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Barbara Huelat, AAHID, FASID, EDAC, IIDA


Interior Design Principal
Huelat Davis Healing Design

Barbara J. Huelat is one of the field’s preeminent experts and prominent speakers on healthcare design and technology. Her life’s work has been to prove that design can impact human outcomes. Ms. Huelat has been engaged in creating healing environments with more than 300 healthcare organizations. She is a founding board member of The Center for Health Design, National President of American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers and author of two nationally acclaimed books: Healing Environments: What’s the Proof and Healing Environments for the Mind, Body and Spirit. Barbara regularly participates in healthcare design research with prominent researchers and organizations. She has introduced trends in healthcare design including: best practices, business case values, life cycle costing, appropriate materials/furnishings, bacterial mitigation practices, and patient-centered approaches using Evidence-Based Design. Barbara’s many successful projects, plus recognition by patients, families, and healthcare professionals verify her credentials as not only a woman of clarity and vision, but one who translates personal beliefs in healing principles into spaces which impact our bodies, minds and spirits.