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Travel Bug: Medical Tourism And The Role Of Design
You likely know Morgan Spurlock as the guy who taught us all to pass on extra fries in his 2004 Academy Award-winning documentary “Super Size Me.” In the film, Spurlock challenged himself to only eat McDonald’s food for one month, documenting the effects the diet had on his health and overall well-being.
FIRST LOOK: University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein Modernization Project
Valued at approximately $1.9 billion (€1.7 billion), the massive modernization of the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein’s (UKSH) Kiel and Lübeck campuses is the largest public-private partnership (P3) project in Germany.
The BAM/VAMED P3 team is charged with bringing it to life, including design, construction, maintenance, and operation.
FIRST LOOK: Memorial Sloan Kettering Josie Robertson Surgery Center
Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center has dedicated more than 130 years to cancer care, with its latest step a ground-up build of the Josie Robertson Surgery Center in New York.
MSK tapped innovation studio Icrave (New York) to provide experiential design and programming for the building designed by Perkins Eastman (New York). (See below for additional project team members.)
The HCD 10: ZGF Architects LLP, Outstanding Organization
ZGF Architects LLP
The HCD 10: Sam Moses, Building Professional
Sam Moses
Superintendent, Balfour Beatty Construction (Dallas)
The HCD 10: George Mann, Educator
George Mann, AIA
Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA, Endowed Professor of Health Facilities Design, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas)
The HCD 10: Jennie Evans, Association/Foundation Executive
Jennie Evans, RN, BS, EDAC, LEED AP, Lean Six Sigma CE
2013-2014 president, Nursing Institute of Healthcare Design (NIHD); associate principal and senior vice president, HKS (Dallas)
The HCD 10: Paul Strohm, Architect
A Multidisciplinary Design Approach To Solving The Healthcare Challenge
I think there are plenty of us out there who learn by doing. And it seems to me that design of all fields is one that requires getting your hands dirty.
But learning sometimes requires having a few partners in crime, too. After all, none of us work in silos, and bringing a hands-on, multidisciplinary approach to just about any project isn’t just beneficial to the project but to the level of knowledge gained by those participating in it.
