Presenter

Dr. Susan Hallbeck is the Scientific Director of Human Factors Engineering in Mayo Clinic’s Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Healthcare Delivery. She is Professor of Health Care Systems Engineering, Consultant in Health Care Delivery Research and Consultant in Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Dr. Hallbeck is past president of both the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the Society for Surgical Ergonomics. Dr. Hallbeck is a licensed professional engineer and a certified professional ergonomist.

Dr. Hallbeck earned her PhD from Virginia Tech, her MS from Texas Tech and her BS from Iowa State University, all in Industrial Engineering. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, Dr. Hallbeck was Professor of Industrial Engineering for 25 years at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Dr. Hallbeck is an HFES Fellow and International Ergonomics Association Fellow. She won the Oliver Keith Hansen Outreach Award in 2025. She is on the editorial board of Applied Ergonomics and an associate editor of both Human Factors in Health Care and American Journal of Surgery.