The Workshop
The landscape of healthcare (and healthcare design) is ever-evolving, and poses opportunities and challenges for care providers, patients and communities, and designers of healthcare spaces. This changing landscape reaches far beyond typical healthcare spaces and into a myriad of care settings. Now, more than ever, it is imperative that these settings respond to complexities of care, are flexible to respond to fluid care needs, and offer equity to patients.
To meet the needs of future care delivery, facility and care professionals have to advance their understanding of the key drivers that impact the care environment and learn how to incorporate the best and latest design solutions throughout all healthcare settings.
This one-day virtual workshop provides the latest thinking in what is driving the future of healthcare, and offers state-of-the-art best practices through thought leader presentations, case studies, and panel discussions. Attendees will have opportunities to pose questions to workshop faculty and interact with fellow attendees in fun and innovative ways.
Agenda
Welcome Opening Remarks & Introductions
D. Kirk Hamilton, PhD, EDAC, FCCM, Emeritus FAIA & FACHA, Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University, Founding Co-Editor, Health Environments Research & Design (HERD)
Opening Keynote
Andrew M. Ibrahim, MD, MSc, Co-Director, Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy, University of Michigan, Senior Principal and Chief Medical Officer, HOK
Resiliency
Lisa Sundahl Platt, Ph.D., M.S., CSSBB, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C, Assistant Professor Interior Design | FIBER Research Faculty, Director, Integrative Prevention through Design Lab
Climate Change
Walt Vernon, MBA, JD, LLM, Mazzetti and Sextant Foundation
Care Delivery and Community Health
Taft Cleveland, Assoc. AIA, Assoc. APA, LEED GA, NOMA, Associate, Healthcare Planner, SmithGroup
Healthcare Workforce
Yolanda Keys, PhD, DHA, RN, NEA-BC, EDAC, Research Associate, The Center for Health Design
Panel Discussion: State of the Practice in Health Care and Design
Experts
D. Kirk Hamilton is the former Beale Endowed Professor of Health Facility Design at Texas A&M University, following 30 years as a hospital architect. He is now a Professor Emeritus and a Fellow Emeritus of the American College of Healthcare Architects and American Institute of Architects, and Fellow, American College of Critical Care Medicine.
His Bachelor of Architecture is from the University of Texas at Austin (1970); his Master of Science in Organization Development is from Pepperdine University (2003), and his PhD is in Nursing & Healthcare Innovation from Arizona State University (2017). He is a founding co-editor of the Health Environments Research & Design (HERD) Journal.
Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc is the Maud T. Lane Research Professor of Surgery, Architecture & Urban Planning and Vice Chair for Health Services Research in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan. He also serves Chief Medical Officer and Senior Principal at the global design and architecture firm, HOK. He completed his undergraduate and medical degrees both with Honors at Case Western Reserve University with a year of coursework at University College London and The Bartlett School of Architecture. His research at the interface of healthcare delivery, surgery and architecture is supported by >$10million of extramural funding including R01s from AHRQ and the NIH. In 2023, he was appointed to the Board of Directors at Academy Health and the Board of the Center for Health Design. More about his work can be found here: www.SurgeryRedesign.com.
Lisa Sundahl Platt's firm is a Human Experience research and Innovation Management solution provider that works with US and International health, wellness, and continuing care organizations seeking to implement transformational change. Her expertise is in working with cross-functional quality and performance improvement teams to facilitate process optimization and to increase product and service delivery efficiency, safety, and outcome reliability. Lisa has served as a research primary investigator and authored several publications related to the impact of systems on human health and well-being.
She holds a Masters of Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and is nearing completion of her Doctorate in Systems Science with a Health Systems Engineering focus at SUNY Binghamton. Her research concentration is on Human Factors and Population Health systems resilience. She is an ASQ Certified Six-Sigma Black Belt expert in Lean and Statistical Process Control of healthcare service and product delivery processes. Her professional background includes over twenty-five years of tenure in the field of organizational strategy, human development, and environmental planning and sustainability management. She currently holds professional licenses with the States of Tennessee and Florida Boards for Architecture, Engineering and Design regulation, Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification with The Center for Health Design, and is a US Green Building Council LEED Accredited Professional for Building Design and Construction.
Walt is the CEO for Mazzetti. He has 30 years of experience in the research, planning, and design of healthcare facilities. Walt serves on the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Hospital Engineers, the board of Healthcare International, and the Facility Guidelines Institute. He was also the principal author for WHO’s Health in the Green Economy. He has worked on healthcare projects around the world, including pro-bono projects in Haiti, Burundi, Sierra Leone, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, the Philippines, and South Africa.
Currently, Walt serves on the Electrical Systems Technical Committee for National Fire Protection Agency 99 and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) 188, is the Vice Chair for ASHRAE 189.3, and is an active member of The Center for Health Design’s Research Coalition and Built Environment Network.
Taft Cleveland is a highly skilled and creative healthcare design professional with 20 years experience in healthcare functional and space programming, strategic facilities planning, clinical transitioning services for new facilities, urban design and master planning. Taft is actively involved in topics of social justice, health equity and inclusion. He serves as one of fifteen members of SmithGroup’s global J.E.D.I. committee, working towards creating a more equitable work culture for the firm.
In 2022, Taft was recognized as Healthcare Design Magazine’s HCD 10: Industry MVP Award along with Espy Harper and Dr. Tammy Thompson for his exploration grant entitled the Community Achievement Racial Equity (C.A.R.E.) Framework. The framework provides actionable and measurable steps health systems may employ to serve leaders in addressing health equity. Through the C.A.R.E. Framework, industry members can now act on health equity design and break the cycle of health disparities by influencing access to education, healthy foods, and safe communities.
Yolanda Keys is a registered nurse and brings over 25 years of nursing experience that has included roles as a clinician, leader and academician. With doctorates in healthcare administration and nursing, her research focuses on nurse leaders and healthy work environments – especially the built environment. She is an active member of the Nursing Institute for Health Design (NIHD), serving as president in 2017 and acting as an NIHD liaison for The Center’s Knowledge Repository for many years. She brings a clinical perspective to the research team, as well as a deep understanding of the important contribution nurses can have during planning and design.