Michael Wiklund serves as general manager of the human factors engineering (HFE) practice at UL (Underwriters Laboratories). Previously, he founded Wiklund Research & Design, a human factors consulting firm that UL acquired in 2012. He has 30+ years of experience in human factors engineering, much of which has focused on medical technology development; optimizing hardware and software users interfaces as well as user documentation. He is a certified human factors specialist and licensed professional engineer. He is author, co-author, and editor of several books on human factors/medical devices, including "Usability Testing of Medical Devices, "Handbook of Human Factors in Medical Device Design" and "Medical Device Use Error-Root Cause Analysis". He is a primary author for today's most pertinent standards and guidelines on human factors engineering for medical devices: AAMI HE75 and IEC 62366. In addition to leading UL's human factors, he is a Professor of the Practice at Tufts University where he teaches graduate courses in HFE, specializing in the application of HFE to medical technology development.