Suresh P Gupta
Consultant

Suresh is a consultant in the Human Factors & User Research group, responsible for the management, planning and implementation of HF research activities, ranging from user requirements capture through to validation studies.

Because of his engineering background and research experience, he has had a variety of other roles within the product development, such engineering, risk management and statistical analysis.

“The best thing about working in this industry is that great feeling of being part of the development of medical devices that enhance the lives of millions of people around the globe.

Working at Team has been a fantastic opportunity for me. Everyone at Team follows the same mantra – developing safe and effective medical devices. My work is about ensuring medical devices work in the hands of end-users. This is not just about fulfilling regulatory requirements, such as FDA CFR 21, or compliance with certain standards, e.g. ISO 14971, but also about passionately understanding and meeting the intended users’ needs. We do this by continuously exploring and implementing appropriate HF methods at various stages of the product development cycle. Our clients are aware of our passion and they believe in our ’safe pair of hands’ – that is why they come to us with more and more work.”

Since joining Team, Suresh has played a major role in strengthening Team’s HF research and risk management service offering with emphasis on research methodologies. For example, Suresh has recently developed a novel user risk assessment technique named ‘State Space Analysis’ which has been successfully applied to a number of different client projects.

In his day to day role, Suresh has managed, planned and executed a number of human factors research studies – across a variety of therapeutic areas and product families – in the UK, USA, Europe and Canada. Suresh has also been very keen in exploring, developing and implementing statistical methods and tools to HF research and engineering projects.

Suresh has an MPhil and a PhD degree in Engineering Design from the University of Cambridge. His first degree was in Mechanical Engineering.