Melissa is a Board Certified Professional Ergonomist and an EH&S specialist for the Department of Occupational Medicine at UCSF. Working with the University of California's Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), she is also an instructor and development team member of...Read more about Melissa Afterman, MS-HFE, CPE
Senior engineer on staff at the UCB/UCSF Ergonomics Graduate Training Program
Alan has degrees in biomechanics and biomedical engineering. He is the senior engineer on staff at the UCB/UCSF Ergonomics Graduate Training Program. He spent the last 13 years collaborating on research related to health and safety issues surrounding the use of hand-operated drills used in...Read more about Alan Barr, MS
Garrett Brown is a Certified Industrial Hygienist who has a Master in Public Health for UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. For more than 20 years, Brown worked for the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) as a field compliance officer and later as Special...Read more about Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH
Assistant professor, jointly appointed in the UC Davis School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences and School of Veterinary Medicine Department of Medicine and Epidemiology
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis Professor
Professor Fadi Fathallah, PhD, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis, provides lectures in the Ergonomics course at UC Berkeley. His expertise in spine biomechanics (with Professor Krause’s expertise in low back pain) helps to fill a previously...Read more about Fadi Fathallah, PhD
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Professor
Professor Ken Goldberg, MS, PhD, joined the university five years ago and is responsible for teaching human factors courses in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley. He lectures on human factors issues in the Ergonomics course (PH269C...Read more about Ken Goldberg, MS, PhD
Meg is an EH&S specialist for the Department of Occupational Medicine at UCSF. She also serves and an instructor and development team member working with the University of California Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (...Read more about Meg Honan, MS, CPE, PT
Dr. Niklas Krause, MD, MPH, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF with expertise in the epidemiology of low back pain related to work and psychosocial and work organizational factors. Professor Krause lectures in PH269C and PH269D and advises students conducting...Read more about Dr. Niklas Krause, MD, MPH, PhD
Interim Co-Director of the Industrial Hygiene Program
As Interim Co-Director of the Industrial Hygiene program in the Northern California NIOSH Education and Research Center at the Northern California Center of Occupational and Environmental Health, I provide leadership in mentoring, teaching and research opportunities to student trainees in...Read more about Elizabeth Noth, PhD, CIH
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, College of Engineering
Research Description:
Biomechanics of cartilage and intervertebral disc; tissue engineering; continuum modeling of soft tissues; intervertebral disc function, degeneration, and regenerationRead more about Grace O’Connell
Jim received a B.H.K. in Kinesiology from the University of Windsor (1986) and a M.Sc. (1988) and Ph.D. (1992) in biomechanics from the University of Waterloo. He was a professor for 23 years at the University of Guelph, University of Windsor and McMaster University, where is he now a...Read more about Dr. Jim Potvin, PhD, CCPE
Professor Emeritus David Rempel MD, MPH, started the UC Ergonomics Program in 1991. He has been teaching, doing research, and consulting in the field of ergonomics for 20 years and is a Certified Professional Ergonomist. He continues his research part-time through...Read more about David Rempel, MD, MPH
Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University, Director, Office Ergonomics Research Committee.
Michelle is a Board Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) and holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology, M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Human Factors/Ergonomics from the University of California Santa Barbara. She is a Fellow of the...Read more about Dr. Michelle Robertson, PhD, CPE