Allison Y, Strochlic, MS, CHFP UL LLC / UL-Wiklund

Allison Y. Strochlic is Research Director of the human factors engineering (HFE) team at UL–Wiklund. UL’s HFE team delivers HFE consulting services to the medical device, pharmaceutical, scientific instrument, and laboratory equipment industries. A board-certified human factors professional, Allison contributes to and manages research projects such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and interviews. Furthermore, she helps clients develop key HFE documents for their design history files, including use-related risk analyses, and advises clients on how apply HFE during device development to meet regulators' expectations. Allison routinely contributes to clients’ pre-submissions to and interactions with regulators, including leading HFE-related discussions during several high-stakes FDA-sponsor meetings.

Allison is co-author of Usability Testing of Medical Devices and several technical papers focused on applying HFE to medical device and combination products. She holds a B.S. in Human Factors from Tufts University and an M.S. in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley University.