Douglas Wiegmann

Dr. Douglas (Doug) Wiegmann received his PhD in Psychology (1992) from Texas Christian University and earned a postdoctoral master’s degree in Biomedical Science from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in 2007. Currently, he is a Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Student Affairs within the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the faculty in Madison, he was an NIH Roadmap Scholar at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine where he also served as the Director of Human Factors and Patient Safety Research within the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery. Dr. Wiegmann has also served as an associate professor of Human Factors at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Earlier in his career, Dr. Wiegmann was an aviation psychologist and accident investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board and a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, serving as an Aerospace Experimental Psychologists (AEP) in both active duty and reserve capacities. He is a widely renowned expert in human factors and system safety and a fellow of both the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the American Psychological Association (APA).