Clinicians for Design
Clinicians for Design (CfD) is an international network of leaders with a vision to inspire and accelerate the design of environments and systems, enriching the healthcare interface. CfD offers a unique forum for clinicians to apply their insights and experience to the design of settings and systems that serve medical practice. Its mission is to engage clinical professionals in research, education and practice, to inform the design of healthcare spaces, delivery, technologies, systems and policies to enhance patient outcomes.
By tapping into the knowledge created by healthcare and research professionals, we may facilitate the next tipping point in medicine, and challenge the stated norms for health and care design. Through the creation of shared knowledge, we inspire the emergence of a new mode of practice. The integration of healthcare, science and design perspectives will inform the development of tools and a knowledge-base that will help to shape the future of hospitals, medicine and healthcare. The design and healthcare teams may together serve each other and our patients.
Clinicians for Design was co-founded by Drs Anderson and Edelstein. As a board-certified healthcare architect and internal medicine physician, Diana Anderson, MD, a “dochitect”, combines educational and professional experience in medicine and architecture. Eve Edelstein, PhD, F-AAA, a “neuro-architect”, applies her research with the University College London, and clinical service with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, among others, in her work as director of the Human Experience Lab at Perkins+Will.
By tapping into the knowledge created by healthcare and research professionals, we may facilitate the next tipping point in medicine, and challenge the stated norms for health and care design. Through the creation of shared knowledge, we inspire the emergence of a new mode of practice. The integration of healthcare, science and design perspectives will inform the development of tools and a knowledge-base that will help to shape the future of hospitals, medicine and healthcare. The design and healthcare teams may together serve each other and our patients.
Clinicians for Design was co-founded by Drs Anderson and Edelstein. As a board-certified healthcare architect and internal medicine physician, Diana Anderson, MD, a “dochitect”, combines educational and professional experience in medicine and architecture. Eve Edelstein, PhD, F-AAA, a “neuro-architect”, applies her research with the University College London, and clinical service with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, among others, in her work as director of the Human Experience Lab at Perkins+Will.
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Diana Anderson, MD and Eve Edelstein, PhD, F-AAA
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