Jennifer Zamudio
Ph.D. Student
Industrial & Operations Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D. Student
Industrial & Operations Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Email: zamjen@umich.edu
Biography
I am a Ph.D. Student in the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. I am a member of the Interaction & Collaboration Research (ICRL) Lab under the guidance of Dr. Jessie Yang.
My research focuses on human factors engineering applications in healthcare, with a specific interest in enhancing team interactions, cognitive ergonomics, and well-being among healthcare professionals within stressful/high workload environments (e.g., robotic surgery, trauma care).
Ultimately, my goal is to contribute to the field as a professor, collaborating closely with embedded practitioners to drive improvements in the broader clinical system.
Education
- Ph.D. in Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (Present)
- B.A. in Psychology, California State University, Long Beach (2020)
Keep Up With My Latest Work ✍🏽
Figure for Paper Published in American Journal of Surgery, "Demands of Surgical Teams in Robotic-Assisted Surgery: An Assessment of Intraoperative Workload Within Different Surgical Specialties"
Robotic-assisted surgery creates new demands for teams that may jeopardize safety.
Quantifying workload by role and procedure type allows for specialized training.
Staff experienced significantly higher workload in gynecology and urology cases.
Surgeons and nurses mainly exceeded workload thresholds for performance safety.
Significant differences were reported for SURG-TLX domains by role and specialty.
Visual Abstract for Paper Published in Obesity Surgery, "Identifying Workflow Disruptions in Robotic-Assisted Bariatric Surgery: Elucidating Challenges Experienced by Surgical Teams"
Human factors engineering can aid in the identification of systems-level issues.
Our work showed that in robotic bariatric surgery, flow disruptions occur more frequently during robot docking and patient transfer phases at a higher rate than previously reported in other specialties (~every 2.4 min).
Coordination and environment disruptions occurred most frequently which has implications for future interventions addressing efficient team planning and case setup.
