The Physician-Architect Model

In Network’s Designing for Health Podcast: Interview with Diana Anderson, MD [Podcast]

May 21, 2024 / Dochitect / The Physician-Architect Model

Presentations

Title: Designing for Health: Interview with Diana Anderson, MD [Podcast]
Podcast: In Network’s Designing for Health podcast
Date: May 21, 2024

Architecture in healthcare plays a pivotal role in shaping patient experiences and outcomes, extending far beyond mere aesthetics. Thoughtfully designed healthcare facilities optimize patient flow, enhance accessibility, and foster healing environments conducive to recovery. This isn’t based on mere conjecture, either; a plethora of peer-reviewed research has shown the significant effect evidence-based design can and does have on patients and their well-being. With this research readily available, industry leaders should consider leaning on health architects and other experts to prevent undue harm and promote health and wellness.

On today’s episode of In Network’s Designing for Health podcast feature, Nordic Chief Medical Officer Craig Joseph, MD, talks with triple board-certified physician and architect Diana Anderson, MD.

They discuss her background in design and architecture, her transition into the healthcare industry, and where her expertise in both has intersected. They also discuss the importance of user feedback in healthcare design, the challenges of creating staff spaces that promote wellness, and the need for evidence-based design at every level.

Listen HERE

In Network’s Designing for Health podcast feature is available on all major podcasting platforms, including: Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google, iHeart, Pandora, Spotify, and more. Search for ‘In Network’ and subscribe for updates on future episodes. Like what you hear? Make sure to leave a 5-star rating and write a review to help others find the podcast.

Podcasts

Architecture Off-Centre Podcast: On Architecture + Medicine / Diana Anderson

February 8, 2024 / Dochitect / The Physician-Architect Model

Presentations

Title: On Architecture + Medicine / Diana Anderson
Podcast: Architecture Off-Centre Podcast
Date: February 8, 2024

Architecture Off-Centre highlights unconventional design practices and research projects, which reflect various emerging discourses within the design discipline and beyond. Hosted by architect Vaissnavi Shukl, the podcast features engaging conversations with exceptionally creative individuals, who, in their practice, have extrapolated the traditional fields of architecture, planning, landscape and urban design to unexplored frontiers.

For our final episode for this season, we speak to doctor and architect Diana Anderson, who has skillfully carved a unique career path for herself as a “dochitect” – by pioneering a collaborative, evidence-based model for approaching healthcare from the medicine and architecture fields simultaneously. Dr. Diana Anderson is a triple boarded professional – healthcare architect, internist, and a geriatrician. She is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University, and a recipient of an Alzheimer’s Association Clinician Scientist Fellowship. She is also a healthcare principal at Jacobs, contributing her thought leadership at the intersection of design and health.

Listen here:

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Podcasts

Raw Talk Podcast – Architecture x Health: The Blueprints Behind Healthcare Spaces

March 1, 2023 / Dochitect / The Physician-Architect Model

Presentations

Title: Architecture x Health: The Blueprints Behind Healthcare Spaces
Podcast: Raw Talk Podcast
Date: March 1, 2023

he spaces we live, work, play in shape our health and our psyche – and healthcare spaces are no different. In this episode, we take a deep, multifaceted look at the field of healthcare architecture. Our guests give us valuable insights into how hospitals are designed and how elements of clinical care, sound design, and innovative research combine to create spaces we all experience sickness and health in. We hear from “dochitect” Dr. Diana Anderson (board-certified healthcare architect and internist at VA Boston Health System), Dr. Michaela Cada (hematologist-oncologist and Chief Clinical Planning Officer of Project Horizon), and Dr. John Straube (registered professional engineer and Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo).

Raw Talk Podcast is a graduate student-run podcast at the University of Toronto about medical science, and the people who make it happen. Listen HERE.

Podcasts

FXCollaborative Architecture 5 10 20 Podcast Episode 2 with Diana Anderson the “dochitect”

February 15, 2022 / Dochitect / The Physician-Architect Model

Presentations

Title: Architecture 5 10 20 Episode 2
Podcast: FXCollaborative Architecture 5 10 20
Date: February 15, 2022

Introducing architecture 5 10 20 – a new podcast hosted by FXCollaborative’s Guy Geier. Listen to Architecture 5 10 20 Episode 2 with Diana Anderson, MD, ACHA, the “dochitect,” and Guy Geier:

“Our core thesis is that the built environment is a medical intervention. And it should be subject to the same ethical scrutiny as we do in pharmaceutical trials and clinical care. You know, we have a duty to study what we’re designing and make sure that we’re not causing harm through the spaces that we are building.”

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Podcasts

Tulane School of Medicine: Architectural Design as a Determinant of Health

January 14, 2021 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Evidence-Based Design, The Physician-Architect Model

Presentations

Event: Tulane School of Medicine- Medical Student Government + GAPSA (Graduate Professional Student Association) lecture series
Title: Architectural Design as a Determinant of Health
Date: January 14, 2021

Lecture Overview
Our understanding of the role the environment plays in shaping health has expanded immensely over the last few decades. A growing body of empirical data and evidence-based design research demonstrates that architecture impacts care delivery as well as health outcomes. This talk explores built space as an important determinant of health and questions whether the built environment itself should be considered alongside other parameters of care, analogous to our medical interventions.

Historical examples of the convergence of hospital architecture and medical practice exist. The design of the tuberculosis sanatorium during the early 20^th century illustrates this infrequent intersection; the healthy building emphasizing contact with nature, developed to prevent the spread of contagions by isolating patients and preparing them for a return to normal life. In the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic, we can revisit the sanatorium model to de-medicalize architecture, and emphasize infection prevention and control. It is imperative that we consider a convergence of the healthcare and design disciplines in order to promote innovative solutions to augment built environment resilience and subsequently support equitable, safe and efficient care delivery.

Lectures

AWMA Thinking Beyond the White Coat: Medical Hybrid Careers

January 9, 2021 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, The Physician-Architect Model

Presentations

Event: American Women’s Medical Association (AMWA) NY/NJ Virtual Conference
Title: Interview with a Dochitect: Medical Hybrid Careers
Date: January 9, 2021

The AWMA is a multitiered organization dedicated to the advancement of women in medicine through advocacy, education, and mentorship in order to ensure excellence in healthcare. Dochitect was invited to speak about medical hybrid careers during the “Thinking Beyond the White Coat” Session.

Conference Presentations

Creative Conversation: Fast Company Podcast

October 8, 2020 / Dochitect / The Physician-Architect Model

Presentations

Title: Dr. Diana Anderson and Healthcare Architecture
Podcast: Creative Conversation: Fast Company
Date: October 8, 2020

As an editor and writer for Fast Company magazine, KC Ifeanyi covers some of the most creative minds in film, television, business and beyond. In this podcast, he unpacks the most frustrating parts of the creative process by talking to psychologists, scholars, and experts who are on the forefront of understanding creativity.

In this episode KC speaks with Dr. Diana Anderson as she discusses being a board-certified healthcare architect and the impact of innovative hospital design on treatment.

Listen to the episode here:
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Podcasts

Doctor Hustle Podcast – Episode 12

October 1, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Resiliency, The Physician-Architect Model

Presentations

Title: Doctor Hustle Podcast – Episode 12
Podcast: Doctor Hustle
Date: September 22, 2020

Doctor Hustle Podcast
Episode 12 – Dr. Diana Anderson

Today’s guest is an accomplished, multi-talented clinician that made me think a lot about the design of the buildings of where I work after our conversation.

Dr. Diana Anderson is a healthcare architect and a board-certified internist. As a “dochitect”, Dr. Anderson combines educational and professional experience in both medicine and architecture. She has worked on hospital design projects globally and is widely published in both architectural and medical journals, books, and the popular press. She is a frequent speaker about the impacts of healthcare design on patient outcomes and staff satisfaction. And as the co-founder of the Clinicians for Design group, she seeks to inspire clinicians to improve the design of their environments and systems.

Listen to her ideas and I am sure you’ll look at the place you work, the clinic or hospital, a little bit differently. I know I do.

Listen to Episode 12 HERE.

Podcasts

Fix Room 16! Designing Healthcare Facilities to be More Resilient & Equitable

May 28, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Design for Infection Control, Design for Resiliency, Health Design & Ethics, The Physician-Architect Model

Presentations

Title: Fix Room 16! Designing Healthcare Facilities to be More Resilient & Equitable
Podcast: Design is Everywhere, Design Museum
Date: May 28, 2020

This is one of the main reasons we’re quarantined, not just to keep ourselves safe from the virus but also to “flatten the curve,” and help our hospitals keep up with a growing number of cases. On this episode we talk about how hospitals are designing solutions for surge capacity and what lessons there are for the future of hospital architecture. Those lessons could be very important as we may see new spikes in COVID-19 and as we must adapt facilities to be equitable for all patients, healthcare workers, and staff. We’re joined by Dr. Diana Anderson, a doctor architect, or Dochitect, currently a geriatric medicine fellow at the University of California, San Francisco; and Dr. Esther Choo, she’s an emergency medicine physician and health services researcher based in Portland, Oregon at Oregon Health & Science University, and she’s the chief medical advisor for a startup called Jupe, which is creating pop-up medical facilities. Plus our weekly dose of good design.

Dochitect co-hosts the Design is Everywhere podcast! Listen HERE.

Podcasts

Paging the Engineers and Architects, STAT: The emergence of the hybrid clinician

May 16, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Evidence-Based Design, The Physician-Architect Model

Webinar

Webinar Title:’Paging the Engineers and Architects, STAT: The emergence of the hybrid clinician
Webinar Date: May 16, 2020
Organization: Clinician Engineer Hub Webinar Series

Overview:
The Clinician Engineer Hub is an international non-profit organisation that aims to bring together the clinical and biomedical engineering field and provide talented medical students and clinicians exposure to the world of clinical medicine, the challenges doctors face in diagnosing and treating patients and how to potentially solve these issues with cutting edge engineering solutions.

For the Clinician Engineer Hub Webinar Series, Dochitect discusses the emergence of the hybrid clinician and the importance of this model in addressing healthcare challenges and innovation.

The webinar recording is accessible HERE!

Webinars

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