Dr. Lukasz Mazur earned his BS, MS, and PhD in industrial and management engineering from Montana State University. He is an associate professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Library and Information Science (SILS) and in the UNC-Chapel Hill Radiation Oncology Department at the UNC School of Medicine. His research interests include healthcare engineering management as it pertains to continuous quality and patient safety efforts in healthcare and human factor engineering with a focus on workload and individual performance during health care providers’ interactions with health information technology. His research has been funded by by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to develop simulation-based training and innovative usability enhancements to improve patient safety. While at the North Carolina State University, Lukasz was awarded the prestigious Alumni Outstanding Extension Service Award for his outreach work in healthcare industry, highlighting his passion for patient safety and operational improvements.
2012 Best Paper of the Year from the American Society of Engineering Management: Mazur LM, McCreery J, Rothenberg L. Facilitating Lean learning and behaviors in hospitals during the early stages of lean implementation. Engineering Management Journal. 24(1):11-22, 2012.
2013 Innovation Pilot Award Recipient, School of Medicine Center for Innovation ($50K).
(Only winners of the college-level Outstanding Extension Service Award are eligible for membership into the Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension (AOFEE). Only two faculty may be nominated from Corporate Extension Service. Eight new members can be selected annually from the pool of 25 college- and unit-level extension outstanding service nominees, based on thematically driven categories, which reflect issues and concerns of critical interest to the citizens of the state).
(Recognizes outstanding extension, engagement, and economic development activities. They are directly parallel in intent to the University’s Outstanding Teaching Awards. They are not intended to recognize personal activities unrelated to the individual’s work area or University sponsored programs).
(Honors faculty who excel in extension and outreach. The funding support for these awards comes from the North Carolina license plate program, $4K).
Book: Marks LM and Mazur LM, with contributions from Chera B and Adams R. Engineering Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology, in CRC Press: Taylor and Francis Group. 2014.
Mosaly P, Mazur LM, Fei Y, Guo H, Merck D, Moore C, Marks L, Mostafa J. Relating Task Demand, Mental Effort and Task Difficulty with Physicians’ Performance during Interactions with Electronic Health Records (EHRs). International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Accepted (June 29th, 2017).
Venkitasubramanian A, Yannayon J, Kim B, Donahue D, Koromia GA, Doshi N, Venkateswaran A, Arellano C, Mazur LM. Q-Tip: Empirical Evaluation of Hand Hygiene Compliance. American Journal of Medical Quality (AMJQ). 28(1):81, 2013. doi.org/10.1177/1062860612464733. Selected as first publication of the combined efforts between AJMQ and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School to disseminate student projects (Role: Lead faculty advisor for student authors).
Mazur LM, McCreery J, Rothenberg L. Facilitating Lean Learning and Behaviors in Hospitals during the Early Stages of Lean Implementation. Engineering Management Journal. 24(1):11-22, 2012.