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July 27, 2019
NAFE Summer Conference (Denver, CO), GM Samaras was a participant & speaker (Lecture title: Ergonomics & Forensic
Engineering).
August 2, 2018
Commentary: Stakeholder Dissonance Impedes Medical Device Cyber-Risk Reduction. AAMI Biomedical Instrumentation &
Technology. 52(4): 296-304, July/August 2018.
May 18-19, 2017
FDA Medical Device Cybersecurity Workshop, GM Samaras was a participant & invited moderator
March 2, 2017
Posted portfolio of essays on medical device product development
February 2017
GM Samaras became senior member of National Academy of Forensic Engineers and a Board-certified forensic engineer
September 9, 2016
Commentary: Confronting systemic challenges in interoperable medical device safety, security & usability. Journal of Biomedical
Informatics 63(2016) 226-234.
September 1, 2016
Article published in ASQ Biomedical Division Newsletter BioFeedback Vol 44(2):5-7, 2016: “What IS my Failure Rate?”
April 19-21, 2016
QMED Focus on Fundamentals 3-day Webinar on ”How to Manage Risk Throughout Medical Device Product Development Cycle and
Beyond”. To access the recorded audio and slide decks, register here.
August 11, 2015
Article published in ASQ Biomedical Division Newsletter BioFeedback Vol 43(2):15-18, 2015: “Medical Device Life Cycle Risk
Management”
May 20, 2015
Commentary in QMED on risk management: “Premarket vs. Postmarket: Applying Risk Management to Your Device's Entire Lifecycle”
October 31, 2014
Invited Lecture (EA Samaras) at CSU-Fort Collins, “Perspectives on Occupational & Environmental Health Nursing”, Spectrum of
Professions Protecting and Promoting Worker Health, MOUNTAIN AND PLAINS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER FOR
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
October 13, 2014
Commentary in QMED on dos and dont’s of medical device design: “Don’t: Use Detectability to Estimate Risk to End-Users”
August 13, 2014
Commentary in MD&DI on medical devices and human factors: “The Medical Device Is Safe, But Would I Use It?”
February 18, 2014
Commentary in QMED on medical devices and software: “Could-digital-health-make-most-medical-devices-obsolete”
September 26, 2013
Commentary on QMED article: “Can Medical Device Engineers and Quality Control Staff Get Along?”
July 29, 2013
Article published in MD+DI Online on medical device risk management: Use, Misuse, and Abuse of the Device Failure Modes Effects
Analysis
November 8, 2012
Manuscript on regulated product development and innovation entitled “US Medical Device Innovation: Moving from the Bench to Market” presented at IEEE Healthcare Innovation Conference: Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine, Houston, TX November 7-9, 2012August 28, 2012
Tutorial present at IEEE EMBC 2012 (San Diego, CA): “Human Centered Systems Engineering: Human Factors from Lust to Dust”.
August 10, 2012
Article published in MD+DI Online on medical device innovation: Exactly What Medical Device Innovation Are You Talking About?
July 8, 2012
New website launched, replacing 12-year old web pages.
June 18, 2012
Tutorial presented at IEEE PHM 2012 (Denver, CO): “Human-Centered Systems Engineering - Human Factors Engineering and
Reliability”
June 12, 2012
Commentary on medtechinsider article: “Small Companies Suffer Most from US FDA’s 510(k) Process, Survey Says”, originally
published in J. Med. Devices 6, 021015 (2012).
June 2012
Letter to the Editor, June 2012 issue of ASQ Quality Progress regarding risk analysis published: “Risky Tool?”
May 23, 2012
Article in Medical Electronics Design published: “Medical Device Mechatronics Maturity”.
April 2012
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry magazine publishes article: “A Perspective on Invention, Innovation, and Regulation of Medical
Devices”.
March 23, 2012
Online Journal of Nursing Informatics publishes article: “Stakeholder Dissonance as a Critical Determinant of an E-health Initiative: A
Case Study”
March 19, 2012
Tutorial presented at IEEE SysCon 2012 (Vancouver, BC): “Human-Centered Systems Engineering: Managing Complex Systems”.
February 12 - 16, 2012
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Paper presented at IEA 2012 (Recife, BR): “Recognizing nurse stakeholder dissonance as a critical determinant of patient safety
in new healthcare information technologies”.
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Tutorial presented at IEA 2012 (Recife, BR): “Human-Centered Systems Engineering: Human Factors Engineering from Lust to
Dust”.
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Paper presented at IEA 2012 (Recife, BR): “Reducing Latent Errors, Drift Errors, and Stakeholder Dissonance: Discriminating
NWDs, Requirements, and Specifications”.
January 2012
Letter to the Editor, January 2012, Communications of the ACM published: “Software Engineering Is Engineering”
October 13, 2011
Tutorial presented at IEEE PSES 2011 (San Diego, CA): “Human-Centered Systems Engineering: A Unified Approach to Product
Safety Engineering”.
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