Organisation & People

• Prof Alan Dilani, PhD Sweden, Founder and Director General
• Marc Sansom, MBA UK, Corporate Development and Communications Director
• Dr John Zeisel, PhD USA, Chair of Scientific Committee
• Prof Yeunsook Lee, PhD Korea. International Adviser
• Prof Jacqueline Vischer, PhD, Canada. International Adviser
• Lord Nigel Crisp, UK, House of Lords
• Charlie Olofsson, Sweden, IT Director and technical advisor

Prof Alan Dilani PhD, General Director, Sweden

Professor Alan Dilani is a founder and General Director of the International Academy for Design and Health (IADH). www.designandhealth.com He is co-founder of the Journal “World Health Design” http://www.worldhealthdesign.com/ . He is founder and director of international master program on Design and Health with University of Portsmouth in UK. Dr Dilani has been engaged worldwide in several universities in the field of Design and Health developing "Psychosocially Supportive Design Program", both in Medical and Design institutions. He holds a Ph.D. in Health Facility Design from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and a Masters of Architecture in Environmental Design from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. His research at Karolinska Institute, Medical University, developed a multidisciplinary research approach, leads to the new definition of design that not only fosters functional efficiency, but also improves health processes. He has designed all kind of healthcare facilities and has been used as advisor for several ministry of health around the world. He lectures worldwide and is the author of numerous articles and books in the field of Design and Health. Dr. Dilani received the AIA- American Institute of Architects award for his promotion of high quality design research in 2010. 

Marc Sansom MBA, Corporate Development / Communications Director, UK
Marc Sansom is corporate development and communications director at the International Academy for Design and Health. Prior to joining the Academy, Marc worked for 12 years as an international business editor and journalist, primarily in the healthcare sector and has been responsible for the launch and strategic development of products and services across a range of media platforms, including magazines, web sites, conferences and awards. In particular, Marc has considerable knowledge of issues relating to the design, planning and procurement healthcare facilities, technology and services. In 2004, Marc also received an Executive MBA from the University of Hull, for which his thesis focused on the strategic development of procurement in the NHS. He also has a BA Hons Degree in Modern History, Economic History and Politics from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Dr John Zeisel, Chair of Scientific Committee, USA

Dr Zeisel is president of Hearthstone Alzheimer Care, a company with its headquarters in Lexington, Massachusetts that manages assisted living treatment residences for people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. In 1998, Dr Zeisel was honoured with the Environment Design Research Association's (EDRA) Career Award for his contributions to design research. In the same year, he received the EDRA/Places research award for examining the effects of the physical environment on health and well-being of people with Alzheimer's disease Dr Zeisel received his Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University and a Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University, School of Design. He is the author of ‘Inquiry by Design’, a standard reference in many architecture, design and social science courses.

Dr Yeunsook Lee, International Adviser, Korea

Dr Yeunsook Lee is professor and director of the Institute of Millennium Environmental Design and Research of Yonsei University, Korea. She was a member of the Presidential Commission for the New Millennium of ROK and is an advocate for high quality environments. As chair of the Preparatory Committee for the World Congress on Environmental Design for the New Millennium, Seoul in 2000 with 6,000 participants from 46 countries, she provided global opportunities for Eastern and Western wisdom to be shared and integrated to help create a socially, culturally and economically, more sustainable future for the world. She has received a Ph.D. in Housing and Interior Design from Oklahoma State University and been a recipient of the Fullbright Senior Reseacher Award. She is the author of ‘Interior Environment and Human Behavior’ and numerous books on design for the elderly and children of Korea.

Prof Jacqueline C Vischer, International Adviser, Canada
Dr Jacqueline Vischer is a director at the Department of Interior Design, University of Montreal. The department's program focuses on the use of social research and user needs analysis in creating livable places. Dr Vischer is a psychologist and received her Ph.D. in Architecture, from the University of California, Berkeley. She is also president of Building-in-Use, an environmental design consulting group with offices in Montreal and Boston. Buildings-in-Use facilitates staff and organisational change while helping to create offices of the future for major public and private clients. She has published on this topic in numerous journals including the Harvard Business Review and MIT's Sloane Management Review. Vischer’s books include ‘Environmental Quality in Offices’ and ‘Workspace Strategies: Environment as a Toll for Work’.

Lord Nigel Crisp, House of Lords, UK

Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords and works mainly on international development and global health. During 2007 and 2008 he co-chaired a Global Health Workforce Alliance Task Force on Scaling up the training and education of health workers with Commissioner Bience Gawanas, the African Union Commissioner for Social Affairs. It published its report, Scaling up, Saving Lives, in May 2008. He is a member of international groups and task forces dealing with the quality of healthcare, professional education, the management of migration amongst health workers and the financing of health systems. From 2000 to 2006 he was Chief Executive of the NHS and Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health.

Charlie Olofsson, IT Director / technical advisor, Sweden

Charlie Olofsson is a Computer engineer and senior project manager. He retired from the Royal Swedish Navy as a Lieutenant Commander in 2005. During his service in the Navy and Airforce he worked with ships and helicopter Combat Management Systems and also represented Sweden in NATO headquarters in Brussels. He participated in several large international defense projects and procurements. He was from 2005 to 2011 working as an IT-consultant/Project Manager, specialising in IT-security.

He is now working as the IT-Manager for the Swedish National Board of Trade

The International Advisory Board is composed of the following:

• Phil Nedin, Healthcare Business Leader, ARUP, UK
• Dr Gunnar Öhlén, MD. PhD Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
• Mike Nightingale, Nightingale Associates, UK
• Prof Chang-Ho Moon, Kunsan National University Korea
• Tye Farrow, Senior Principal, Tye Farrow, Canada
• Prof Ian Forbes, Adjunct Professor, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Derek Parker, Senior Principal, Anshen+Allen, USA
• John Wells-Thorpe, Architectural Historian, Writer & Consultant, U.K.
• Diana Anderson, BSc (Arch), M.Arch., MD, WHR Architects, USA
• Michael Moxam, Stantec Architects, Toronto, Canada
• Alice Liang, Montgomery Sisam Architects, Toronto, Canada
• Mikael Paatela, Managing Director, Sweco Paatela Architects Oy, Finland
• Nadia Tobia, Principal, Perkins Eastman International, Toronto, Canada
• Andrew Jardine, owner, DigitImaging, UK
  

Phil Nedin, Healthcare Business Leader, ARUP, UK

Phil Nedin is a chartered mechanical engineer and a director of Arup. Phil’s primary role is as global leader of the Arup Healthcare business. The Arup Healthcare network is global with skills based in USA, Asia, Australia and continental Europe and has a project portfolio of almost 2,500 healthcare projects completed to date. Phil’s main priority is to bring design best practice from wherever it is found and deliver it through the global network to the Arup clients. Prior to joining Arup in 1988 Phil worked for seven years at the North West Thames Regional Health Authority in London. Phil is involved in lecturing at the University College of Wales on both the Architectural Engineering and Integrated Engineering multi-discipline project, and has led Arup research sponsorship in infection control and the therapeutic environment. Phil’s primary interest is in the integration of disciplines to achieve a holistic approach to the design of healthcare facilities. Phil is a board member of the Healthcare KTN (Knowledge Transfer Network) In May 2006 Phil was elected as president of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management and will serve in that post for a two year period.

Dr Gunnar Öhlén MD PhD, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
Dr Gunnar Ohlén M.D Phd, President European Society of Emergency Medicine, EuSEM. Medical counsellor for Emergency Care Stockholm County. He is Head of Department of Emergency Medicine at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm Sweden. Dr Ohlen is a specialist in Orthopaedic surgery and has his Ph.D from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. For 11 years he has served as the Head of Department of Emergency Medicine, working extensively during his last two years on a new 600 bed University Hospital project in Stockholm.

Mike Nightingale, Nightingale Associates, UK
For three and a half decades, Mike Nightingale has dedicated his career to elevating the design of healthcare buildings to new levels of excellence. His 36 years of experience have seen him spearhead new design approaches, promote the importance of healthcare design and create guidance documents for the NHS. Following his qualification at the Oxford School of Architecture, Mike’s first job saw him working on Cirencester Community Hospital, for the Oxford Hospital Board, beginning a lifetime of work in healthcare design. After joining Percy Thomas as project architect for Colchester DGH, Mike pioneered several new design approaches and went on to lead a 40 person team creating a health masterplan for Oman, leading to the designing of three new hospitals including the Royal Hospital. In 1989 Mike founded Nightingale Associates to enable him to push the design of health buildings to ever greater heights. In 18 years the practice has grown from two people based in Oxford, to 300 staff working across 12 offices in the UK and South Africa on some of the biggest healthcare projects ever undertaken.

Prof Chang-Ho Moon, Kunsan National University, Korea

Professor Moon is a professor at the Department of Architecture at the Kunsan National University, Korea. He received the degrees of BS, MS and PhD at Seoul National University, Seoul. His thesis was entitled ‘A Study on the Architectural Programming of General Hospital in Korea". As a visiting scholar he has engaged with the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Tokyo, South Bank University, London, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UNSW, Sydney, QUT, Brisbane, and University of Southern California, LA. He has been working within the field of hospital design and planning for more than 20 years. He recently wrote a book entitled, ‘Hospital Architectures in Europe’.

Tye Farrow, Senior Principal, Farrow Partnership Architects, Canada
Tye Farrow is a senior partner of Tye Farrow Partnership Architects and is a leader in creating architecture that lifts the human spirit while advancing clients’ business goals. Drawing on themes from nature, he has designed award-winning projects around the world. His contribution to healthcare design at the Credit Valley Hospital and Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in Canada is viewed internationally as setting a new standard in health care architecture. His approach to the creative process gives clients the courage to join his pursuit of innovative design that demonstrates true compassion for health care patients, staff and families. Tye holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University.

Prof Ian Forbes, director, Group for Health Architecture & Planning, University of Technology, Australia