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 comittee
• Prof Yeunsook Lee, PhD Korea. International Adviser
• Prof Jacqueline Vischer, PhD, Canada. International Adviser
• Prof Romano Del Nord, Italy, International Adviser
• Lord Nigel Crisp, UK, House of Lords
• Charlie Olofsson, Sweden, IT Director and technical advisor

Prof Alan Dilani PhD, General Director, Sweden

Dr Dilani is a founder and general director of the International Academy for Design and Health (IADH). He has been engaged worldwide in several universities in the field of Design and Health developing, Psychosocially Supportive Design Programs in both 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 Institutet, Medical University is based on a multidisciplinary approach, leading to the new definition of design that not only fosters functional efficiency, but also improves health processes. He is the author of numerous articles and books in the field of design and health including, ‘Design and Care in Hospital Planning’, and is the editor of the book, ‘Design and Health - The Therapeutic Benefits of Design’. Professor Dilani is also the head of the research center for Design and Health in Stockholm.

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.

James Benham, Marketing Director, UK
James joined the International Academy for Design and Health in September 2009 as Director of Marketing. Having qualified with the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the early nineties, James went on to become the Head of Publishing and Marketing at Binley’s, a leading supplier of health and social care information in the UK. In 2007 and 2008, James directed the prestigious Building Better Healthcare Awards and numerous successful conferences in the field of healthcare and the built environment. With a thorough understanding of the NHS and healthcare systems and over 13 years experience in media, publishing and events, James brings extensive knowledge and commercial experience to the Academy.

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’.

Prof Romano Del Nord, International advisor, Italy
Romano Del Nord is professor at the University of Architecture in Florence, Italy and director of the Building Production Department. He serves as a director for The Interuniversity Research Center (TESIS), a research and teaching program on healthcare facilities. He is also engaged as a consultant for the Ministry of Public Health developing regulations and guidelines for hospital design. The center has conducted research on "wayfinding, humanisation, space pathologies" and the impact of new technology on the planning of healthcare facilities. He owns the architecture firm CSPE Architects in Florence, designing various types of healthcare facilities.

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 is, since 2005, working as an IT-consultant/Project Manager, specialising in IT-security, and has experience, among other appointments, as Operations Manager for the Stockholm city network.

The International Advisory Board is composed of the following:

• Phil Nedin, Healthcare Business Leader, ARUP, UK
• Dr Gunnar Ohlen, MD. PhD Karolinska Institut,Sweden
• Mike Nightingale, Nightingale Associates, UK
• Marily Cintra, The Art for Health Research Center, Australia
• Prof Chang-Ho Moon, Kunsan National University Korea
• Tye Farrow, Senior Principal, Tye Farrow, Canada
• Prof Roberto Bologna, Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence, Italy
• 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.
• David Stark, Managing Director of Keppie Design, UK
• Diana Anderson, BSc (Arch), M.Arch., MD, WHR Architects, USA
• Michael Moxam, Stantec Architects, Toronto, Canada
• Alice Liang, Montgomery Sisam Architects, Toronto, Canada
• Prof James Barlow, Imperial College London, UK
• Prof 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 Ohlén MD PhD, Karolinska Institut, 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.

Marily Cintra, The Art for Health Research Center, Australia
Marily Cintra is a visual artist and cultural activist since 1967. She has a Master of Design from the University of South Australia. Cintra is the founder and director of Identity, Environment & Art, an arts organisation with a focus on community participation in the design of public places. Identity won the 1997 Australia Council for the Arts award ‘Community, Environment, Art and Design’ for its work at Liverpool Hospital described as "a model of innovation and creative place-making”. In 1998, she founded, The Arts for Health Research Centre, to support the development of critical debate within the convergence of health, medicine and the arts in Australia. Cintra won the 1998 New South Wales Women and the Arts Fellowship for her work in arts and health. She has also coordinated arts and cultural plans in eight hospitals in Australia and developed a model for evaluation of public art in health care, entitled, ‘Liverpool Hospital Redevelopment Arts Program Post Occupancy Evaluation’.

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 Roberto Bologna, Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence, Italy

Prof Roberto Bologna is an associate professor of Technology of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence. He works at the Department of Technology of Architecture and Design "P. Spadolini" (TAeD) and at the Interuniversity Research Centre TESIS "Systems and technologies for health care buildings" both on teaching and research programmes. Research activities cover the fields of health care design (alzheimer), regulation and design guidelines for health care and social buildings and temporary architecture for social needs (concept of reversibility of the building process and its implications). He is a member of the coordinating committee of the Doctorate of Research in Technology of Architecture at the Dep. TAeD and of the CIB Commission W82, ‘Futures studies in construction’.

Prof Ian Forbes, GHD Architecture, Sydney, Australia

Ian Forbes is a practicing architect at GHD Architecture in Sydney, which is one of Australia’s largest architectural and planning practices. GHD Architecture is a world wide engineering firm with over 5000 staff in 46 cities and 14 countries, but with a strong base in the field of architecture and a steadily growing health portfolio in global markets. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. He has been planning and developing health facilities for 30 years in Australia, Canada, Africa, Asia and various Pacific Countries and is a regular consultant to the World Health Organisation, Asian Development Bank, and AusAID. His current interests involve advancing the concepts of healthy built environments within health facilities.

Derek Parker, Senior Principal, Anshen+Allen, USA

Derek Parker is on the board of directors of Anshen+Allen Architects (www.anshen.com), with offices in San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, and Salt Lake City and chairman of Anshen & Allen in London. An internationally recognised expert in the design of healthcare and research facilities, Parker has designed and planned over 50 major hospitals, diagnostic care centers, hospices, and medical research institutes in his 45 years with the firm. A registered architect in the UK and in many States in the US, Parker is designing projects in the US, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, Philippines, England, Italy, and Turkey. He has speaking engagements worldwide. Derek Parker currently serves on the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) of the National Research Council; The Center for Health Design; the Laguna Honda Foundation; the Practicum faculty for the doctoral program at the University of Hawaii; and the advisory faculty for doctoral programs at the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech.

John Wells-Thorpe, Architectural Historian, Writer and Consultant, UK

John Wells-Thorpe was Honorary Librarian and Vice President of the Royal Institute of British Architects before becoming President of the Commonwealth Association of Architects. He was in private practice until becoming the first chairman of South Downs Health NHS Trust, UK, and subsequently initiated and chaired a three year research program for NHS Estates to examine, ‘The Architectural Healthcare Environment and its Effects on Patient Health Outcomes’. He is a member of the NHS Design Review Panel and advises the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment. He has chaired Government independent inquiries into a) ophthalmic surgery and b) adolescent homicide.

 
David Stark, Managing Director, Keppie Design, UK

David Stark is managing director of Keppie Design, an architectural practice founded in 1854. It has been designing hospital buildings since before the British National Health Service started. The current massive reconstruction of the health estate in the UK has introduced a number of new initiatives in which the practice has gained expertise – Public Private Partnerships, Local Investment Finance Trusts and ProCure 21. David has been at the forefront of developing these procurement initiatives. As well as advising public and private sector clients on major projects in Edinburgh (the Royal Infirmary and the Western General), Leeds, Blackburn, Wakefield, Pontefract, Birmingham, and Glasgow (ambulatory care centres), David has been working in conjunction with the Prince’s Foundation, the Centre for Health Architectural Design (CHAD) and the University of Sheffield in highlighting the qualitative aspects of new projects, and testing design evaluation tools. 

 
Diana Anderson, BSc (Arch), MArch., MD, WHR Architects, USA

Diana Anderson received both her undergraduate and graduate architecture degrees from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. For her master’s thesis in architecture, she was awarded an AIA Arthur N. Tuttle Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning and Design. Her hospital design proposal for the McGill University Health Center was presented at the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health 2004 conference. Diana then went on to earn a medical degree from the University of Toronto. Upon graduation from medical school, she was awarded the Tradewell Fellowship at WHR Architects in Houston, Texas, to pursue healthcare design and medical planning. Diana was also a recipient of the Design & Health Research Award at the 5th World Congress event in Glasgow, Scotland, for her exploration of palliative care unit design. She continues to work at WHR Architects as a medical planner and maintains a strong involvement in evidence-based design research.

 
Michael Moxam, Stantec Architects, Toronto, Canada

Michael Moxam is Design Principal of Stantec Architects, an innovative design firm specializing in the design of acute care facilities. With over 20 years experience in the design and planning of complex project types, Michael maintains a strong commitment to design excellence and to redefining the “type” in acute care design. His recent design work in acute care has focused on the creation of fully integrated community facilities and the creation of staff and patient-centred environments. Moxam is the Design Principal for the new 529 bed Peterborough Regional Health Centre in Peterborough, Ontario, the redevelopment of the University Health Network’s Toronto Western Hospital and the redevelopment of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance in Chatham, Ontario.

 
Alice Liang, Montgomery Sisam Architects, Toronto, Canada

Alice Liang has over 20 years experience in health care planning and design, consultation and project management. A Principal of Montgomery Sisam Architects, Alice’s most recent projects have focused around innovative approaches to rehabilitation and mental health. Currently, she is leading a consortium of three firms designing the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a 27 acre multi-use healthcare, research and academic "urban village" in downtown Toronto, Canada. Alice received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto in 1977 and is a member of the Ontario Association of Architects and the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada.
 

Prof James Barlow, Imperial College London, UK

James Barlow is a Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at Imperial College London. He is also a Director of HaCIRIC – Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre. He was educated at the London School of Economics. James’ research interests are on the implementation of innovation in complex sectors of the economy, especially the healthcare and construction sectors. In recent years he has worked primarily on the way technology and service innovation is changing the balance between acute and community care. He has extensive experience advising government and industry on policy and innovation issues in healthcare, including the Department of Health, Department of Trade and Industry, Audit Commission and European Commission. He is an elected member of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Telemedicine and e-Health Council. James has published widely and is the author of over 100 papers or reports and four major books.

Prof Mikael Paatela LicSc, Architect SAFA, Managing Director, Sweco Paatela Architects Oy, Finland
Mikael Paatela has over 30 years of experience as an architect in the design of hospitals, health centers and facilities for elderly care both in Finland and abroad. Having worked till 2007 as the chief design architect and managing director of Paatela-Paatela Architects, a firm specialized in hospital and health care design for over 80 years, he is now the chief architect and managing director of Sweco Paatela Architects. Additionally he works as the health care architecture advisor for Sweco Architects Ab, a Swedish architectural firm with over 400 employees. He has designed several university hospitals, both new buildings and renovations for eg. Helsinki and Turku university hospital districts, the latest being the app. 500.000 cu.m. T-hospital in Turku which is partly completed and partly under construction in 2009. He has also designed hospitals and health centers for other health care districts and cities, and elderly care facilities for public and private clients. The most modern design principles of the 2000’s are presented in these latest projects. In addition to projects realized in Finland he has designed hospitals and other health and elderly care projects overseas eg. in Russia, China, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Somalia, Namibia, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Vanuatu and Japan. He has also given lectures in several international seminars and worked as a consultant for eg. the Ministry of Health, China and the World Health Organization WHO.
 

Nadia Tobia, Principal, Perkins Eastman International, Toronto, Canada
A principal with Perkins Eastman International, Nadia Tobia has more than 25 years of experience. Nadia received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Baghdad University and holds a Masters degree in Architecture from University College in Dublin. Her expertise is in urban and master planning, programming, and large-scale projects specifically in healthcare and hospitality sector. Ms. Tobia has completed projects in Iraq, Ireland, China, and United Arab Emirates, in addition to Canada and with UN - HABITAT. Ms Tobia is the firms health care practice leader for the Middle East and has been responsible for the direction and design of several hospitals in the region. A frequent public speaker, Ms. Tobia has given numerous presentations on design solutions for health care projects. Her recent projects include the Sheikh Khalifa Specialist Hospital in Ras al Khiamah and Al Maktoum Hospital Dubai, UAE. She has participated in the International Academy of Design and Health events and been a member since 2000.