Mr. Phil Nedin, Healthcare Busniness Leader, ARUP,UK

Dr. Gunnar Ohlén, MD. Ph.D. Karolinska Institut,Sweden
Prof. Töres Theorell, MD. Ph.D. Karolinska Institut, Sweden.
Prof. Lüder Clausdorff, University of Gissen, Germany
Prof. Paul Robertson, Kingston University, U.K.
Mr. Mike Nightingale Associates, U.K.
Mrs. Marily Cintra, The Art for Health Research Center, Australia
Dr. Martti Teikari, Finnish Office for Health Care Technology, Finland
Prof. Chang-Ho Moon, Kunsan National University Korea
Mr.Tye Farrow, Senior Principal, Tye Farrow, Canada
Prof. Roberto Bologna, Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence, Italy
Prof. Ian Forbes, GHD Architecture in Sydney, Australia
Mr. Derek Parker, Senior Principal, Anshen+Allen, USA

Mr. John Wells-Thorpe, South Downs Health, NHS, U.K.

Mr. David Stark, Managing Director of Keppie Design, U.K.

Mr. Peter Scher, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Mrs. Diana Anderson, B.Sc.(Arch), M.Arch., MD, University of Toronto,Canada

Mr. Michael Moxam, Stantec Architects, Toronto, Canada

Mrs. Nadia Tobia, Perkins Eastman Black Architects, Toronto, Canada

Mrs. Alice Liang, Montgomery Sisam Architects, Toronto, Canada

Prof. James Barlow, Imperial College London, UK.

Phil Nedin, Director / 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. Ph.D.,

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.

Prof. Töres Theorell, Ph.D. M.D.

Dr. Theorell received his M.D. in 1967 and his Ph.D. in 1971 at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He has been working clinically for eleven years in internal medicine, general practice, social medicine and occupational medicine. His thesis studied the relationship between critical life events and the risk of myocardial infarction. He is a professor of psychosocial medicine at the Karolinska Institutet as well as director of the National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health. He has more than 400 scientific publications dealing with physiological stress mechanisms and psychosocial risk factors for myocardial infarction, hypertension, functional gastrointestinal disorders as well as intervention trials in the psychosocial field.

Prof. Lüder Clausdorff, Arch.

Lüder Clausdorff is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Giessen at the department of hospital and medicine engineering, environmental- and Biotechnology. He is also a lecturer as well as the chairman for the Academy of Public Health in Dusseldorf, the special committee for German standards in hospital building. He is a practicing architect engaged in planning, expert reports and consultation. Professor Clausdorff is also involved in the development of strategies and methods for master planning and redevelopment planning.

Prof. Paul Robertson

Prof. Robertson has been the leader of the world-renowned Medici String Quartet, of which he was a founder member, for more than 30 years. He combines an international concert career with his passion for exploring the basis of musical response through scientific research. He is a visiting professor of music and psychiatry at Kingston University. Over the past ten years his research has led him into the field of neurology, and together with consultant neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick, he has developed a new concept of how music and brain function correlate and synthesis. Paul Robertson's Music and Mind presentations have been performed at the Medical Society of London; the Royal Society of Psychiatry; the American Society of Radiology and the Institute of Psychiatry in Copenhagen.

Mike Nightingale

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, MDes

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’.

Dr. Martti Teikari, Ph.D. M.D. Arch.

Dr.Teikari has university degrees both in medicine and in architecture with several years practical working experience in both professions. His special field of interest and knowledge is planning and evaluation of facilities for social welfare and health care. He has published an extensive post-occupancy evaluation study on Finnish general hospitals, titled, ‘Hospital Facilities as Work Environments’. At present he works as a medical officer in the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES) in Helsinki, Finland, concentrating on issues of health care technology assessment.

Prof. Chang-Ho Moon Ph.D. Arch

Professor Moon is a professor at the Department of Architecture at the Kunsan National University, Korea. He received the degrees of B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. 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 B. Arch., M. Arch.U.D

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, Ph.D.

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

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.

John Wells-Thorpe, OBE, RIBA

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, FRIBA

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.

Peter Scher, B.A. RIBA

Peter Scher is an architect with extensive experience (Partner in The GTD Partnership) designing TV studios, university buildings, schools, housing and many health care projects for the UK’s National Health Service, the independent sector and for overseas clients. Scher currently practices as an independent architect, consultant and researcher. He was editorial consultant to Hospital Development journal for more than 20 years, has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Arts for Health at the Manchester Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Art and Design and a member of the Design Review panel of the Department of Health in the UK. Other work includes the seminal discussion paper on Environmental Design Quality in Health Care (1992), Study and Video of Patient-Focused Architecture for Health Care (1996) for the Arts Council of England, The Exeter Evaluation (1999) of a major hospital arts project and co-author of the book 50 Years of Ideas in Health Care Buildings (1999) for The Nuffield Trust.

Diana Anderson, Arch. M.D.

Diana Anderson is currently a last year medical student at the University of Toronto. She earned both her undergraduate and graduate architectural degrees at McGill University in Montreal. For her master’s thesis in architecture, she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning and Design by the American Institute of Architects and the American Hospital Association. Her hospital design proposal for the McGill University Health Center was presented at the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health 2004 conference. Diana was also awarded a McGill traveling scholarship on completion of her master’s degree, allowing her to visit and study a number of North American hospitals. Over the past year, she has researched evidence-based design in the field of palliative care.

Michael Moxam, B.E.S., M.Arch., OAA, MRAIC, Assoc. AIA

Mr. Moxam is Design Principal of Stantec Architects Inc., 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, Mr. Moxam 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. Mr. 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.

Nadia Tobia, M.Sc. Arch.

Nadia Tobia is a Principal with Perkins Eastman Black Architect, Nadia Tobia has more than 25 years of experience in the architectural industry.  Ms. Tobia 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.  Internationally renowned, Ms. Tobia has completed projects in Iraq, Ireland, China, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, in addition to North America.  A frequent public speaker, Ms. Tobia has given numerous presentations to healthcare professionals on the impact of design on the healing process.  Her recent projects include the Specialist Hospital in Ras Al Khaimah UAE ,Shanghai International Medical Zone (SIMZ) in Shanghai, China; the Trillium Health Centre Q-site Toronto Canada, and the United Nations “HABITAT” project.  She has been a member of the International Academy of Design and Health since 2000.

Alice Liang, Ba Arch. Arch.

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

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.