Presentations

ULI – Science for Design

June 16, 2021 / Dochitect / Design for the Future of Health

Presentations

Event: Urban Land Institute (ULI) OnPoint
Title: Science for Design
Date: June 16, 2021
Panelists: Morgan Hutchinson, MD, Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Panel Chair), Catriona Brady, World Green Building Council, Diana Anderson, MD, Jacobs

What changes should be made to the built environment in response to the current public health crisis? How have our tendencies shifted in the last year and how has that impacted the ways we interact with indoor space? Expert speakers will offer fascinating insights on design for the built environment, including the impacts to our physical and mental health. Learn how neuro-architecture can inform building better and healthier indoor environments and hear strategies that office owners and operators can quickly implement to incrementally improve the office work environment.

Read more about the event HERE.

Panel Discussions

2021 European Healthcare Design Congress

June 14, 2021 / Dochitect / Design for Geriatrics, Design for the Future of Health

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Event: 2021 European Healthcare Design Congress
Dates: June 14-17, 2021

June 14, 2021
Session: Deconstructing the hospital to save itChair: Ganesh Suntharalingam, Intensive Care Society, UK
Panelists: William Hercules, WJH Health, USA; Benjamin Bassin; Cemal Sozener, University of Michigan Health System, USA; Diana Anderson, VA Boston Health System, USA

June 15, 2021
Session: Environments for modern ward rounds for multidisciplinary inpatient review
The Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Nursing, together with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and NHS Improvement, have developed updated guidance on ‘Modern ward rounds for multidisciplinary care in hospital wards’. Key elements include: space for multi-professional confidential discussion about and with patients; reducing noise levels to improve cognition; minimising interruptions; interactions with technology to improve information sharing and records; reducing hierarchy to improve communication; and decision-making. This workshop will explore opportunities and challenges in hospital wards to creating the best environment for high-quality multidisciplinary care.

Chair: John Dean, Royal College of Physicians, UK
Panelists: Andrew Rochford, NHS England & NHS Improvement, UK; Nicky Ashby, Royal College of Nursing, UK; Jennifer Flatman, Royal College of Physicians; Clinical pharmacist, UK; Diana Anderson, Jacobs, USA; Cemal B Sozener, University of Michigan Medical School, USA; Bill Hercules, WJH Health, USA Lynne Quinney, Patient representative, UK

June 16, 2021
Session: Nursing home design and Covid-19: balancing infection control, quality of life,
and resilience
Chair: Sylvia Wyatt, Health and care strategic advisor and consultant, UK
Panelists:Thomas Grey, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Diana C Anderson, VA Boston Health System, USA

June 17, 2021
Session: How will Covid-19 change healthcare design?
Chair: Paul Bell, Ryder Architecture, UK
Panelists: Matthew Holmes, Jacobs, Australia; Diana C Anderson, VA Boston Healthcare System, USA; Jacobs, USA

Read more about the event HERE.

Panel Discussions

Caring for the City: 21st Century Health & Wellbeing

June 14, 2021 / Dochitect / Design for the Future of Health

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Event: London Festival of Architecture
Title: Caring for the City: 21st Century Health & Wellbeing
Date: June 14, 2021
Panelists: Nina Wollman, Jacobs, Marky Davy, Founder, FutureCity, Matthew Holmes, Jacobs, Cashfya Cazi, Jacobs, Emily Violette, Schneider Electric, Diana Anderson, Jacobs

Imagine a future where, together as designers, thinkers, innovators, citizens, caregivers, and care-receivers, we create and deliver solutions for health and wellbeing by transforming our engagement with each other. To truly integrate and optimize the built environment where we receive care, the clinical environment that provides care, the digital environment that wraps around the care we receive and the community environment that promotes our wellbeing.

In parallel to our ‘Connecting Through Gaming’ initiative, Jacobs is exploring the topic of ‘Caring for the City’, in this webinar Jacobs Nina Wollman will reflect with a panel of experts and thought leaders on how in a post-COVID world, we can provide better ‘care’ through our approach to the built environment?

How can we bring ‘care’ to the multiple environments that support and impact our physical, mental health and wellbeing. We all want to be surrounded by spaces that enable us to thrive and succeed in all aspects of our lives.

Read more about the event HERE.

Panel Discussions

Symposium on Sustainability in Healthcare – Architectural Design as a Determinant of Heath

May 25, 2021 / Dochitect / Design for Resiliency, Design for the Future of Health, Evidence-Based Design

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Event: Symposium on Sustainability in Healthcare
Title: Architectural Design as a Determinant of Heath
Date: May 25, 2021

KEYNOTE LUNCH – 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Keynote Presentation: “Architectural Design as a Determinant of Health”

Presenter: Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch

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 20th century illustrates this infrequent intersection; the healthy building emphasizing contact with nature, developed to prevent the spread of contagions.

In the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic, we can revisit past models and consider new and sustainable innovations to emphasize infection prevention and control. A current focus on design equity, ensuring overall accessibility to healthcare-built space, is explored through universal design principles. It is imperative that we consider a convergence of the healthcare and design disciplines in order to promote novel solutions to augment-built environment resilience and subsequently support equitable, safe and efficient care delivery.

More information about the event is available HERE.

Keynote Presentations

Design and Research for Healthy Communities and Healthcare Facilities

May 17, 2021 / Dochitect / Design for Infection Control

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Event: Design and Research for Healthy Communities and Healthcare Facilities, University of Connecticut
Title: Architecture of Care During Pandemics
Date: May 17, 2021

Architecture of care during Pandemics
This session will examine the importance of the creation and utilization of space in hospital and clinic settings from different experts’ perspectives during moments of crises such as pandemics.

Diana C. Anderson, MD, M.Arch: Clinicians for Design, VA Boston Healthcare System
Title: Designing for Health Equity
A growing body of research demonstrates that architecture is an important determinant of health. The current COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequities in care delivery and health outcomes due to the built environment. Historical examples of the convergence of hospital architecture and medical practice exist. The design of the tuberculosis sanatorium during the early 20th 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 current global pandemic, we can revisit the sanatorium model to de-medicalize architecture, and emphasize infection prevention and control. COVID-19has highlighted the need for design thinking in healthcare to generate innovative solutions. This session addresses the built environment alongside other parameters of care, analogous to our medical interventions. How we might seek to harness this collaborative mindset and move towards shared knowledge is explored. It is imperative that we consider a convergence of the healthcare and design fields in order to promote innovative solutions to augment built environment resilience and subsequently support safe, efficient and equitable care.

More information about the event is available HERE.

Conference Presentations

AZURE Talks- Hospital(ity): New Directions in Healthcare Design

April 28, 2021 / Dochitect / Design for the Future of Health

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Event: AZURE talks, part of Architect@Work Canada Digital Summit
Date: April 28, 2021
Panelists: Siamak Hariri, founder Partner, Hariri Pontarini Architects; Diana Anderson, Principal, Jacobs; Chris McQuillan, Principal, B+H Architects

Big institutional hospitals tend to look and feel like big, institutional spaces. But there’s a lot more to healthcare design than meeting the terms of an RFP. How can designers imbue places of healing with a sense of warmth, tranquility and even wellness? And what stands in the way?

On April 28th at 12pm EST, AZURE will host a free online talk exploring the future of healthcare design. Titled Hospital(ity): New Directions in Healthcare Design, the conversation will explore the links between space and well-being delving into how architects can help nurture comfort and intimacy in healthcare settings.

Read more about the event HERE.

Panel Discussions

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

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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

LiftOff 2020: Health Equity by Design

December 15, 2020 / Dochitect / Health Design & Ethics

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Event: Liftoff PGH 2020: A virtual healthcare innovation summit, Pittsburgh, PA
Title: Health Equity & Design / Panel discussion
Date: December 15, 2020

IKM Presents: Health Equity by Design
John Keelan, Dr. Diana Anderson, Juliet Rogers, Dr. Bon Ku

This panel explores the power of design to improve disparities in health. Panelists will upend current health care models, formulating systems that improve outcomes for all patients.

Conference Presentations

The Bioethics of Built Space: On the Shared Responsibilities of Bioethics and Architecture

October 16, 2020 / Dochitect / Health Design & Ethics

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Event: American Society for Bioethics + Humanities (ASBH) – Annual Meeting
Presentation type: Panel presentation & discussion
Presenters: Stowe Lock Teti, MA, HEC-C, Diana Anderson, MD, MArch, William J. Hercules, MArch, FAIA, FACHA, FACHE
Date: October 16, 2020

Session Overview

Over the past fifty or so years, our understanding of the role the environment plays in shaping us and our interactions has expanded immensely. Studies of social determinants of health have illuminated profound effects social factors and environment can have on medical outcomes and well-being. Studies of behavior have demonstrated the powerful effect environmental factors can have on decision-making. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, so little attention has been paid to the bioethics of the built environment in healthcare. We all know intuitively that the spaces we spend time in affect us, and while some intrepid healthcare architects have been exploring the power of environmental factors on behavior for decades, virtually none of this terrain has been contemplated in bioethics.

The physical environment in healthcare architecture has been associated with numerous quality and outcomes issues. As we will show, design choices can result in substantive ethical issues for not just the marginalized and vulnerable, but all of us, leading some to call for a shared decision-making in healthcare architecture that mirrors the movement in clinical medicine. In this panel discussion, we will begin by outlining a series of ethical issues in healthcare design, including the use of illusion, living laboratories, and the prevention or imposition of harm through design. We then examine the state of research practices in healthcare architecture: what has been accomplished, what hasn’t, and the challenges that lie ahead. We conclude by inviting the audience to discuss the role of bioethics in healthcare architecture.

Learning Objectives – At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:

Discuss the role the built environment plays in wellbeing and medical outcomes and provide several examples.
Be familiar with some of the most pressing ethical issues arising out of design decisions in healthcare architecture and be able to describe both evidence-based considerations and theoretical concerns.
Articulate the state of research in healthcare architecture, discuss the challenges of implementing modern research practices in ongoing and future work, and the benefits of solving the issues involved.

Conference Presentations

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