Presenter

Carisa Harris Adamson, PhD, CPE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). She is the Deputy Director of the Northern California Center of Occupational & Environmental Health at the University of California at Berkeley and the Director of the UCSF/UCB Ergonomics Research & Graduate Training Program. Dr. Harris and her team performs research in a variety of areas focused on understanding and preventing work related injuries and improving human performance, productivity and health. Her epidemiological research assesses and adjusts for healthy worker survivor bias in the assessment of physical, personal and work psychosocial factors associated with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and subsequent work disability. Additionally, her team is developing and/or testing a variety of exposure assessment devices (wearables) for primary and secondary prevention purposes and performs various intervention studies on occupational tasks with high risk of musculoskeletal injuries, such as the implementation of passive exoskeletons in construction work.