AREMA 2015 Annual Conference

Greg Placencia
Professor
University of Southern California


Dr. Greg Placencia is an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor in Industrial & Systems Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering, at the University of Southern California (USC). He specializes in human factors engineering, human-technology integration, and system safety. He has been teaching and conducting research for the past 5 years on risk reduction, reliability enhancement, and technological integration into complex technological systems, including healthcare, aviation, transportation, and criminal justice, and social work. He is currently working with the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA) / Metrolink investigating their implementation of Positive Train Control as part of an FTA grant at USC. He has presented at the JRC 2014 about the potential role of PTC automation in developing High Reliability Organizations and Safety Culture in rail at the JRC 2014 and I will be presenting at the upcoming JRC 2015 in March, about the role of psychological and cultural factors in accidents at New York’s Metro – North in 2013 – 2014, which required an unprecedented 5 separate NTSB investigations. He is also researching at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles how non-clinical environments affect children with invasive therapies (Home Mechanical Ventilation [HMV] and Total Parenteral Nutrition [TPN]), as well as the dynamics of insurance (payers) and their role in non-compliance by patients. He is also involved at Keck Hospital of USC researching team dynamics affecting operating room performance and patient outcomes. He is starting research on how to integrate systems engineering into criminal justice and social work areas including wrongful incarceration, developing early intervention tools and strategies for at risk youth, overpopulation and recidivism, and chronic problems with poor health care and non-ADA compliance using Engineering Methods. He is also involved in a start-up project with LAPD, LAUSC, KABC, and other private organizations examining the

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