We were working for DARPA on this project. In this role I worked first as a consultant and was later hired by Sikorsky full time. During the time I was consulting I was also working on a system that would read medical charts and flag unusual treatments to help guide reeducation for physicians. In addition I worked on an agent based-model to look at the effect of different security measures in terms of cost and safety. Prior work includes redesigning the military operating room of the future. I worked with TATRC on this project and collected data at Cedars-Sinai hospital in CA. I am particularly interested in how human factors will be incorporated into AI both from a teamwork and human error perspective. I would also like to guide the US into a national healthcare system. The start to this is always the main goal which is to prevent human error from becoming an adverse event. In this pursuit, human factors experts are looking at the relationship between the human and machine. What we see is something that is usually invisible, the emergent features of designing and implementing a new system. Whether that’s a part, task, tool, an entire workspace, technology, system and/or provide communication and coordination training. I will always love aviation thanks to my time at ERAU and familial ties to aviation. It stays in the blood always. However healthcare is so ripe for human factors now whether that is devices, spaces, or whole systems. Things like the fact that tools still get stuck in surgical cases and medication bottles have almost identical features making it easy to grab the wrong dose. That there are noises going off constantly to the point they get tuned out is still a problem in healthcare. These problems and (many) more make me feel called to healthcare. I also love research and writing grants too. I would love to find my team somewhere where I can work with other experts in either AI teaming or healthcare human factors.