Useful Organizations

 Agency for Health Quality Research
540 Gaither Road
Rockville, MD 20850
Telephone: 301.427.1364
http://www.ahrq.gov/

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
Human Factors Engineering Committee
Attention: Nick Tongson
1110 North Glebe Road, Suite 220
Arlington, VA 22201-4795
Telephone: 703.525.4890
http://www.aami.org/

FDA/Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Human Factors Program
Contact: Peter Carstensen, Human Factors Team Leader
1350 Piccard Drive
Rockville, MD 20850-4307
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/humanfactors/index.html

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Health Care Technical Group
P.O. Box 1369, Santa Monica, CA 90406-1369
Telephone: 310.394.1811
http://www.hfes.org/

International Electrotechnical Commission
Human Engineering Committee
3, rue de Varembé
PO Box 131
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
Telephone: +41 22 919 02 11
http://www.iec.ch/index.html

Society for Medical Simulation
http://www.socmedsim.org/index.html
Chair: Daniel Raemer, Ph.D.
Center for Medical Simulation
65 Landsdowne St.,
Cambridge, MA 02139
draemer@partners.org

Society for Technology in Anesthesia
PMB 300, 223 N. Guadalupe
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Telephone: 505.983.4923
E-Mail: STA@anestech.org

Events: Conferences and Trade Shows

Medical Device Technology and Ergonomic Congress (MEK) 2005
Muenster, Germany
March 17-18, 2005
www.MEK-2005.com

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
15th Annual AAMI/FDA International Conference on Medical Device Standards and Regulation
Hyatt Regency, Reston, VA
March 23-24, 2005
http://www.aami.org/meetings/isc/index.html

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
Human Factors, Ergonomics, and Patient Safety for Medical Devices
Capitol Hilton, Washington, DC
June 28-30, 2005
http://www.aami.org/meetings/hf/index.html

See 2004 winners at: Medical Device & Manufacturing (MD&M) East
June 13-15, 2005
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 W. 34th St. (West 34th Street at 11th Avenue)
New York, NY
http://www.devicelink.com/expo/east04/