Sarah E Ritvo, Ma, Phd Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

From enhancing MedTech safety and usability, to optimizing care delivery processes and organizational structures, I seek to improve healthcare people-system interactions and minimize errors by scientifically investigating the diverse factors that affect patient safety and system performance.

• Supported user-centered human factors research studies, including literature and heuristic review, ethnographic research, planning and logistics, user, task, and environment modeling, survey design and implementation, UI design, risk analysis, and failure modes and effects analysis• Simulated-use testing for formative and validation studies of products ranging from large-scale biomedical equipment, to single integral products, including study moderation, cognitive walkthrough, structured… Show more • Supported user-centered human factors research studies, including literature and heuristic review, ethnographic research, planning and logistics, user, task, and environment modeling, survey design and implementation, UI design, risk analysis, and failure modes and effects analysis• Simulated-use testing for formative and validation studies of products ranging from large-scale biomedical equipment, to single integral products, including study moderation, cognitive walkthrough, structured interview, and root cause analysis • Analyzed data using cognitive psychology, kinesiology, and engineering theory, ergonomic principles, and statistical analyses to deliver reports and recommendations that are accurate, concise, and comprehensible Show less

In co-operation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction is the leading venue in the rapidly expanding field of ACI. Grounded in theoretical and methodological foundations that have informed interaction design, ACI’s scope includes animal interaction with computing systems and animal-centred computing.

Toronto, On

Counseled and mentored undergraduate students, developed curriculum, prepared lesson materials, displays, and demonstrations, instructed tutorials, graded course assessments, and provided performance feedback.Courses: • Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 1010)• Research Methods (PSYC 2030)• Animal Behaviour (PSYC 3280)• Advanced Research in Psychology (PSYC 4170)

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Supervised 17 honors theses, from formulation of research questions through establishing methodologies, completing experiments, and discussing results, to presentation and publication of theses.Specifically:• Ensured students’ work met the standards of the University and the academic discipline• Assisted with selection and planning of suitable research topics• Provided research consultations• Evaluated students' progress• Facilitated students' access to facilities or… Show more Supervised 17 honors theses, from formulation of research questions through establishing methodologies, completing experiments, and discussing results, to presentation and publication of theses.Specifically:• Ensured students’ work met the standards of the University and the academic discipline• Assisted with selection and planning of suitable research topics• Provided research consultations• Evaluated students' progress• Facilitated students' access to facilities or research materials• Supervised adherence to undergraduate honour thesis class requirements, deadlines, etc.• Graded and revised research proposals and theses• Assisted in compliance required revisions for final thesis submission and acceptance Show less

Div. 6 is devoted to studying the biology of behavior with a focus on behavior and its relation to perception, learning, memory, cognition, motivation, and emotion. Behavioral neuroscientists study the brain in relation to behavior, its evolution, functions, abnormalities, and repair, as well as its interactions with the immune system, cardiovascular system, and energy regulation systems. Comparative psychologists study the behavior of humans and other animals, with a special eye on… Show more Div. 6 is devoted to studying the biology of behavior with a focus on behavior and its relation to perception, learning, memory, cognition, motivation, and emotion. Behavioral neuroscientists study the brain in relation to behavior, its evolution, functions, abnormalities, and repair, as well as its interactions with the immune system, cardiovascular system, and energy regulation systems. Comparative psychologists study the behavior of humans and other animals, with a special eye on similarities and differences that may shed light on evolutionary and developmental processes. Show less

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• Monitored and facilitated healthy, sustainable behavior change by challenging prostate cancer patients to examine their cognitive and emotional states, identify their values, and transform their goals into action during cancer treatment• Drew on principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and the practices of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and goal setting, to minimize reactance and elicit healthy behaviour change

Toronto, On

• Investigated the lifetime prevalence of, and psychological variables associated with, persistent pain in a community sample of children and adolescents. • Recruited 1022 individuals and administered several scales and indexes including the CASI, the CPASS, the MASC-10 and the PCS-C.• Acknowledged contributor to "Persistent pain in a community-based sample of children and adolescents: Sex differences in psychological constructs" (2011)

Certificate In Business And Consulting ("Mini Mba")

The Certificate in Business and Consulting, also referred to as the "mini MBA", is designed to provide graduate students and post-docs.

Ma, Cognitive Psychology

Activities and Societies: Animal Behavior Society (ABS), Comparative Cognition Society (CCS), American Psychological Association (APA)

Bhsc (Hons) (Summa Cum Laude), Psychology & English Literature

Activities and Societies: Research associate for Dr. Joel Katz, Honours thesis

Phd, Cognitive Psychology

Activities and Societies: International Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI) Conference, Animal Behavior Society (ABS), Comparative Cognition.