Richard J Jackson MD, MPH
SPONSORED BY Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. (ESa)ASSOCIATES
Richard Jackson’s passions are health, nature, architecture, creating visions, and protecting children—and he enjoys a good policy scrap. Public health has been good to him. He has worked on pesticide and other chemical effects on children, biomonitoring of the population, building public health strategy and defense systems, and leadership. He has served as chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health, as the CDC National Center for Environmental Health’s director, and as California’s state health officer. Over the past decade much of his work has been on how the 'built environment', including architecture and urban planning, affects health. In 2004 he co-authored Urban Sprawl and Public Health and he recently served on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects. Jackson is working on policy analyses of the public health impacts of environmental threats, ranging from toxic substances, chemical body burdens, terrorism, loss of resources, destructive farm policies, climate change, and bad urban design. He is chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA and learning a lot.
TOPIC: Health — Spanning Disciplines
Agriculture to Architecture, Housing to Transportation
Today’s patient faces an onslaught of challenges— CO2 retention, intermittent fever and paroxysms, depleted resources, and depression. How can we treat more than the symptoms to get the 6 billion (or 360 million) cells of our patient into recovery? Using the public health model of creating healthy conditions, we must span disciplines to create coherent efforts to build healthy, efficient, dense, diverse, livable, safe and green buildings, neighborhoods, towns, and cities. The major health challenges of the 21st century have their start in the environment. Humans create built environments – houses, offices, roads, green spaces and more -- that affect climate, air and water quality, safety and availability of food, and our own bodies. Built environments influence chronic diseases such as diabetes and loss of fitness. Jackson will outline the need for and offer suggestions for design solutions that create multiple benefits rather than more challenges.
NOTE: Nashville Lecture; Video Conference to UT A&A Building
Spanning Disciplines: Agriculture to Architecture, Housing to Transportation from Gary Gaston on Vimeo.
FEBRUARY 17
PANEL DISCUSSION
"Blueprint for a Healthy Nashville"
Panelists:
Dr. Shari Barkin, Marian Wright Edelman Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Obesity Research in the Diabetes Research and Training Center, and Chief of General Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Shari Barkin earned her undergraduate degree at Duke University, her medical degree at University of Cincinnati, and completed her pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCLA and completed a 4 year fellowship in Health Services Research. Her research has focused on examining the effectiveness of pediatric office-based interventions and the development of connections from the office into the community to create sustainable effects on health. She is an NIH-funded researcher in the area of injury prevention and obesity prevention and early intervention. Most recently, she was funded by the NIH to evaluate the use of a recreation center as the extension of a doctor's office to provide early intervention for childhood obesity. She has also been the recipient of a Duke Endowment Grant that supported the building of the Collaborative to Strengthen Families and Neighborhoods- a learning lab to test a new model of community engagement that allows community and academic partners to develop and test meaningful interventions to address pediatric obesity. The Nashville Collaborative was launched in June 2008 in partnership with Metro Parks and Recreation. Building from her NIH studies, she has received a Tennessee State Implementation Grant to test the effect of a community-based family-centered pediatric obesity intervention program for Latino families with young children. Working with the Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker program, Barkin’s team is also developing an approach to decrease excessive weight gain during pregnancy and increase appropriate infant feeding practices. She collaborates with a group of pediatric obesity researchers to develop and test promising approaches to stem the tide of pediatric obesity. Dr. Barkin is a co-investigator for the National Children’s Study and for the Vanderbilt Institute of Clinical and Translational Research. She chairs the National CTSA Pediatric Metrics of Success working group and serves as the Co-Chair of the National CTSA Consortium Child Health Oversight Committee.
Cassi Johnson, MS
Cassi Johnson is the Executive Director of Manna-Food Security Partners, a Nashville-based non-profit organization dedicated to ending hunger and creating a more healthy, just, and sustainable food system for Middle Tennessee. Ms. Johnson has extensive experience in sustainable agriculture and food systems outreach and education, grassroots policy development, local food policy, urban and rural food systems development, and food advocacy coalition and partnership building.
Ms. Johnson holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Agriculture from Iowa State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Studies from Indiana University. She serves on the Executive Board of the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Mayor’s Healthy Nashville Leadership Team, and the Nashville/Davidson County Open Space Advisory Committee.
Leslie Meehan
Leslie Meehan is a native of Nashville, Tennessee and is a transportation planner for the Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). She specializes in policy and planning for bicycle and pedestrian facilities such as bicycle lanes, sidewalks and greenways. She sits on the TN Strategic Highway Safety Committee which plans projects and campaigns to make roads safer for all roadway users. She is co-chair of the TN Obesity Taskforce and works to strengthen the connection between health any physical activity through active transportation.
Dr. William S. Paul, MD, MPH, Director of Health
, Metro Public Health Department of Nashville-Davidson County
Dr. Paul started his Nashville career as Director of Health on July 9, 2007. As Director, Dr. Paul oversees the public health of Nashville’s 600,000+ residents by leading a team of 475 full time employees and managing a budget in excess of $58 million.
Dr. Paul has a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, an MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and a Master in Public Health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and completed a public health fellowship as an Epidemic Intelligence Services officer in the Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases for the CDC.
Dr. Paul has published several articles in peer-reviewed publications and presented at a number of conferences. He is a recipient of a U.S. Public Health Service Unit Citation and Public Health Service Achievement Award, among other honors and awards.
Dr. Paul believes strongly that public health needs to be rooted in science and evidence and also in excellence in management and community engagement. He is working to build both staff and community strengths and capacity to address public health problems. He is comfortable working with a broad and diverse workforce and community on the multifaceted issues of public health.
Moderated by Gary Gaston
Design Director for the Nashville Civic Design Center
TOPIC: Follow-up on Richard Jackson’s Lecture: Health Impact of the Urban and Built Environment
NOTE: Nashville Lecture; Video Conference to UT A&A Building
WAYNE RUGA, PhD, AIA, FIIDA, Hon. FASID
SPONSERED BY BOLUY CARPET AND HFR ARCHITECTS
Wayne Ruga, PhD, AIA, FIIDA, Hon. FASID is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on improving health, healthcare, and quality of life with the design of the environment. For more than three decades, Dr. Ruga has been influencing the mainstream healthcare industry with his pioneering concepts about the environment: first as a practicing architect; then as the founder of both the annual Symposium on Healthcare Design (now the annual Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo, in its 22nd consecutive year) and The Center for Health Design; and now the founder and president of The CARITAS Project.
In recognition of Dr. Ruga’s influential leadership, he was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Today, as a prolific author and conference presenter, Dr. Ruga continues to stimulate progress in the fields of design and healthcare with the findings of his current research project on ‘generative space’. He claims that these original findings will be the conceptual and practical framework for an entire new generation of environmental design. Since early 2007, Dr. Ruga has presented his ‘generative space’ research findings to 18 professional and academic audiences in 4 separate countries.
TOPIC: A new paradigm in healthcare - Improving individual health, organizational performance, and community wellness with a generative space approach
NOTE: Nashville Lecture; Video Conference to UT A&A Building
Marc Sauve’
Author of This is Not a Drill
SPONSORED BY GRESHAM SMITH & PARTNERS (GSP)
Senior Healthcare Strategist, GSP
As a recognized skilled tactician, Marc has extensive professional-level experience in the healthcare industry. In his 12 years with the Mercy system in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he focused on process improvement and organizational development, culminating with responsibility for all capital allocation and space planning. During his subsequent years in healthcare planning and consulting, Marc has provided direction and tactical business plans to healthcare providers of all sizes. Marc received his Master of Business Administration in Quantitative Analysis from Eastern Michigan University and his BA in English Literature from Marquette University.
TOPIC: The Future of Healthcare in America
A Convergence of Undeniable Trends designed to give you a true understanding of the forces affecting healthcare. This lecture will explore factors and historical trends that will set the course of health care for the next 5-10 years. Identifying the real factors that affect healthcare growth and investment and how changing patient acuity, disease rates and staff shortages which impact the work environment.
Rosalyn CAMA, FASID, EDAC,
Author of Evidence-Based Healthcare Design
Roz Cama is the President and Principal Interior Designer of the evidence-based planning and design firm CAMA Incorporated in New Haven, CT. Ms. Cama is a past President of the American Society of Interior Designers, (ASID) and currently serves as Chair of the Board for the Center for Health Design. Ms. Cama holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with Distinction in Interior Design and Textiles from the University of Connecticut. She is a frequent writer and lecturer on the topic of evidence-based healthcare design, and has authored Evidence-Based Healthcare Design, John Wiley and Sons, 2009.
CAMA Incorporated creates interior environments that improve outcomes. Founded in 1983, CAMA uses an evidence-based approach to design interiors that impact an occupant’s quality of life while supporting an organization’s strategic objectives.
TOPIC: Evidence-Based Healthcare Design
This session will address the process used to integrate an Evidence-Based Design into a traditional design process. It will take participants through four components necessary to identify and integrate outcome-based thinking into one’s projects. In doing so it will explore innovative concepts that have developed through the use of this process as well as create a snap shot of new frontiers yet to be studied.
Annette Ridenour
Annette Ridenour has created nationally recognized and award-winning healing environments, arts programs, wayfinding programs, interior design and interpretive display systems for some of the largest and best-known organizations in the United States and Canada. In almost thirty years as a leader in healthcare design, she has collaborated with more than 400 companies, over 200 medical facilities, and numerous major artists and architects from around the world. She founded her design firm, Aesthetics, Inc. in 1980 and specializes in bringing a holistic approach to design of the built environment. Her most recent book, Transforming Healthcare through the Arts was released in December 2009. A sought after lecturer at design conferences worldwide, Annette currently provides journal review and critiques for the Healthcare Environments Research and Design Journal and, Arts and Healthcare Journal and is a member of the Planetree Visionary Design Council.
TOPIC: Transforming Healthcare through the Arts
The Healthcare debate in Congress has sparked national interest about how organizations provide quality healthcare. With over 30 compelling human stories, research-based evidence-based design, and pragmatic advice ground in her many years of experience, Annette Ridenour, takes you inside the process of transforming the healthcare experience through the arts. “Art projects and programs are not architectural add-ons or fringe niceties. They are an essential part of core design and dramatically affect patience care outcome,” says Leland Kaiser, Ph.D, Healthcare Futurist. Be prepared to learn about some of the most effective and successful art programs and practical actions steps for any healthcare organization that is seeking to integrate a healing arts program into the design of their facility.
Jane Rohde, AIA, FIIDA, AAHID, ACHA, LEED AP
Jane Rohde is the principal and founder of JSR Associates, Inc., a senior living and healthcare consulting firm providing the following services; client focus groups for creative program and care model development, innovative funding strategies, and design and project management services based on evidence based research, sustainable design principles, and resident focused/patient centered programming.
Jane sits on the Research Advisory Council and the Environmental Standards Council; both part of The Center for Health Design. Jane is the former Vice President of the Board of Regents for the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers (AAHID) and sits on the Health Guidelines Revision Committee (HGRC) for the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities. Jane speaks nationally and internationally on senior living, aging, healthcare, evidence based design and sustainability.
TOPIC: Four Dimensions— Creating Sustainable Senior Living
Sustainability has become a critical focus for designers and operators of senior living settings. Four essential dimensions have emerged that are critical to creating true sustainable practice. These dimensions are: (1) Resident Quality of Life, (2) Organizational Values and Vision, (3) Operations, and (4) Physical Setting. This session will reveal a process for sustainable senior settings drafted by a volunteer group that is committed to creating improved environments for seniors. This session will reveal a process for sustainable senior settings drafted by a volunteer group that is committed to creating improved environments for seniors. Participants will understand basic concepts for achieving sustainability in each dimension, learn how to begin moving the process forward, and apply the draft document, Senior Living Sustainability Guide, to senior living projects.
