Presentations

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

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

Presentations

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.

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

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

LiftOff 2020: Health Equity by Design

December 15, 2020 / Dochitect / Health Design & Ethics

Presentations

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

Presentations

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

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:
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
RadioPublic
Google Play
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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

A New Peace of Mind – a podcast episode on the changing meaning of security in 2020, including our health

September 22, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Design for Patient Safety, Design for Resiliency

Presentations

Title: A New Peace of Mind
Podcast: Pacific Content
Date: September 22, 2020

Episode Summary

2020 has been a year of instability and upheaval, so it’s no surprise many of us have been especially focused on our security. And that comes in many forms – securing our health, our homes, our finances, and even our digital lives. We used to talk about ‘safety in numbers’ – but during the pandemic as we’ve been in quarantine and isolation, we’ve had to rethink what security looks and feels like today. In this episode, hosts Shannon Murphy and Erin Shea explore how this need for fortification has been accelerated by work-from-home orders and lockdowns, and how this year has changed our idea of security for good.

Episode Notes

In this episode, hosts Shannon Murphy and Erin Shea explore how this need for fortification has been accelerated by work-from-home orders and lockdowns, and how this year has changed our idea of security for good.

Featuring Dominic Lester, Jefferies’ European Head of Investment Banking, and Ramin Safai, Jefferies’ Global Head of Information Security.

Also featuring:

Christian Cerda is the CEO of Simplisafe.
Thomas Smyth is the founder and CEO of Trim.
Diana Anderson is a “dochitect,” a MD and M.Arch who specializes in the design of healthcare spaces.

Listen to the full podcast HERE.

Podcasts

Physician Engagement and Perspective in the Lean Facility Design Process

September 16, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Design for Resiliency

Presentations

Event: 6^th European Healthcare Design 2020 Congress, Awards & Exhibition
Presentation type: Poster presentation, Lean Design
Presenters: Ben Bassin, MD, Cemal Sozener, MD, MEng, Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch, Juliet Rogers, PhD, MPH
Date: September 16, 2020

Clinician involvement is essential to the success of any healthcare design project centered around patient care delivery. Practicing physicians can contribute valuable clinical knowledge to healthcare design projects to ensure the final product meets desired patient care goals.

There are many challenges in obtaining optimal physician engagement in longitudinal design projects, including time constraints, differing priorities, competing interests, insufficient knowledge of design and development process and understanding the value of their contribution.

Because many challenges exist to optimizing physician participation in the process, balancing the perspectives of both the practicing clinician and the healthcare administrator and healthcare consultants are paramount in creating successful healing environments.

Conference Presentations

AdvantAge Ontario: Designing the Long-Term Care Home for COVID and Beyond

August 31, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Geriatrics, Design for Infection Control, Design for Resiliency

Webinar

Webinar Title: Designing the Long-Term Care Home for COVID and Beyond
Webinar Date: August 31, 2020
Organization: AdvantAge Ontario

Monday, August 31, 2020 | 2:00pm – 4:00pm

AdvantAge Ontario is the association of not-for-profit long term care, housing, and services for seniors: “We’ve seen through the pandemic how a long-term care home’s design can acutely influence its ability to prevent and respond to infection outbreaks. But design also affects many other important elements of LTC living. Whether you’re building new, redeveloping, or thinking about adaptations to your existing building, this webinar will equip you with essential knowledge and fresh ideas to consider as you plan. We’ll have a detailed discussion of current design standards and recent changes, what they could mean for your home, and the less understood role of mechanical engineering. Learn about the influence of design on infection control and alternative design approaches that also address other aspects of resident well-being, such as smaller clustered settings. Examples of the impact of design during the pandemic’s spring surge will be reviewed and the implications of provincial funding announcements will be discussed. Bring all your questions for the final part of this timely session.”

Click HERE to access the webinar recording.

Webinars

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