Presenter

Thomas is an experienced senior human factors consultant responsible for the management, planning, implementation, and reporting of human factors research during the design and development of medical devices, particularly in drug delivery and combination products. His work involves early-stage exploratory and formative studies with various design concepts, through to rigorous validation studies with the final design in accordance with regulatory requirements for Human Factors Engineering (HFE). More recently, Thomas has worked in supporting actual use studies for global clients to meet FDA requirements.

Thomas has over 9 years’ experience working in medical device development consultancy and has worked for multiple global pharmaceutical and biotech companies during that time, including as a senior human factors engineer at AstraZeneca. Thomas has moderated over 500 interviews for various medical devices with caregivers, healthcare professionals, patients and healthy volunteers in the United Kingdom, United States and Europe.

Thomas has a PhD in home-use medical device design from Loughborough University’s Design School, as well as a BSc in design with engineering materials and a diploma in industrial studies (DIS) with Smiths Medical International as a research and development engineer.