As a healthcare architect, I advocate for evidence based solutions and rely on data and metrics as credible resources for planning.  I believe the challenge and joy of architecture comes from discovering ways to blend fact with emotional need to create one of a kind places for others to inhabit.  However data often changes in medicine.  So do living beings and their needs.

Design is not an isolated practice. To succeed, we must share our knowledge of best practices, trends, and experience to test new ideas for the future.  Incorporating unique and new goals to a project hat may not have been done before.  Through good nature and gut instincts beautiful places can come to fruition.

I believe that healthcare design is more than than building hospitals and clinics.  Healthcare is in everything we design from our cities and neighborhoods to the products we use to sustain them.  The aspiration for global health is no isolated undertaking, creatives and clinicians must work together to fix the errs of our previous constructed ways.  Good design comes from thoughtful response to complex problems and we live in a time when there are many to address.

I’m both thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to help pioneer design trends that improve the lives of those we serve today as well as help prepare as best I can for the future.