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Rebecca Ames & Homa Pesarakli Announced
as 2024 Joseph G. Sprague New Investigator
Award Recipients
Concord, CA – Rebecca Ames, M.S. and Homa Pesarakli, MArch, EDAC have been selected as the 2024 Joseph G. Sprague New Investigator Award Recipients. Both PhD students, Rebecca Ames attends Cornell University and Homa Pesarakli attends Texas A&M University.
Ames’ study: “Healing by Design: Developing a Tool for Evaluating Intensive Mental and Behavioral Health Facilities for Adolescents” will use evidence-informed architectural theory to guide the design of intensive mental and behavioral health facilities for youth to develop and pilot test a questionnaire for evaluating these environments.
Pesarakli’s study “Evaluate the Impact of Layout Design on Interruption Events During the Medication Process in the ICU” aims to investigate the effect of Intensive Care Unit layout features on the number and duration of interruptions during the medication process in the ICU.
As the 2024 award recipients, both Rebecca and Homa will receive $15,000 in funding to support their research.
Yolanda Keys, Research Associate, with The Center who led the New Investigator Award (NIA) jury panel, stated, “The Center for Health Design extends sincere congratulations to the 2024 NIA winners! We are grateful to Joseph Sprague for sponsoring the award and look forward to supporting these up-and-coming researchers.”
The Center and the jurors would also like to recognize the following candidates for making it to the top five finalists:
- Dr. Erin McCabe, MScPT, PhD, Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Health System Impact Fellow, Post Doctoral Fellow, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Canada: Informing Evidence-Based Design for Pediatric Mental Health Services: Children and Young People’s Experiences of the Environment of a Community Mental Health Centre
- Mengni Zhang, RA, PhD, EDAC, Assistant Professor, Department of Design Studies, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Understanding Patient Room Spatial Ergonomics with a Continuous Posture Assessment Tool for Improving Nurse Wellbeing and Workplace Safety
- Seokyung Park, MS, PhD student, Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University: Enhancing Resident Health in Long-term Care Communities: Bridging Indoor and Outdoor Spaces
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