Dr. Pratima Saravanan

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Areas of interest

Human factors and ergonomics

Cognitive performance

Healthcare Systems Engineering

Naturalistic decision making

Simulation-based training and assessment

Expert-novice differences

Skill acquisition

Mental workload

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Academic qualifications

Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2021

M.S in Industrial Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2020

M.S in Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2018

B.E in Biomedical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, India, 2015

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Academic positions

Postdoctoral Fellow, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, 2021-2023

Lecturer, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2022-2023

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Publications

Saravanan, P., Nisar, T., Zhang, Q., Masud, F., & Sasangohar, F. (2023). Occupational stress and burnout among intensive care unit nurses during the pandemic: A prospective longitudinal study of nurses in COVID and non-COVID units. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1129268.

Saravanan, P., & Menold, J. (2023). Mining Literature to Identify Factors Influencing Prosthetic Prescription and Rehabilitation of Persons with Lower-Limb Amputations. JPO: Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics, 35(3), 131-138.

Saravanan, P., Masud, F., Kash, B. A., & Sasangohar, F. (2022). Investigating burn-out contributors and mitigators among intensive care unit nurses during COVID-19: a focus group interview study. BMJ open, 12(12), e065989.

Saravanan, P., & Menold, J. (2022). Deriving effective decision-making strategies of prosthetists: Using hidden markov modeling and qualitative analysis to compare experts and novices. Human Factors, 64(1), 188-206.