Presenter
Melissa Lemke
Biography
Melissa Lemke is the founder and Principal Human Factors Engineering and Accessibility Advisor with Human Ability Designs, a human factors consultancy that supports client organizations in optimizing user interface designs and achieving human factors regulatory success throughout the pre-market and post-market design process. Melissa is dedicated to helping clients develop and bring to market medical products that are safe, effective, and usable for people of all abilities through applying sound human factors engineering strategies and methods.
Melissa is a Biomedical Engineer with over 20 years of experience designing successful human factors regulatory strategies, leading cross functional teams, and executing human factors analyses of medical devices, combination products, training and labeling. She also is a lay caregiver for her brother with spinal cord injury.
Melissa is an active member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) as well as the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). She serves on AAMI’s Human Factors Engineering and Home Care and EMS Environments Committees. She is a contributing author to HE75: Human Factors Engineering - Design of Medical Devices several chapters within Applied Human Factors in Medical Device Design (2019) and Development of Biopharmaceutical Drug-Device Products (2020).
Melissa is a Biomedical Engineer with over 20 years of experience designing successful human factors regulatory strategies, leading cross functional teams, and executing human factors analyses of medical devices, combination products, training and labeling. She also is a lay caregiver for her brother with spinal cord injury.
Melissa is an active member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) as well as the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). She serves on AAMI’s Human Factors Engineering and Home Care and EMS Environments Committees. She is a contributing author to HE75: Human Factors Engineering - Design of Medical Devices several chapters within Applied Human Factors in Medical Device Design (2019) and Development of Biopharmaceutical Drug-Device Products (2020).