Speakers Redesigning the Neonatal ICU 2014
Confirmed Speakers:
Oct. 9, 2014
Dr. White has had a long-standing interest in the effect of the NICU environment on babies, families, and caregivers with many publications on that topic. He is chairman of the Consensus Committee that develops Recommended Standards for Newborn ICU Design, co-chair of the annual Gravens Conference on the Physical and Developmental Environment of the High-Risk Newborn, and chairman of the International Conference on Brain Monitoring and Neuroprotection in the Newborn. He has appointments at the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. White will be speaking about the evolution of NICU design standards, as well as the importance of design in supporting developmental care.
Oct. 14, 2014
Dr. Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, B.A., M.Arch., M.A. (psychology), D.Arch., FAIA, FACHA, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C, is a professor and director of the Center for Health Systems & Design at Texas A&M University. A registered architect with 25-years of experience in professional practice, she is founder of ART+Science, a design research consulting firm. Mardelle has conducted research and published extensively on the topics of post-occupancy evaluation, pediatric facilities, behavioral health, sustainability and health facility design. Her books include: Healthcare Environments for Children and their Families, Design for Critical Care, and Health Facility Evaluation for Design Practitioners and Design for Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care. A specialist in building evaluation and programming, she holds the Skaggs-Sprague endowed chair at the College of Architecture at Texas A&M.
Mardelle will be speaking via Skype about the history of NICU design.
Oct. 21st & 23rd, 2014
Architect Tammy Thompson is the president and founder of Institute for Patient-Centered Design, Inc., a nonprofit organization established to give patients a voice in the design of health environments. Personal experience as a patient fuels her advocacy for compassionate healthcare design. Through collaborative efforts with patients, clinicians and designers, she offers innovative solutions to current challenges within health facilities. She has authored and coauthored numerous articles on patient-centered design subjects. Tammy is the creator of the Patient Experience Simulation Lab, an interactive learning experience that enables healthcare designers to view the healthcare environment from the patient’s perspective. As a result, she has been recognized nationally for educating designers and hospital stakeholders on key design strategies that empower patients and their families to receive desired outcomes. Last year, she was named Healthcare Design Magazine’s first “HCD 10 Association/Foundation Executive, and she was honored with Engineering News Record’s Top 20 Under 40 distinction. Tammy is proud to serve as a patient advocate at the design table.
Tammy will provide an overview of NICU facility design, highlighting the importance of accommodating NICU families by integrating product and facility design. She will also conduct a 2-day design charrette to inspire solutions that are based on NICU family feedback.
Oct. 28, 2014
Dennis Boyle is a Partner and a founding member of IDEO. Based in the firm’s Palo Alto offices, Dennis helps lead the Health and Wellness side of IDEO’s business, which works with clients in the medical and consumer health-care industries to develop innovative products, services and strategies for treating disease and promoting healthy living and behavior change. Over the course of his IDEO career, Dennis has worked as a design engineer, a project leader, a business relationship leader, a studio leader, and a practice leader. He has helped us build and nurture many key, long-term client relationships, including Silicon Valley tech firms, Fortune 100 consumer businesses, and health-care companies. He has been named on more than 55 patents. Dennis helped to shape IDEO’s approach to teaching design thinking through workshops. He also created the TechBox at IDEO, a collection of tools used for creative problem-solving, research, and in communication both inside and outside the company. Dennis is a consulting assistant professor for the Design Division of Stanford University’s Mechanical Engineeringdepartment, where he’s contributed to courses on product, engineering, and human factors design, as well as design for sustainability and creativity and innovation. He established and co-teaches “Design Thinking for Better Health” at the d.school, a course that draws students from each of the university’s graduate schools. In this class students are placed on teams that work directly with individual patients to promote healthy behaviors in order to avoid or slow the onset of long-term chronic illnesses. For elementary and high school students, Dennis has helped start after school programs, such as the Tech Challenge at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. The goals of these programs have been to enable kids to experience and solve engineering problems through hands-on design thinking and building projects. Dennis holds a BS in mechanical engineering, with an emphasis on industrial design, from the University of NotreDame and an MS in product design from Stanford. He is married to Peggy Burke, founder of 1185 Design, and has two sons.
Dennis will be sharing various projects IDEO has worked on in the healthcare space so students can understand the process multidisciplinary design teams goes through to develop meaningful solutions.
Nov. 4th 2014
Louis P. Halamek, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Louis P. Halamek, M.D., is a Professor in the Medical Center Professoriate in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Center for Aviation Safety Research and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Aviation in the Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at St. Louis University. He is a graduate of the Creighton University School of Medicine and completed residency and chief residency in Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center followed by fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Stanford University. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both Pediatric Medicine and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has a clinical appointment at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford where he works in the level IV neonatal intensive care unit.
Through his activities with the annual Safety Across High Consequences Industries Conference sponsored by St. Louis University and ongoing collaboration with colleagues at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Dr. Halamek has learned the benefits of a cross-industries approach to risk assessment, safety and effectiveness. His current work centers on the optimization of human performance, analysis of human and system error, and the use of research and training methodologies such as simulation. In 2002 Dr. Halamek founded the Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education (CAPE, http://www.cape.lpch.org), the world’s first such center dedicated to fetal, neonatal, pediatric and obstetric simulation, located at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital on the campus of Stanford University. He is currently a Special Consultant in Simulation- and Virtual Reality-based Learning to the U.S. Neonatal Resuscitation Program.
Dr. Halamek will be discussing the role of simulation and debriefing in industries where the risk to human life is high, focusing on its current and potential future applications in healthcare.
Nov. 4th 2014
Parvati Dev, PhD, is President of Innovation in Learning Inc., and co-creator of CliniSpace, IIL’s award-winning virtual medical environment for healthcare training. She has extensive academic and corporate experience in developing technology solutions applied to life sciences learning and research problems. While at CEMAX Inc., she developed the first commercially available 3D reconstructive imaging system for surgical planning and radiologic imaging. At Stanford University she founded and ran an internationally recognized learning technologies lab, SUMMIT, with awards and firsts in multimedia, web and simulation for medical education, and numerous peer-reviewed publications. At Innovation in Learning, she and her team are creating the next generation of immersive simulation environments for healthcare. She has won numerous grants from federal and private agencies, has published extensively, and is a noted speaker on education technologies.
Dr. Dev will be discussing Clinispace, and the role virtual technology plays in education for medical students.
Nov. 4th, 2014
William LeRoy Heinrichs, MD, MS, PhD, FACOG
W.L. Heinrichs, MD, Ph.D. Josiah Macy, Jr. Faculty Fellow, ACOG & Satava Awardee (MMVR); Past Chair, NIH HED Study Section; Stanford University (Professor & Chair/Ob/Gyn–1976 – ‘94. At SUMMIT, pioneered surgical simulators (skills) & with Dr. Dev, virtual learning environments (VLEs) for teaching patient safety. Co-founded Innovation in Learning, Inc. 2008, producing two award-winning products, CliniSpaceTM and BattleCareTM both selected as First & Grand Prize (categories of “Artificial Intelligence in Training” & “Concept Design”) in the FVWChallenge at GameTech 2011 & 2012. In IIL, serves as Chief Medical Officer.
Dr. Heinrichs will describe the fetal development process that ‘grows’ our neonates in a presentation called ‘Before the NICU’.
Nov. 6, 2014
Founder of DesignWise Medical Inc.
Brad will speak about the process for creating a closed loop neonatal oxygen control system, and generally what it takes to bring a new product for the NICU to market. Via Skype.