Biomedical Engineer
US Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Kontson received her B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD in Biomedical Engineering. She is currently a biomedical engineer with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories (OSEL), and also serves as a subject matter expert in human factors/usability engineering to the Office of Product Evaluation and Quality Human Factors Review Team. As the program coordinator for the OSEL Human-Deivce Interaction research program, Dr. Kontson's current research interests include development of regulatory science tools to support evaluation of wearable technologies, clinical outcome assessment development for advanced prosthetic devices, and human performance and ergonomic evaluation during the use of augmented reality and virtual reality devices.
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