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M. Susan Hallbeck
Biography
Dr. Susan Hallbeck, PE, CPE is the Scientific Director of Human Factors Engineering and Professor of Health Care Systems Engineering in the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Healthcare Delivery and a Consultant in Health Care Delivery Research, as well as a Consultant in Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Dr. Hallbeck is a Past-President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is currently the President of the Society for Surgical Ergonomics. Dr. Hallbeck is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Certified Professional Ergonomist.

Susan earned her PhD from Virginia Tech, her MS from Texas Tech and her BS from Iowa State University, all in Industrial Engineering. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, Dr. Hallbeck was a professor at the University of Nebraska in Industrial Engineering for 25 years and is now an emerita professor there.

Dr. Hallbeck is an elected Fellow of both the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the International Ergonomics Association. Dr. Hallbeck has over 300 peer-reviewed articles. She is on the editorial boards of Applied Ergonomics and Human Factors in Health Care and a society representative and guest editor for the American Journal of Surgery.