Presenter

Sarah Piperato, Ph.D., is a Human Factors Manager at Core Human Factors, A Rimkus
Company. She has over 10 years of experience conducting qualitative and quantitative
research within industry and academia. Sarah holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the
University of South Carolina and an M.S. in Kinesiology from Indiana University of
Pennsylvania. She has worked as a human factors consultant for the past six years,
specializing in medical devices and combination products. Sarah supports large and
small medical device and pharmaceutical companies with product portfolios spanning
many areas of the healthcare space. Additionally, she has been a member of the Core
Institutional Review Board (IRB) for six years and served as the IRB Chair for the past
three years. Core IRB specializes in reviewing research plans for the ethical treatment of human subjects within social-behavioral and human factors research. Core IRB is
registered with the Office of Human Research Protections.