Before joining the faculty in Madison, Wisconsin he was a National Institutes of Health Roadmap Scholar at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine where he also served as the Director of Human Factors and Patient Safety Research within the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery. Dr. Wiegmann has also been an associate professor of Human Factors at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and formerly served as an aviation psychologist and accident investigator for both the National Transportation Safety Board and the United States Navy. Dr. Wiegmann received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 1992 from Texas Christian University. He earned a post-doctoral master’s degree in biomedical science from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in 2007.