Alumni

James McNicholas

Director

Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Degree program: MPH (UCSF Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program)

Graduated: 2021

Areas of Interest: Labor law, industrial regulation, workers' compensation

Employment: Director of Occupational Health Services at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Testimonial: As a Targeted Research Training grant recipient, I've developed close working relationships with world class academic epidemiologists and anticipate not only publishing our shared research, but...

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Aman Mehrotra

Student Researcher

Human Factors & Ergonomics

Degree Program: Masters of Information Management Systems

Graduated: 2025

Area(s) of Interest: Aman is a MIMS candidate at Berkeley's iSchool focusing on UX Research, emphasizing ergonomics and human factors. Areas of interest include consumer electronics, wearable technologies, and healthcare.

Projects: Sonography design, Pipette design

Desired Employment: Hardware UX

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Rieke Meyer

Student Researcher

Human Factors & Ergonomics

Degree Program: Masters of Science

Expected Graduation: 2023

Area(s) of interest: Rieke is a visiting graduate student in medical engineering from Austria and Germany. Her interests include exoskeletons and their impact on the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders, as well as the development and application of prostheses.

Project(s): Data collection and analysis of the usability and safety of passive arm and shoulder exoskeletons for construction workers

Desired Employment: ...

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Brandon Phillips

Student Researcher

Human Factors & Ergonomics

Degree Program: Ph.D.

Graduated: 2024

Area(s) of Interest: Biomechanics, Worker Health, Occupational Safety

Project(s): Currently he is studying user experience with exoskeletons including analysis of dynamic posture stability using force plates.

Desired Employment: Academia/Industry

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Dominic Piña

Student Researcher

Human Factors & Ergonomics

Degree Program: Masters of Public Health

Expected graduation: 2023

Area(s) of Interest: Dominic is an MPH candidate in the Environmental Health Sciences department with an emphasis in Human Factor/Ergonomics at the School of Public Health. Her current interests include working with essential workers to prioritize their health and safety in the workplace, physical ergonomics, and industrial hygiene.

Project(s): Dominic has been involved in a couple of research projects at the UC Ergonomics Lab. In the...