Publication: ACP Hospitalist
Title: Clinicians dive into hospital design
Date: April 12, 2018
Dochitect was interviewed by ACP Hospitalist on the topic of clinicians and design!
Excerpt: Researchers from health care and design backgrounds have been increasingly focusing on how the layout and allocation of space in hospitals can promote the well-being of both patients and clinicians.
Read the article here.
Publication: The Globe and Mail
Title: Is there ever a ‘good death’?
Date: Online November 29, 2017; In print November 30, 2017
Publication: The New York Times
Title: Design Thinking for Doctors and Nurses
Date: August 3, 2017
Dochitect was interviewed by The New York Times regarding the notion of design thinking in healthcare and the creation of Clinicians for Design– an international network of healthcare providers, offering online discussions as well as workshops and digital resources, with a focus on improving healthcare delivery and the hospital’s physical layout.
Read the article here.
To learn more about Clinicians for Design, click here to visit the website.
Event: Clinicians for Design workshop, held at the European Healthcare Design Congress
Location: Royal College of Physicians, London UK
Date: June 13 2017
Clinicians for Design is an international network of leaders with a vision to inspire and accelerate the design of environments and systems, enriching the healthcare interface. Its mission is to engage clinical professionals within research, education and practice. We seek to enhance health outcomes through innovations in the design of healthcare spaces, technologies, care delivery systems and policies.
Increasingly, clinicians are asking not only for the architect’s perspective, but to develop a skill-set and knowledge-base that will allow them to help shape the future of hospitals, medicine, and healthcare.
Clinicians for Design offers several unique platforms to apply clinical insights and experience to the design of settings and systems that serve medical practice. Clinicians for Design and the Human Experience Lab at Perkins+Will are hosting an invitation-only meeting and presentations during the European Healthcare Design Congress, on June 11-14th, 2017 at the Royal College of Physicians in London, UK.
In addition, Clinicians for Design is planning a series of seminars and will be developing printed and digital resources to provide an international platform for sharing perspectives and goals. We will be hosting colloquia, educational sessions, and producing both print and online publications to inspire the emergence of new models of practice. This evolving knowledge-base and skill-set will help to shape the future of hospitals, medicine, and healthcare for the well-being of patients and clinicians themselves.
By connecting our global network, healthcare and research professionals may begin to facilitate the next tipping point in medicine, and challenge the stated norms for health & care design. Ultimately, by bringing the design team and the health care team together, the Clinicians for Design group will provide a nexus of clinically inspired publications, best-practices and policy documents to serve each other and our patients.
Clinicians for Design was co-founded by Drs. Anderson and Edelstein.
As a board-certified healthcare architect and Internal Medicine physician, Diana Anderson, MD, a “dochitect”, combines educational and professional experience in medicine and architecture. Eve Edelstein, PhD, F-AAA, a “neuro-architect”, applies her research and clinical work from the University College London, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, and University California Berkeley, among others, in her current work as director of the Human Experience Lab at Perkins+Will.
Click the links below to view the videos from dochitect’s introduction to the CfD morning workshop presentation and introduction to the afternoon didactic session of universal design for an aging population:
Organization: SALUS – European Healthcare Design
Event: Healthcare Design Awards
Location: Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
Date: June 13, 2017
Dochitect was invited as one of the Lead Judges for the 2017 European Healthcare Design Awards.
Healthcare Design (Over 25,000 sqm)
Judges: Diana Anderson, Dochitect, Canada/Intl; Craig Dixon, KD Health, UK; Kate Copeland, Queensland Department of Health, Australia
Publication: UofTMed Magazine
Title: Can We Talk About Physician Mental Health?
Date: May 30, 2017
Dochitect shares design ideas on the notion of the Reset Room for physician health and well-being in this issue of UofTMed Magazine which focuses on the theme of caregiver mental health.
What would your reset room look like? How would you tailor a space that actively promotes the physician’s well-being? Here are some ideas from architects and health care professionals who are starting to consider this concept. Share your ideas on Twitter by tagging @uoftmedicine
Publication: UofT MedAlumni e-newsletter
Date: January 27, 2017
Dochitect was interviewed by the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine Alumni e-newsletter in response to the question- “what needs to change in medicine today?”
Excerpt:
I believe we need to put more focus on the importance of architectural design in health care — and on researching the elements and impact of our built environment.Here are just several examples of the pressing questions facing the field:
Publication: Irish Independent (Independent.ie)
Date: November 17, 2016
Author: Paul McNeive
Dochitect is mentioned in the Irish Independent newspaper!
Excerpt: Carole Pollard, President of The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) says that “architects need to shout louder about their relevance to the built environment”, noting that the quality of our built environment can greatly improve people’s lives. She referenced an interesting study by Diana Anderson, a doctor and architect who has established that hospital patients in rooms with windows have better outcomes than those without. This is due to the more natural circadian rhythms but also because staff check on patients with windows more frequently, as they prefer being in those rooms.
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Publication: Doctors Who Create
Date: July 28 2016; November 15, 2016
Excerpt: What does the term “dochitect” mean for you?
Dr. Anderson: The dochitect serves to bridge the gap between architecture and medicine. There is a quote from the Dutch architect, Herman Hertzberger that states, “The architect is like the physician…he must see to it that what he does makes everyone feel better.” The dochitect is able to see from a different perspective and able to bring both knowledge sets together and promote innovation.
Publication: MedicalExpo e-magazine
Date: July 6, 2016
Author: Howard Wolinsky
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Excerpt: Dr. Diana Anderson, an architect and physician who practices hospital architecture at Stantec Architecture in New York City, said research documents that lighting in medical settings positively affects the physical and emotional well-being of both patients and medical staff.
“Views and images, either real or virtual, should be considered just as important for the clinical staff to access as they are for patients,” she said. “Some rooms will always be windowless in a design. It is inevitable. So how can we change the experience of being in one of them?”
In this article, Dochitect comments on virtual windows for patients, visitors and healthcare staff.
