In our Nexus Meets series, we chat to members of our community to learn more about them and who they’d like to work with.

My name is Jessica Parry, and I am a Senior Human Factors Consultant Manager and the Leeds Office Site Lead at ClariMed. I am passionate about helping medical device companies develop products that are safe and effective for use. I’m also very passionate about driving knowledge sharing, and I actively do this within my organisation, but I pursue opportunities outside of my organisation to do the same.

ClariMed is a life sciences consultancy company that specializes within human factors and usability engineering. We work alongside medical device and pharmaceutical companies to help ensure that they can demonstrate their product as safe and effective for use by the intended user, whether that is a nurse on a busy ward, a patient or a carer caring for someone who has a condition at home, or whether it is a highly skilled surgeon in their surgical theatre. The whole intended purpose is to ensure that human factors are integrated into the process from day one. This ensures a smoother development of a product, ensures smoother adoption of that product when it’s on the market, and also demonstrates that the end user really enjoys using their product. So there’s an element of user experience that’s built into it. We make the biggest impact early on, and we’re hoping to drive that impact from that early stage all the way through to that product being on the market and beyond.

We want to spread the word of human factors, really showcasing what human factors can do in order to ensure that you’re creating products within the med-tech health-tech industry that are going to be safe, they’re going to be effective, and they’re going to be usable and liked by individuals that will be coming into contact with those products. We’re also looking to deepen our collaborations with health innovators and researchers in order to bring these products onto the market with a more human-centred human factors mindset.

We are genuinely excited about engaging with the community here at Nexus. We are looking forward to engaging with healthtech innovators and start-ups that are in the early stages of their development process. More broadly speaking, if you’re developing a product that someone is ultimately going to be engaging with, we would love to have a conversation. The more we have those conversations, the more we share knowledge. The more we share thoughts, the better the products are that this region is going to be developing and that come out of this Nexus community.