Elizabeth (Liza) Lerner Papautsky, PhD, MS

Elizabeth Papautsky, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences in the UIC College of Applied Health Sciences. Her expertise is in human factors psychology. After working as a government contractor studying decision making in complex real-world environments (i.e., the military, intelligence analysis and healthcare) for a decade, she transitioned to academia to focus her research on patient-centered topics. Her primary research focus is on understanding patient cognitive and behavioral work across the breast cancer care continuum to inform human-centered support solutions. In her work she uses mixed-methods approaches that include Cognitive Task Analysis, naturalistic observations, surveys and usability.

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