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

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

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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.

 

 

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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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Creative Conversation: Fast Company Podcast

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

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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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Doctor Hustle Podcast – Episode 12

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

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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.

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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

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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

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.

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.

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JHD Podcast – Widening the Lens: Clinical Perspectives on Design Thinking in Public Health

August 20, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Design for Patient Safety, Design for Resiliency, Evidence-Based Design

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Title: “Widening the Lens: Clinical Perspectives on Design Thinking in Public Health”
Podcast: The Journal of Health Design
Date: August 20, 2020

The Health Design Podcast · Benjamin Bassin, MD, EDAC

The COVID-19 pandemic has created many stressors and challenges across all levels of low to highly resourced health systems. However, it has also shown the incredible number of opportunities for innovation, ingenuity and system re-engineering. This team believe it is time to support a paradigm change and advocate for healthcare’s next big investment: intentional and embedded partnerships between clinicians, designers, and architects with dedicated resources to ensure an effective collaborative environment to help solve healthcare’s greatest challenges.

Read the full editorial article HERE.

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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

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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.

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Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 Podcast

November 11, 2019 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Evidence-Based Design, Health Design & Ethics, The Physician-Architect Model

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Podcast: Healthcare Interior Design 2.0
Date: November 11, 2019

Dochitect is featured on the Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 Podcast!
Listen to @dochitect discuss the idea of what is the moral imperative of the architect to communicate research to clients and discuss potential benefits and harms of design. “Architects are sometimes torn between thinking about the state of healthcare outside of their individual project to a client,” Diana shares. “And I think we often have reservations about measuring design quality.” This and more on the changing face of the healthcare design from a “dochitect’s” perspective.

Click HERE to listen to the full podcast!
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